Hello.

I'm using the standard procedure of the Net::SMTP module to send emails from a Windows box with Strawberry, and it works if I use a plain SMTP connection, but when I use SSL it hangs at the dataend method (which is part of the Net::Cmd module).

I searched and found some other reports, but not a solution.

The piece of code is:

  my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new(Host => $mailserver, SSL => 0, Debug => 1,
+ Timeout => 30);

  $smtp->auth($username, $password);

  $smtp->mail($myemail);
  if ($smtp->to($destemail)) {
    $smtp->data();
    $smtp->datasend("From: $myemail\n");
    $smtp->datasend("To: $destemail\n");
    $smtp->datasend("Date: $date\n");
    $smtp->datasend("Subject: A test\n");
    $smtp->datasend("\n");
    warn "(end of header)\n";
    $smtp->datasend("This is a test...\n");
    warn "(end of body)\n";
    $smtp->dataend;
    warn "(dataend completed)\n";
  } else {
     print "ERROR: ", $smtp->message();
  }
  warn "(bye...)\n";
  $smtp->quit;

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With SSL=>1, debug trace shows all the messages from the (successful) authentication up to "end of body" message and hangs for a while, then a timeout message appears.

I also tried without the dataend, but the quit seems to call dataend internally and the problem persists.

What am I missing?

I don't want to hack standard mods...

In reply to Net::SMTP and SSL timeout problem by vitoco

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