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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 11 May 2021, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote:

> On Mon, 10 May 2021 09:24:37 -0000 (UTC), Virgo Pärna via fpc-pascal
> <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 10 May 2021 10:08:53 +0200 (CEST), Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> That's it. From your story, it seems you just need to set
>>>    FSMTP.TargetPort:=465;
>>>    FSMTP.FullSSL:=True;
>>>
>>
>> 	Also ssl_openssl must be in uses somewhere in program to include
>> openssl support for Synapse.
>
> Of course, but as I said the basic mail sending is working I just have a hard
> time understanding how to add file attachments.
> It would not have worked unless the proper uses are added to the pas file and
> also the laz_synapse package set as required for the project.

That is always so, for every package you use out there.

>
> The only attachment example I have (from Michael) brings in mime, which I don't
> understand much of and the synapse docs are very hard reading too.

I guess we have a different understanding of "hard reading", then.

> So right now I try to read up on how to actually handle the mime object here...
>
> And I had an additional question:
>
> Does Synapse throw exceptions when errors happen? It does not look like that in
> the code I have examined so far but I have only looked in two units..

Yes, it does.

You should always assume exceptions. Maybe synapse itself does not throw
one, but e.g. underlying file IO routines might.

Michael.