API to send email securely

fpietrosanti commented 12 years ago

APAF should provide secure email sending facilities to be used by apaf itself and by apaf applications.

APAF should provide a set of API to send secure email with the following security features:

PGP Encryption
Strict SSL checking (ability to specify a trusted SSL CA)

The API should be able to use APAF's built-in email configuration data (from apaf config) or taking configuration parameters (server, account, from, etc) directly from the application calling it.

The API should be synchronous and report state-fully the success or failure of sending along with proper error messages (es: the answer from email server, failure in ssl, a timeout or a success).

fpietrosanti commented 12 years ago

Please note that this depend on #8 for PGP encryption.

Please note that usage of PyOpenSSL for strict SSL checking by Twisted Email package (https://github.com/racker/python-twisted-mail) require bundling also binaries of OpenSSL for the right platform (windows/osx) and automation of the installation requirement.

fpietrosanti commented 12 years ago

How Trac implement email encryption with Python/python-gnupgp/gnupg http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/AnnouncerPlugin/MessageEncryption

fpietrosanti commented 12 years ago

How Django implement email encryption http://code.google.com/p/django-email-extras/

mmaker commented 12 years ago

"email sending facilities" --> in case of errors? Creating a new package utils for generic APIs . c8051727ef812fc070c216aafef225d28943df33

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