# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 1161169892 0
# Node ID 6018dbb5896c936ba81a0b893c092894470eb9fd
# Parent  5eddbe5650626fafffc55c58325633c24f1c5301
Comment change.

diff -r 5eddbe565062 -r 6018dbb5896c lisp/mail/smtpmail.el
--- a/lisp/mail/smtpmail.el	Wed Oct 18 11:02:31 2006 +0000
+++ b/lisp/mail/smtpmail.el	Wed Oct 18 11:11:32 2006 +0000
@@ -541,6 +541,17 @@
 		 (decoded (base64-decode-string challenge))
 		 (hash (rfc2104-hash 'md5 64 16 passwd decoded))
 		 (response (concat (smtpmail-cred-user cred) " " hash))
+		 ;; Osamu Yamane <yamane@green.ocn.ne.jp>:
+		 ;; SMTP auth fails because the SMTP server identifies
+		 ;; only the first part of the string (delimited by
+		 ;; new line characters) as a response from the
+		 ;; client, and the rest as distinct commands.
+
+		 ;; In my case, the response string is 80 characters
+		 ;; long.  Without the no-line-break option for
+		 ;; base64-encode-sting, only the first 76 characters
+		 ;; are taken as a response to the server, and the
+		 ;; authentication fails.
 		 (encoded (base64-encode-string response t)))
 	    (smtpmail-send-command process (format "%s" encoded))
 	    (if (or (null (car (setq ret (smtpmail-read-response process))))