Re: smtp-openssl.el

Re: smtp-openssl.el

[Reiner Steib]

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On Tue, Oct 23 2007, Phillip Lord wrote:

> Here is a new version of smtp-openssl.el.
>
> This file enables the use of openssl as opposed to gnutls for encrypted access
> to an SMTP server for sending mail. This works cross-platform, with cygwin
> openssl on windows, which I can't get gnutls to do.

Would it make sense to rewrite this a patch to `smtpmail.el'?

> I've written this for my own purposes, so it remains classified as a hack. The
> new version is smaller and uses only `defadvice' rather than over-writing
> internal smtpmail.el functions, so it's much less of a hack than previous
> version. It's untested on anything other than the smpt server that I use. 

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: smtp-openssl.el

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "RS" == Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

  RS> [ Please direct responses to
  RS>   gnu.emacs.help/gmane.emacs.help/help-gnu-emacs<at>gnu.org, not to
  RS>   gnu.emacs.sources/gmane.emacs.sources/gnu.emacs.sources<at>gnu.org ]

  RS> On Tue, Oct 23 2007, Phillip Lord wrote:

  >> Here is a new version of smtp-openssl.el.
  >> 
  >> This file enables the use of openssl as opposed to gnutls for encrypted
  >> access to an SMTP server for sending mail. This works cross-platform,
  >> with cygwin openssl on windows, which I can't get gnutls to do.

  RS> Would it make sense to rewrite this a patch to `smtpmail.el'?


Probably. There is a bit of a hack which would work better inside
smptmail. However the whole lot is poorly tested; I have only one smtp server
at my call.

Phil