The changelog of stunnel 4.33 states that "Experimental support for local mode on WIN32 platform" is working and that should be tried exec = c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe In practice, it is for me not working, a connection is accepted but always reset with the stunnel log message: readsocket: Connection reset by peer (WSAECONNRESET) (10054) It was tested using the 4.35 Windows installer. Are there other requirements or settings necessary? Is a recompilation with special options senseful? Thanks! Joerg