AuthMethod Property

Specifies the method to authenticate the mail sender on the SMTP server.

By default, SMTP authentication is not used.

The following authentication methods are allowed:

0 - No Authentication (default value)
1 - PLAIN. Most SMTP servers support it. However, the password is not encrypted during the transfer
2 - LOGIN. Nearly all SMTP servers support it. The password is not encrypted
3 - CRAM-MD5. The password is encrypted and protected from cracking
4 - NTLM authentication (also known as Secure Password Authentication). Widely used with Microsoft products and services such as IIS SMTP
5 - MSN authentication (alias of NTLM). Used with MSN services

If your mail server requires users to authenticate themselves, enable SMTP authentication by setting AuthMethod, UserName, Password property values before calling Connect or Send methods.

Note: Some servers do not require and even do not support any kind of SMTP authentication.

Value Type:	Long

Parameters:	None

Usage example:

Dim Mailer

' Using Visual Basic to create object
Set Mailer = CreateObject("MailBee.SMTP")

' Using ASP to create object
' Set Mailer = Server.CreateObject("MailBee.SMTP")
'
' In ASP, use Response.Write instead of MsgBox

' Unlock SMTP component
Mailer.LicenseKey = "put your license key here"

' Specify SMTP server name
Mailer.ServerName = "mail.server.com"

' Use LOGIN authentication method
Mailer.AuthMethod = 2
Mailer.UserName = "johndoe"
Mailer.Password = "secret"

Mailer.Message.ToAddr = "bill@yoursite.com"
Mailer.Message.FromAddr = "joe@mysite.com"
Mailer.Message.Subject = "Hello"
Mailer.Message.BodyText = "The message body"

' Try to send message
If Mailer.Send Then
  MsgBox "Sent successfully"
Else
  ' Notify user about error
  MsgBox "Error #" & Mailer.ErrCode 
End If

' Close the connection
Mailer.Disconnect