On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@beta9.be> wrote:

Larry,

On 20 Sep 2011, at 02:13, Larry White wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a way to send email using SSL.

There is no ready out-of-the-box solution for this (yet), as far as I know.

> Googling I've found several conversations from earlier this year on the subject, including one thread from May and another from January. In the May thread it sounded like a project was getting kicked off to do something that might be official-ish. �Has there been progress on this?

Yes, there is a project called Zodiac that reimplements socketstream and adds secure (SSL) socket streams. These are then used for HTTPS. I think they should also work for sending email over SSL.

At the moment Zodiac is still in development, if you are interested, see my messages to the Pharo dev list.

Some people have used local tunneling (http -> https) using stunnel as a way around this problem.

I've used the SSL Plugin + Zodiac to access some Google APIs with success last week in Linux (ubuntu).� If you can use the plugin, maybe it's worth to use it :).
I just followed Sven instructions from one of hist last emails :).

Cheers,
Guille