Re: Bug#366359: ITP: libnet-smtpauth-perl -- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol client with AUTHentication

["Milan P. Stanic" <mps@oss.co.yu>]

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:15:44AM +0200, Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote:
> * Package name    : libnet-smtpauth-perl
>   Version         : 0.08
>   Upstream Author : Alex Pleiner <alex@zeitform.de>
> * URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-SMTP_auth/
> * License         : Perl
>   Programming Lang: Perl
>   Description     : Simple Mail Transfer Protocol client with AUTHentication
> 
>  This module implements a client interface to the SMTP and ESMTP protocol
>  AUTH service extension, enabling a perl5 application to talk to and
>  authenticate against SMTP servers.
>  .
>  Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-SMTP_auth/

Net::SMTP already supports AUTH service extension (RFC2554), IIRC.

Is it wise to have two Perl modules for the same task with a different
syntax?