Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] send-email: squelch warning from Net::SMTP::SSL

["Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>]

On 2013-07-14 19.03, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 07:19:10PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
>>> /usr/bin/perl -MIO::Socket::SSL -e 'print "$IO::Socket::SSL::VERSION\n";'
>>> 1.22
>>
>> This is ancient!  (I have 1.84).  Is it not possible to do an
>> ssl-verify-peer in older versions (is it exported as something else)?
>> The older versions don't display the warning anyway, and this series
>> is about squelching the warning in newer versions.  Does
>>
>>   require IO::Socket::SSL qw(SSL_VERIFY_NONE SSL_VERIFY_PEER) or print
>> "warning: not using SSL_VERIFY_PEER due to outdated IO::Socket::SSL"
> 
> require doesn't take a list of symbols to import, and the import dies if
> it fails.  You need:
> 
> require IO::Socket::SSL;
> eval {
> 	IO::Socket::SSL->import(qw(SSL_VERIFY_NONE SSL_VERIFY_PEER));
> };
> if ($@) {
> 	warn "Not using SSL_VERIFY_PEER due to outdated IO::Socket::SSL\n";
> 	# Do something different here.
> }
> 
> I didn't stick the require in the eval because git-send-email will fail
> in this case anyway if you don't have it, since Net::SMTP::SSL requires
> it.  Let me know if you want a patch for this on top of the existing two
> in this series and I'll provide one.
> 
Please send a patch if possible.
I can volonteer to test it here, but it can take a couple of days to respond.