All,
In #perl tonight, a question was asked about a SMTP module that supported both SSL and authentication. A quick search of CPAN turned up Net::SMTP::SSL and Net::SMTP_auth, but nothing that combined the two.

I jokingly said if I had more than 14 minutes until Jeapordy started, I would whip something up. Then I looked under the hood. Net::SMTP::SSL basically just uses IO::Socket::SSL and does some symbol table manipulation. Net::SMTP_auth inherits from Net::SMTP and add a couple of new methods.

I offered that all one would have to do is change two lines in Net::SMTP_auth:

• use Net::SMTP; becomes use Net::SMTP::SSL;
• @ISA = qw(Net::SMTP); becomes @ISA = qw(Net::STMP::SSL);

In your main script, you use Net::SMTP_auth which can now do everything you want. Unfortunately, the person asking didn't have a test script.

Anyone out there able to test and verify this for me? I would first attempt to contact the author to add this support and if that doesn't work upload something myself.

Update: It works! naChoZ was kind enough to point out that anyone with a gmail account can try this themselves.