> But that requires at least IO::Socket::SSL 2.007 and that is well above the version 1.79 that Perl 5.8.8 seems to support. Or at least above the version that I can get CPanel to install.
> So, any hints on how to explicitly tell Net::SMTP 3.03 that it's supposed to tell IO::Socket::SSL 1.79 to start starttls.

I think that if you are still using a system with 5.8.8 then you will probably run into more problems, like missing support for newer TLS versions etc. Apart from that current IO::Socket::SSL should still run with 5.8.8 but you have to install it and probably even newer versions of Net::SSLeay. Trying to enforce use of the very old version 1.79 will not work because it needs features of the newer versions.

I guess your problems are more related to the use of very old and for years unsupported code and you better should upgrade instead of trying to work around all these problems.

In reply to Re^4: Net::SMTP::SSL ACK!! by noxxi
in thread Net::SMTP::SSL ACK!! by Dandello

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