Re: [fetchmail-users] Secure SMTP support?

[Grant E. <gra...@gm...>]

On 2014-04-03, J. Echter <j.e...@ec...> wrote:
> Am 03.04.2014 23:29, schrieb Grant Edwards:
>> The last time I tried to set up fetchmail, it seemed to support
>> SSL-wrapped IMAP and POP3 but not SMTP.
>>
>> Is that still the case?
>>
>> Why support SSL-wrapped IMAP and POP but not SMTP?
>>
>> I would think the infrastructure required to support IMAP/POP over
SSL
>> would work just as well for supporting SMTP over SSL.  In all cases
>> you're just connecting to a server using SSL and then running the
>> exact same protocol on top of the SSL connection -- right?
>>
> Hi Grant,
>
> why didn't you try it at first?

I did try it.  I couldn't figure out the correct options and after
some googling discovered it wasn't supported (I found a number of
other people trying to do the same thing).  Now that there's an
upcoming major release, I thought perhaps that issue had been
addressed.

-- 
Grant