Dear subscribers I am new to this so I dont know if this is just wrong configuration (that does not trigger an error message). Searching on the web for the following problem shows someone reporting sth similar on a Linux machine. I am using the newest version of stunnel (5.24) on Windows 7 and there is an stunnel thread starting that takes 100% of one core forever. I have attached a ProcMon trace with activated Registry/Filesystem/Network/Process events. The thread starts at 22:03:55 (which is 30 seconds after stunnel-start and at a time at which I did not use stunnel). The events after that follow that event are my pressing exit. Attachements: stunnel config, procMon-trace Thank you! Ben [myEmailIn] client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:180 connect = imap.gmx.net:993 verify = 2 CAfile = ca-certs.pem checkHost = mail.gmx.net [myEmailOut] client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:181 connect = mail.gmx.net:465 verify = 2 CAfile = ca-certs.pem checkHost = mail.gmx.net ; ***************************************** Example TLS server mode services [myServer] accept = 9999 connect = 7777 cert = stunnel.pem