On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 04:12:19AM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Hm, so the problem occurs when you give smtp_host_string() to
> Net::SMTP->new() as the first argument.

Yes.  I created a test program, and Net::SMTP was fine as long as I used
Port, but failed when I included the port in the hostname string.
Arguably this is a bug in Net::SMTP.

> So if smtp_host_string() returns a hostname without a port, then
> Net::SMTP->new() will connect to port 25 by default?

Correct.  Port 25 is the default for Net::SMTP, so there's no change in
behavior.

> I need to be in a (firewalled?) network that uses Kerberos to
> reproduce this, right?  Even if I can't reproduce it, the change seems
> to be fine.

You need to have access to a mail server that will only relay when
authenticated, and only accepts GSSAPI.  My personal server accepts
GSSAPI always and PLAIN only when TLS is enabled, so I just turned off
TLS temporarily to test.

As for Kerberos, yes, you'd need to have it set up to reproduce this.

> While we're on the subject, do you know how to get rid of this huge
> ugly warning I get everytime I send emails?
> 
> *******************************************************************
>  Using the default of SSL_verify_mode of SSL_VERIFY_NONE for client
>  is deprecated! Please set SSL_verify_mode to SSL_VERIFY_PEER
>  together with SSL_ca_file|SSL_ca_path for verification.
>  If you really don't want to verify the certificate and keep the
>  connection open to Man-In-The-Middle attacks please set
>  SSL_verify_mode explicitly to SSL_VERIFY_NONE in your application.
> *******************************************************************
>   at /home/artagnon/src/git/git-send-email line 1200.

You need to explicitly specify an SSL_verify_mode argument to start_SSL.

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