From: mathew <meta@...>
Date: 2005-12-06T04:57:33+09:00
Subject: Re: POP3 and SMTP with SSL support

zimba-tm wrote:
> All happy, I thought that it would be that easy for SMTP. My bad. SMTP
> doesn't work the same way. Here's the RFC :
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2487.txt
> 
> What I want, is start a thread on this subject here. It looks like
> ruby's support to those protocols is not complete.

TLS isn't part of the SMTP protocol, it's an extension to it. So the 
fact that Ruby doesn't support TLS doesn't mean its support for SMTP is 
not complete.

I'd be inclined to implement a separate TLS library, perhaps based on 
the existing Ruby SSL, and then patch the SMTP library to call it. Then 
for extra points, you could make the LDAP and POP3 standard libraries 
able to call the TLS library too.


mathew
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