POP3 with SSL

[coldiceangel]

If i want to receive email from gmail server, what should I do? Should I derive from POP3ClientSession
as SecureSMTPClientSession(1.3.7 branch) does? Is that job complicated?

Thanks.

[coldiceangel]

When I try to use SecureSMTPClientSession, the app throws an exception, in

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int SecureSocketImpl::handleError(int rc)

line:

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ERR_error_string_n(lastError, buffer, sizeof(buffer));

I saw buffer's content was "error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed", I find nothing useful from google.
How does this happen? I used a self-signed certificate.

Thanks.

[guenter]

For using POP3ClientSession with SSL, you need to first create a Poco::Net::SecureStreamSocket and connect the socket to your POP3 Server. Then you simply create a POP3ClientSession with the Poco::Net::SecureStreamSocket.

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Poco::Net::SocketAddress sa("mailhost", 995);
Poco::Net::SecureStreamSocket sss(sa);
Poco::Net::POP3ClientSession pops(sss);
pops.login("user", "pass");
...


Regarding the error you get from SecureSMTPClientSession: you'll need to set up a certificate handler that accepts the self-signed certificate. By default, self-signed certificates will be rejected.

Do this before creating the SecureSMTPClientSession:

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SharedPtr<InvalidCertificateHandler> ptrCert = new AcceptCertificateHandler(false);
Context::Ptr ptrContext = new Context(Context::CLIENT_USE, "", "", "rootcert.pem", Context::VERIFY_RELAXED, 9, false, "ALL:!ADH:!LOW:!EXP:!MD5:@STRENGTH");
SSLManager::instance().initializeClient(0, ptrCert, ptrContext);


Alternatively, you can also create the context with Context::VERIFY_NONE.

[coldiceangel]

Thank you so much, guenter, you save me! I will try

[coldiceangel]

POP3/SMTP with ssl all work fine now