how to use smtp starttls() encryption?

[Xu, C.S.]

I did download the openssl-0.9.6g and compiled/installed, and I found
mandrake 9.0 already use openssl-0.9.6g; but the python 2.2.2
I downloaded, after compiling still shows it used 0.9.5 ssl.
Exact same error when I tried to use python 2.2.2 to send out
emails.

Now I've setup an temp. email account for you guys to help me
out, see whether you can use this account send emails first:
Email: 			testpythonsmtp at offleasecomputer.net
Password:		starttls
pop3/smtp server:	mail.offleasecomputer.net

Thanks again.


> Your Python was built without SSL support. Install the OpenSSL
> development libraries and recompile Python.
> 
> Btw. OpenSSL/0.9.5beta is *seriously* outdated. There were
> vulnerabilites in various 0.9.6 versions - I don't know if they existed
> in 0.9.5 already, but consider upgrading to the latest OpenSSL, too.
> 
> Maybe Python *needs* 0.9.6 to build with SSL support - that's yet
> another reason to upgrade OpenSSL.
> 
> -- Gerhard