Hi Richard,

Thanks for reporting.
I don't think the network packages are maintained by somebody... but  
any bug in the image should be addressed. I suggest to report the  
problem and your fix on Mantis. This will increase the chance that it  
gets fixed eventually.

Cheers,
Adrian

On Nov 14, 2007, at 22:06 , Richard Eng wrote:

> Apparently, no one uses SMTPClient because there is a bug that has  
> lingered
> for ages. Using it raises the following Squeak error message:
>
> TelnetProtocolError: 501 malformed auth input (#5.5.4)
>
> Here's my test Squeak method:
>
> mailTo: userAddress subject: subject text: text
>     | client |
>     client := SMTPClient openOnHostNamed: 'host_mail_server' port: 25.
>     client user: 'my_user_id'; password: 'my_password'; login;
> initiateSession.
>     client mailFrom: 'my_email_address';
>         recipient: userAddress;
>         data: text.
>     client quit.
>
> I managed to find a fix. In the #encodeString: method of the  
> #SMTPClient in
> the Network-Protocols package, amend the last statement to read:
>
>     ^ str truncateTo: (str size - 2)
>
> Perhaps it will be fixed in the next Squeak release? It's probably  
> very low
> priority as I seem to be the only person who cares about it.
>
> Regards,
> Richard
>
>
>