From: Sam Gentle <sgentle@...>
Date: 2006-02-05T20:19:26+09:00
Subject: Re: POP email with SSL

On 2/5/06, Scott Barron <linguist@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> 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.

I was trying to do a similar thing a while back, and found someone
who'd already had the same problem and solved it for me.

http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/137792

Page down to the end to see the pop3s bit.

Sam