Hi Monks and Jenda,

I've done a quite uncertain hack and need advise.

I use Mail::Sender and need auth with "LOGIN" protocol. But when I use it. It's directly jump to QUIT.

After about an hour of study, I found that my mail server response me AUTH=LOGIN on say hello stage,
so that sub say_helo couldn't phrase it with $self->{'supports'} = {map {split /\s+/, $_, 2} split /\n/, $res};.

Then I added this $myMailObj->{'auth_protocols'}{LOGIN} => 1; in my script and then it runs.

But my questions are :

• I guess this (say_helo()) is the first place where {'auth_protocols'} formed, is that correct?
• Is that just ok at all? Any potential threats I done in this way?
• Did I missed some interface/method I can do it in a safer manner?
• Or am I safe by just change the \s+ to \W+?

Thank you very much!

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