"Ian Boag" ian.boag@gmail.com wrote in message news:CAN-EhcF68bG4scHwhdTTF_Wp_6jb_in_f1Z-5YFyx-Tf3LCX+A@mail.gmail.com...
To run stunnel as an app rather than a service.
Unzip all the stuff .... at a command prompt (or in a batch file) do
start /b stunnel.exe
This will bring up the stunnel symbol in the tray as well.
When you have finished with it
taskkill /f /im stunnel.exe
Works for me. The first time you run it you may get a bit of firewall stuff to cope with, but that is just a oncer, However, when you kill it, the tray icon does not disappear (on my Vista machine). So if I do it all again I get two tray icons, then three then etc etc.
If I put the mouse on the row of tray icons after killing stunnel, they all disappear ... go figure
I'm using stunnel with blat to give me "email-from-anywhere" functionality.
Hi, Ian.
I know I used the word zip to make my inquiry, and that did confuse the issue a bit. Here is my thought stated a bit more clearly. Although I don’t see a zip file per se, I do see an EXE installer. I can open this installer easily enough using 7-zip and see all the files inside it. I am wondering whether there is any reason I should not simply have 7-zip extract the contents into a single folder of my choice and then fire up the main program executable, which, I think, would then create its own working ini or config file with default values. I could then edit these defaults to my specifications and I should be good to go.
Does that sound like a viable approach? I don’t want to loose any security benefits. However, if at all possible, I want to avoid registry entries, etc. If I intend to run the program only as an application at this point, not as a service, would this work? Thanks.
John