Is there a Perl IMAP module with TLS support?

I'm writing a Perl script to connect to an IMAP server that requires TLS over port 143. The server does not support connecting over SSL. Thus far, the Perl IMAP modules I have found support only SSL, not TLS.

Are there any Perl IMAP modules that provide TLS support? Thus far I have looked at:

Net::IMAP Net::IMAP::Simple Net::IMAP::Client

Net::IMAP::Client supports SSL but not TLS.

Any thoughts?

From stackoverflow

• You make a non-ssl socket that is later transformed, "This is also useful if you want to use IO::Socket::INET alternatives, like IO::Socket::SSL."

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mail-IMAPClient/lib/Mail/IMAPClient.pod#Socket

  ... when you create your method reference here ...

  http://search.cpan.org/~sullr/IO-Socket-SSL-1.24/SSL.pm#METHODS

  the example here can be easily tuned

  http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SULLR/IO-Socket-SSL-1.24/example/ssl_client.pl

  Peter Wood : I'm afraid I don't understand enough about this to code what needs to be coded. I'm really looking for a module that provides this functionality built-in. In other words, I'd like to simply initiate an IMAP connection and specify "TLS => 1". On the other hand, I'd also be happy if you were to lay out in a bit more detail exactly how I could get to having an IMAP module with TLS support, using the above methods.

  hpavc : Make your network connection with io::socket and then hand that connection off to mail::imapclient. It will not try and make its own connection, but rather use the one use made for it. This allows you to use whatever mechanism you can muster. This is a good thing since we really don't want the mail::imapclient programers reinventing the wheel and dealing with networking.