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The PB Mail library has recently been updated to support authentication of User Name and Password, which these days is a minimum SMTP requirement. However, the leading email server providers, notably Google, now only run a secure service using SSL/TLS. There is a popular C based library, OpenSSL, that could be used to enhance PB. OpenSSL however is very large and email security is only a minor part of it - a lib native to PB specifically for email would be far more appropriate.

I don't know how many PB Users actually need the Mail library, but I can see that it is increasingly of limited use because SSL/TLS is becoming the norm.

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I wish! I pounded on Fred here for years just to get mail lib support of user/password authentication, it was almost useless otherwise.
But SSL/TLS support would of course need to be done at a lower layer so as it also supports other layers as well such as FTP, HTTP, etc.

But SSL/TLS support would of course need to be done at a lower layer so as it also supports other layers as well such as FTP, HTTP, etc.

Well, not sure. That is a much bigger task that would mean it's less likely to be done?