Smtp Add Tls Support

This plugin adds STARTTLS support to the Net::SMTP class.

In contrast to http://rubyforge.org/projects/tlsmail/ (which replaces the Ruby 1.8’s net/smtp and net/pop3 with the ruby 1.9 ones this plugin tries to be as unintrusive as possible. The helper functions were copied from various places in the internet.

The plugin has been tested with Ruby on Rails 2.0.1.

If you like it and have a workingwithrails.com account recommend me, my username is ‘andreashappe’.

Installation

Just install the plugin (get the latest version from http://happiness-is-slavery.net/wp-content/rails-plugins/) It will automatically (and locally) alter the Net::SMTP behaviour as soon as it is loaded as a Ruby on Rails plugin.

Example

Enable STARTTLS support globally: Net::SMTP.enable_tls()

or enable STARTTLS support for one SMTP instance:

smtp = Net::SMTP.new(‘mymailserver.com’, 25) smtp.enable_tls

check if tls is enabled:

smtp.use_tls? (or Net::SMTP.use_tls? for the global config)

send the message (STARTTLS will be used) just as before:

smtp = Net::SMTP.new(‘mymailserver.com’, 25) smtp.enable_tls

smtp.start(‘myhostname’,’username’,’password’) { |s| s.send_message msgstr, ‘my@mailaddress.com’, ‘recipient@othermailaddress.com’ } smtp.finish

or send it through Net::SMTP:

Net::SMTP.enable_tls Net::SMTP.start(‘mymailserver.com’, 25, ‘myhostname’, ‘username’, ‘password’, :plain) {|smtp| smtp.send_message msgstr, ‘my@mailaddress.com’, ‘recipient@othermailaddress.com’ }