Re: pre-connect and smtp ?

[christophe barbé <christophe barbe lineo fr>]

I will try this patch this evening and let you know.

Thanks

Le lun, 20 aoû 2001 13:59:29, Brian Stafford a écrit :
> On Mon, 20 August 12:44 christophe barbé wrote:
> > 
> > Le lun, 20 aoû 2001 13:33:11, Brian Stafford a écrit :
> > > Either check the MTA's documentation or telnet yourhost.example.org
> on 25
> > > or 587
> > > when the server prints the greeting, say :-
> > > 
> > > 	ehlo my.localhost.name
> > > 
> > > The server should respond with a list of supported extensions.
> > > "quit" will exit the session.
> > 
> > I got :
> > 
> > 250-PIPELINING
> > 250-SIZE 10240000
> > 250-ETRN
> > 250-STARTTLS
> > 250 8BITMIME
> > 
> > So Imagine I can do it.
> > 
> > > > Is there some documentation on how to use it with balsa ?
> > >
> > > No configuration required.  If the server supports the extension,
> > > libESMTP
> > > will use it if necessary.
> > 
> > I will try it.
> 
> OK there is a small issue I mentioned last week on the list.  I need to
> patch
> the balsa code to tell it to use STARTTLS.  By default libESMTP does not
> attempt to use STARTTLS even if the server offers the extension.
> 
> I will try and write this code as soon as possible.  Mainly it is to
> offer
> a "use TLS" option in the server configuration dialogue selectable as
> Never/If possible/Always (like in netscape).
> 
> Meanwhile, the following patch will do what is necessary.  It's the
> equivalent
> of the "use TLS if Possible" option always enabled.
> 
> Brian
> 
> Index: libbalsa/send.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gnome/balsa/libbalsa/send.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.123
> diff -u -r1.123 send.c
> --- libbalsa/send.c     2001/08/16 15:54:21     1.123
> +++ libbalsa/send.c     2001/08/20 11:55:38
> @@ -459,6 +459,9 @@
>      session = smtp_create_session ();
>      smtp_set_server (session, smtp_server);
>   
> +    /* Tell libESMTP it can use the SMTP STARTTLS extension.  */
> +    smtp_starttls_enable (session, Starttls_ENABLED);
> +
>      /* Now tell libESMTP it can use the SMTP AUTH extension.  */
>      smtp_auth_set_context (session, smtp_authctx);
> 
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Christophe Barbé
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