[Building Sakai] EmailService, SSL, TLS

[Carl F. Hall]

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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