[fpc-pascal] Dependency of OpenSSL 1.0.2 still in FPC 3.2.0 on some platforms?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 5 May 2021, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote:

> On Wed, 5 May 2021 16:51:06 +0200 (CEST), Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
> <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 5 May 2021, Nico Neumann via fpc-pascal wrote:
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>>> Indy has support for OpenSSL 1.1.1, just not officially (yet).
>>> See https://github.com/IndySockets/Indy/pull/299
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>> I am aware of this. Good luck getting that to work on linux. 
>> It's a total mess and not nearly ready for production use.
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>> In the end I simply installed an older version of openssl.
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> Any directions on how to accomplish this?
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> Or is there some other way in Lazaus for Linux to add a function to send an
> email containing attachments (files with monitoring result data)?
> THe SMTP server I use requires SSL on port 465.
> I have only ever used Indy for things like this.

Use package laz_synapse (in online package manager), unit smtpsend.

I'm using it in FPC and Delphi even today. 
In general, it works a lot easier/simpler than Indy.

Unless you need some weird/outdated protocols, 
I highly recommend Synapse over Indy.

Michael.