[Building Sakai] EmailService, SSL, TLS

[carl.hall at et.gatech.edu]

The code in kernel trunk has been patched to have SSL and TLS capabilities.  You can use the associated JIRA [1] to get the patch used.

[1] http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-283


----- "Miguel Carro Pellicer" <farreri.sakai at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Carl!
> 
> Can you help me to configure a google SMTP server with my Sakai 2.6.X?
> I want that Sakai send mails with a google account.
> 
> I need to make changes on my Sakai code or i need to apply a patch?
> 
> Thanks for any help, Miguel.
> 
> Carl F. Hall escribió:
> 
> Changing smtpUseSSL to smtpUseTLS is the easiest way to resolve the
> current issue, but I think both options (SSL, TLS) should be in there
> to give better flexibility of the service.  SSL and TLS are off by
> default, so the probability of someone running into this issue is
> equal to the number of people that try to connect using SSL to their
> mail server which I think to be pretty low.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adrian Fish" <a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk> To: "David Horwitz"
> <david.horwitz at uct.ac.za> Cc: "carl hall" <carl.hall at gatech.edu> ,
> "sakai-dev" <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org> Sent: Monday,
> September 21, 2009 4:50:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] EmailService, SSL, TLS
> 
> Hi David, Carl,
> 
> Why not just change m_smtpUseSSL to m_smtpUseTLS as well as changing
> the
> name of the sakai.properties prop to smtpUseTLS? smtpUseSSL was a bad
> choice of parameter name; I hold my hand up :) It is off by default
> though, isn't it? If the parameter is not specified, or is false, the
> property is not set.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Adrian.
> 
> David Horwitz wrote:
> 
> Hi Carl,
> 
> Quite right that should be off by default - will you jira and I'll fix
> it.
> 
> D carl.hall at gatech.edu wrote:
> 
> I happened to notice in the email service that the following exists:
> 
> if(m_smtpUseSSL)
>   props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
> 
> I believe this is not quite right.  Using SSL takes a little more
> setup work and doesn't imply TLS.  I don't mind putting in a patch for
> this but wanted to make sure I'm not missing something here.  Can
> someone else confirm this, please?
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