From: Greg Hurrell <greg.hurrell@...>
Date: 2007-03-21T04:15:06+09:00
Subject: STARTTLS in Net::SMTP: news on the patch?

Searching back through the archives I found this message from 2004 by
Daniel Hobe where he writes:

"This patch adds STARTTLS support to net/smtp.  The new methods are
modeled on my previous patch to add SSL support to pop."

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/2789

And soon after, the reply from Minero Aoki, the author of Net::SMTP:

"Thank you very much. I commited your patch with slite modifications
(mostly method names and variable names)."

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/2798

But looking at my current Ruby 1.8.6 install the patch is nowhere to
be seen. Anyone know what happened between 2004 and now? I do note
that the current Ruby trunk does include STARTTLS support:

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/lib/net/smtp.rb?revision=11994&view=markup

I'd prefer not to have to send login info in plaintext when using
Net::STMP... any workarounds while we wait for 1.9/2.0?

Cheers,
Greg