From: Minero Aoki <aamine@...>
Date: 2003-05-21T10:32:23+09:00
Subject: Re: pop over ssl with ruby?

Hi,

  In mail "pop over ssl with ruby?"
    "Josef 'Jupp' Schugt" <jupp@gmx.de> wrote:

> Is there an easy way of using net/pop for POP over SSL connections?
> 
> The question is not rhetorical, I actually have a POP3 account that
> requires using SSL connections (at the moment I have all messages
> forwarded to another account that does allow unencrypted POP3
> logins).

I *think* following script does work.  This script is once
posted on ruby-list ML and I modify it for ruby 1.6/1.8.
(You need to get `openssl' library from RAA.)

#
# pops.rb
#

require 'net/pop'
require 'ssl'

module Net

  class POP3S < POP3
    def POP3S.default_port
      995
    end

    def POP3S.socket_type
      Net::SSLSocket
    end

    def on_connect
      @socket.ssl_connect
    end
  end

end


-- Minero Aoki