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

[Janky Jay, III]

Hello Matthew,

On 12/14/2016 10:22 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 2016/12/14 16:53, Janky Jay, III wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> 	So, mail/p5-Net-SMTP-SSL is a requirement of security/maia (a port I
>> maintain) and it is apparently being deprecated as of March of next
>> year. I see this in my nightly reports:
>>
>> p5-Net-SMTP-SSL-1.04: Tag: expiration_date Value: 2017-03-31
>> p5-Net-SMTP-SSL-1.04: Tag: deprecated Value: Deprecated by upstream, use
>> Net::SMTP instead
>>
>> 	I'd like to get this dependency updated in the port but I don't see a
>> "Net::SMTP" available (at least in the ${LOCALBASE}/mail directory. I
>> see others such as p5-Net-SMTP-TLS and p5-Net-SMTPS and
>> p5-Net-SMTP_auth, etc...
>>
>> 	My question is, what port am I supposed to use instead of
>> p5-Net-SMTP-SSL? I see no configuration options for SSL in the other
>> ports. Just want to make sure I do this correctly. Any information will
>> be greatly appreciated!
> 
> 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.

	Fantastic! Thanks for the info. I'll see what I can do about either
getting the application to use Net::SMTP and I'll add IO::Socket::SSL or
I'll come up with another workaround.

Regards,
Janky Jay, III


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