Re^4: SMTP e-mail 530 authenication problem

I understand the comment about * and passwords but how do I type the password in and get *'s. I have looked
in my Perl books but cannto see a way of doing this
I have also looked in the SMTP.pm module and found that auth
required the Authen:SASL module.
I downloaded and stored VERSION = "2.12"
I got further but then found the next error of
Cannot find a SASL Connection library at .../SMTP.pm line 145
This line and the ones either side are

    # currently know and SASL mechanisms that are used by smtp that ne
+ed it
    my $client = $sasl->client_new('smtp',${*$self}{'net_smtp_host'},0
+);
    my $str    = $client->client_start;
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Any idea where to go next?

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Re^5: SMTP e-mail 530 authenication problem by ig (Vicar) on Jun 21, 2009 at 00:47 UTC
It appears you have not installed either Authen::SASL::Cyrus or Authen::SASL::Perl. If you install one of these then you should be able to use the auth method of Net::SMTP. Authen::SASL::Cyrus is based on the Cyrus SASL C library while Authen::SASL::Perl is pure Perl. You might try installing Authen::SASL::Perl first.	[reply]
Re^5: SMTP e-mail 530 authenication problem by Anonymous Monk on Jun 19, 2009 at 14:06 UTC
How do I ask the user for a password?	[reply]
Re^5: SMTP e-mail 530 authenication problem by Anonymous Monk on Jun 19, 2009 at 14:08 UTC
Any idea where to go next? Start again :) show your code, debug output	[reply]