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RE: SMTP SSL does not start, no authentication (was empty subject)

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:16:31 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Alona Rossen wrote:

> According to libcurl documentation, CURLOPT_USE_SSL option is an FTP option
> and is not a general option for SSL enabling. Is this correct or this is a
> documentation "imperfection" and CURLOPT_USE_SSL should be used for all
> protocols to enable SSL?

It's a mistake. That option is for all protocols that need "explicit"
enabling: FTP, IMAP, SMTP and POP3.

I've committed and pushed a correction so the online docs is fine already.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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