i have been trying to use socket to connect to SMTP server on port: 465 using SMTP TLS/SSL yes, using Perl, i need urgent help on making this request successfuly using socket,thank you. 


use Socket;
use MIME::Base64;
my $cr = pack('H*','0D');
my $lf = pack('H*','0A');
my($username)  = '***@gmail.com';
my($password)  = 'mypass';
my($from)      = '*******@gmail.com';
my($from_name) = 'Beanscake';
my($to)        = 'emailto';
my($to_name)   = 'name';
my($subject)    = 'Test';
my($body)       = "Test Line One.\nTest Line Two.\n";


my($mailServer) = 'smtp.gmail.com';



$main::SIG{'INT'} = 'closeSocket';


my$proto = getprotobyname('tcp'); 
my($port)       =  465;
my($serverAddr) = (gethostbyname($mailServer))[4];




socket(SMTP, AF_INET(), SOCK_STREAM(), $proto)
    or die("socket: $!");


$packFormat = 'S n a4 x8';   # Windows 95, SunOs 4.1+
#$packFormat = 'S n c4 x8';   # SunOs 5.4+ (Solaris 2)


connect(SMTP, pack($packFormat, AF_INET(), $port, $serverAddr))
    or die("connect: $!");



select(SMTP); $| = 1; select(STDOUT);    # use unbuffemiles i/o.



sendSMTP(1, "HELO local $cr$lf");
sendSMTP(1,"AUTH LOGIN $cr$lf");
sendSMTP(1,encode_base64($username).$cr.$lf);
sendSMTP(1,encode_base64($password).$cr.$lf);
sendSMTP(1, "MAIL FROM: <$from>$cr$lf");
sendSMTP(1, "RCPT TO: <$to>$cr$lf");
sendSMTP(1, "DATA $cr$lf");
sendSMTP(1, "To: $to_name<$to>$cr$lf");
sendSMTP(1, "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n");
sendSMTP(1,"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\r\n");
sendSMTP(1,"From: $from_name<$from>$cr$lf");
sendSMTP(1,"Subject: $subject $cr$lf\r\n");
sendSMTP(1, "$body $cr$lf");
sendSMTP(1,".$cr$lf");
sendSMTP(1, "QUIT $cr$lf");

close(SMTP);


sub closeSocket {     # close smtp socket on error
    close(SMTP);
    die("SMTP socket closed due to SIGINT\n");
}


sub sendSMTP {
    my($debug)  = shift;
    my($buffer) = @_;


    print STDERR ("> $buffer") if $debug;
    send(SMTP, $buffer, 0);


    recv(SMTP, $buffer, 200, 0);
    print STDERR ("< $buffer") if $debug;


    return( (split(/ /, $buffer))[0] );
}

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In reply to help on socket to smtp on TLS/SSL by beanscake

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