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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 15 May 2021, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote:

> On Sat, 15 May 2021 09:00:08 +0200 (CEST), Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
> <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> Glad you got it working.
>>
>> I worked for some time for a mass mailing company. 
>> From that experience I assure you that delivering mail is NOT easy.
>>
>> Meanwhile, there are a lot of safety mechanisms installed on all "big" mail
>> platforms, and getting a mail delivered becomes more and more difficult.
>
> Well, after a few more tests two of my test recipients again did not receive the
> emails. Both are handled by GMail (of course). Now the reason is that GMail
> determined that the recipient had gotten too many "similar" emails so it stopped
> accepting them.
> And I also saw that it is getting suspicious of the "non-validated" sender...
>
> All of this is a PITA since I am working on porting an automatic environment
> monitoring system from Delphi to FreePascal and Linux. Here the results will be
> emailed packaged in a zipfile several times a day to a few recipients and it is
> not acceptable that the recipient's mail server blocks these emails.

Welcome to the world of mailing.
I wish I could say it gets better, but it does not.

>
> The body of the message is fixed at the moment, I could add a timestamp string
> to it but not much more to make it "new" every time.
> ... :(

It might be better not to mail this, but to upload results to a server using
http, which puts everything in a database, and make a small frontend for your database.

Michael.