mail/p5-Net-SMTP-SSL Deprecated Message.

Christian Schwarz me at cschwarz.com
Sun Jan 8 11:30:36 UTC 2017


On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 05:22:08PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Net::SMTP is a core perl module, or you can install the p5-Net-3.10_1,1
> package to get a slightly newer version of it.
> 
> Net::SMTP has had SSL support capability since version 1.28 way back in
> 2014.  You just need to have IO::Socket::SSL installed too.
> 
> In the intervening 3 or so years, applications are meant to have been
> re-written to use Net::SMTP rather than Net::SMTP::SSL, but clearly this
> has not happened universally.
> 

Is there a plan for ports where upstream doesn't move to Net::SMTP?

Patch them until upstream catches up?

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Christian Schwarz


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