[web2py] SSL Email Support patch

[Eric Vicenti]

Hey, all

I was having difficulties sending from web2py, when I realized there
is no SSL encryption support. Since this is already built into
smtplib, it was a simple addition. I should mention this wont work on
GAE, and I have not comprehensively tested it.

diff -r 800e086037d9 gluon/tools.py
--- a/gluon/tools.py    Sat Jul 23 01:47:05 2011 -0500
+++ b/gluon/tools.py    Sat Jul 23 00:17:49 2011 -0700
@@ -206,6 +206,7 @@
         settings.sender = sender
         settings.login = login
         settings.tls = tls
+        settings.ssl = False
         settings.cipher_type = None
         settings.sign = True
         settings.sign_passphrase = None
@@ -569,8 +570,11 @@
                     result =
mail.send_mail(sender=self.settings.sender, to=origTo,
                                             subject=subject,
body=text, **xcc)
             else:
-                server =
smtplib.SMTP(*self.settings.server.split(':'))
-                if self.settings.tls:
+                if self.settings.ssl:
+                    server =
smtplib.SMTP_SSL(*self.settings.server.split(':'))
+                else:
+                    server =
smtplib.SMTP(*self.settings.server.split(':'))
+                if self.settings.tls and not self.settings.ssl:
                     server.ehlo()
                     server.starttls()
                     server.ehlo()

To use, simply set mail.settings.ssl = True

Enjoy!