Hi,

I have a list of SMTP servers running TLS that I need to check certs on. I've been going around in circles trying to find a solution and think I must be missing something.

I think I need to be in Crypt::OpenSSL::X509 since I need to use the issuer, notBefore and notAfter methods its provides but Im struggling with how to extract the certificate from the SMTP server. Im happily connecting via IO::Socket::SSL but the peer_certificate/dump_peer_certificate methods dont dump the entire cert.

I can use the openssl binary and pass the output of that into Crypt::OpenSSL::X509 and do what I need from there but I dont really want to shell out and even if I go down that route there are other hurdles to overcome.

Can anyone advise on the best solution here.

Thanks in advance.

In reply to Examining SSL Certificates of SMTP hosts using Perl by foobar1977

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