Bug #72292 for MIME-Lite: MIME::Lite Suggestion

Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 18:20:06 -0500 From: jwagner@graffdeals.com Hi Ricardo I understand you're the man to talk with about MIME::Lite. First, I've used MIME::Lite for years to send mail/attachments from perl. It's the module I use whenever I need to send e-mail; the interface is very well designed and is so simple that one wouldn't need to know anything about the SMTP conversation in order to use it. Truly a great piece of software IMO. One limitation in it that I've kept running in to over the past couple years is that my mail server requires STARTTLS before the SMTP authentication; this is required so that the user names & passwords aren't sent over the internet in plain text and instead are encrypted. (GMail's SMTP servers use the same configuration.) However, MIME::Lite does not support this. A workaround I've used is to set up postfix on a local server to do nothing but handle the TLS and relay mail out. This is far from an optimal solution though. I've revisited the problem a few times over the past couple years, but just ended up using this relay server. This time, while digging around on the internet, I found somebody who purported to have worked out a hack to extend MIME::Lite so it would support TLS. I copied the relevant portion of his script, but it didn't work. After playing with it for more than a little while, I was finally able to develop a subroutine based on his hack which extends MIME::Lite to support TLS and send mail with or without attachments. I'd like to suggest incorporating the changes into MIME::Lite so that it can handle TLS without having to jump through such hoops. The subroutine I wrote, along with a description, can be found on the FreeBSD forums at the following link. Feel free to use it if you'd like - I would appreciate credit via a comment, note in the docs or something if you use it, but it's not a huge deal. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=27597 Also, on the MIME::Lite CPAN project page, the bottom has an AUTHOR section listing Eryq (eryq@zeegee.com) as the author of MIME::Lite, which I assumed meant he also maintained it. I originally e-mailed him about this and was directed back to CPAN to find who is currently heading up the project. You'll probably want to update the AUTHOR section of the project page to include yourself as the current maintainer of the project so poor Eryq stops getting e-mail from people like myself. ;-) Thanks for your time Ricardo. Jim Wagner jwagner@graffdeals.com -- rjbs