NAME

Authen::Simple::SMTP - Simple SMTP authentication

SYNOPSIS

    use Authen::Simple::SMTP;
    
    my $smtp = Authen::Simple::FTP->new( 
        host => 'smtp.company.com'
    );
    
    if ( $smtp->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
        # successfull authentication
    }
    
    # or as a mod_perl Authen handler
    
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::SMTP
    PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleSMTP_host "smtp.company.com"
    <Location /protected>
      PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::SMTP
      AuthType          Basic
      AuthName          "Protected Area"
      Require           valid-user
    </Location>

DESCRIPTION

Authenticate against a SMTP service.

METHODS

•

new

This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:

•

authenticate( $username, $password )

Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.

Net::SMTP.

AUTHOR

Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com"

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.