Re: libESMTP 0.8.3

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On Tue, 10 July 02:14 Raven wrote:

> Okay. I downloaded Carlos' rpm of libESMTP 0.8.3. When I was installing it,
> rpm detected a dependency of this library to libcrypto.so.0.9.6, which I've
> gotten before in previous versions of the library. As before, I've issued a
> --nodeps to get past the problem and things seem to work fine.
> 
> a) Am I making a mistake in doing this?
> b) If I really do need libcrypto.so.0.9.6, where can I get a good rpm for
> it? I'm running Red Hat (obviously) 7.1

libESMTP uses libcrypto from the OpenSSL distribution for the CRAM-MD5
authentication module and libcrypto and libssl from the same for STARTTLS
support.  ./configure detects the presence of OpenSSL when building libESMTP.
If not found, CRAM-MD5 authentication is omitted and it will not be possible
to ./configure --enable-starttls

The current version of OpenSSL is 0.9.6b, however it is distributed only as
source.  RPMs will have been made by third partys.  I would reccommend
downloading and building OpenSSL from source.  The last time I looked
support for shared libraries was a bit iffy, the normal install only makes
static libraries available.

Brian Stafford