Re: SMTP with TSL

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Eric & Sherrell wrote:

> 1.  PHP curl with telnet and tsl can't connect.  Anyone know how to do this?

Telnet? How is that related to SMTP here? There's no telnet with TLS...

> 2.  There seems to be no SMTP support with the php libraries.  However I saw 
> this example for libcurl:  http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/smtp-tls.html.  
> Does this mean it might be coming?

It has been present in libcurl since February 2010. I think you need to step 
forward and help your fellow PHP users get access to this functionalty by 
extending the PHP/CURL extension.

> Using curl with an https connection I was able to find a hack that allowed 
> me to send out simple SMTP messages by putting the entire smtp command 
> strings and message into the customrequest field setting when connecting to 
> the server.

Clever! But still just a hack...

> If you have any more stable ideas or solutions, I would love to hear them.

Adding support to PHP/CURL for the small set of new options that SMTP needs 
should be REALLY easy.

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  / daniel.haxx.se

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