I just reinstalled stunnel the latest version. When running I went through the creation of the pem file. I put in UK for the country code and the company name and put a . for everything else. It finished, I start the GUI and it works. I edited the config file to comment out the gmail IMAP section and reload it and it was fine.

I rebooted, now it tells me tehre is an error in the config file.

Why?

I keep getting this problem. Rebooting seems to break the config somehow. Log shows this when stunnel starts:

[ ] Cron thread initialized
[ ] Running on Windows 6.1
[ ] No limit detected for the number of clients
[.] stunnel 5.35 on x86-pc-msvc-1500 platform
[.] Compiled/running with OpenSSL 1.0.2h-fips  3 May 2016
[.] Threading:WIN32 Sockets:SELECT,IPv6 TLS:ENGINE,FIPS,OCSP,PSK,SNI
[ ] errno: (*_errno())
[ ] GUI message loop initialized
[ ] Running on Windows 6.1
[.] Reading configuration from file stunnel.conf
[.] UTF-8 byte order mark detected
[.] FIPS mode disabled
[ ] Compression disabled
[ ] Snagged 64 random bytes from C:/.rnd
[ ] Wrote 1024 new random bytes to C:/.rnd
[ ] PRNG seeded successfully
[ ] Initializing service [gmail-pop3]
[ ] No certificate or private key specified
[ ] SSL options: 0x03000004 (+0x03000000, -0x00000000)
[ ] Initializing service [gmail-smtp]
[ ] No certificate or private key specified
[ ] SSL options: 0x03000004 (+0x03000000, -0x00000000)
[.] Configuration successful
[ ] Listening file descriptor created (FD=388)
[ ] Option SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE set on accept socket
[ ] Service [gmail-pop3] (FD=388) bound to 127.0.0.1:110
[ ] Listening file descriptor created (FD=392)
[ ] Option SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE set on accept socket
[!] bind: Permission denied (WSAEACCES) (10013)
[!] Error binding service [gmail-smtp] to 127.0.0.1:25
[ ] Closing service [gmail-pop3]
[ ] Service [gmail-pop3] closed (FD=388)
[ ] Service [gmail-pop3] closed
[ ] Closing service [gmail-smtp]
[ ] Service [gmail-smtp] closed

[!] Server is down
[ ] Executing cron jobs
[ ] Cron jobs completed in 0 seconds
[ ] Waiting 86400 seconds

The config file contains this:

debug = debug
output = stunnel.log

[gmail-pop3]
client = yes
accept = 127.0.0.1:110
connect = pop.gmail.com:995
verifyChain = yes
CAfile = ca-certs.pem
checkHost = pop.gmail.com
OCSPaia = yes

[gmail-smtp]
client = yes
accept = 127.0.0.1:25
connect = smtp.gmail.com:465
verifyChain = yes
CAfile = ca-certs.pem
checkHost = smtp.gmail.com
OCSPaia = yes

I have pasted in only the stuff that isn't commented out.

Why does this not work after a reboot? It makes no sense.

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    Lee Savidge
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