Bug #2849

Net_SMTP works with SSL, but the docs hide this useful fact.

Details

Request #2849	Net_SMTP works with SSL, but the docs hide this useful fact.
Submitted	2004-11-29 08:01 UTC
From	drachma60 at ml1 dot net
Status	Closed
Package	Net_SMTP
PHP Version	Irrelevant
OS	Irrelevant
Roadmaps	(Not assigned)

Comments

[2004-11-29 08:01 UTC] drachma60 at ml1 dot net

Description:
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The following code will open up an SSL connection to a mail server (assuming, of course, PHP has SSL support compiled in).

$host = "mail.host.com";
$host = "ssl://$host";
$port = 465; // 465 is a common smtps port
$smtp = new Net_SMTP ("$host", $port);
$smtp->connect ();

Some SMTP authentication methods send the password as cleartext. It is therefore a good idea to encrypt the connection to prevent password sniffing.

However, the Pear documentation for Net_SMTP (link below) makes no mention of this non-obvious method of encrypting SMTP connections.

http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.networking.net-smtp.net-smtp.net-smtp.php

Additionally, adding a link to the below page would be useful, as it contains further information about fsockopen and possible formats of the $host string in various version of PHP.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/transports.php

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