From: Scott Barron <linguist@...>
Date: 2006-02-05T15:10:26+09:00
Subject: Re: POP email with SSL

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On 2/4/06, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
>
> Mark Volkmann wrote:
> > Can someone point me to an example of reading email from a server
> > using POP and SSL?
>
> I *think* the ruby gmail library (see rubyforge, if it's up) does this.
>
> ---
> James Britt
>
> "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion
> of knowledge."
>   - D. Boorstin
>
>
I believe that the gmail lib uses net/https for doing its work.  I don't
think 1.8.x pop3 lib can do SSL (without you manually setting up the socket=
)
but the pop3 lib from CVS can.  If you work at it, you can pull that into
1.8.4 and use it by renaming some things.

-Scott

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