Hi Pieter,

Sorry for the delay in my reply I've been away for a few days. However, I'm not using STunnel on a Windows System so I'm going to advise as best I can but also please also note that I'm new to STunnel too but learning fast ;)

The thing that I would try first would be to edit your stunnel.conf file to the following:

============================================== # GLOBAL OPTIONS

client = yes output = stunnel-log.txt debug = 7 fips = no options = NO_SSLv2 options = NO_SSLv3

# SERVICE-LEVEL OPTIONS

[SMTP Gmail] accept = 192.168.3.11:465 connect = smtp.gmail.com:465 ==============================================

If you then try this and if it still does not work send us the debug info from the stunnel-log.txt file. I'm guessing though that there is some issue with the SSLv3 certificate between you and Google.

~Yours, Scott

On 2 April 2012 22:39, Verberne, Pieter pab.verberne@gmail.com wrote:

** Hi Scott,

Thank you for your reply.

I'm afraid that this thing is becoming too difficult for me, but nevertheless I do want to pursue the issue and I do appreciate your help.

First things first. When running 'stunnel -version' from the command line with the config file below, the one that works for Gmail I get this:

stunnel.conf:

# GLOBAL OPTIONS

client = yes output = stunnel-log.txt debug = 0

# SERVICE-LEVEL OPTIONS

[SMTP Gmail] accept = 192.168.3.11:465 connect = smtp.gmail.com:465

The result from running 'stunnel -version':

stunnel 4.53 on x86-pc-mingw32-gnu platform Compiled/running with OpenSSL 0.9.8s-fips 4 Jan 2012 Threading:WIN32 SSL:+ENGINE+OCSP+FIPS Auth:none Sockets:SELECT+IPv6

Global options: debug = notice RNDbytes = 64 RNDoverwrite = yes taskbar = yes

Service-level options: ciphers = FIPS (with "fips = yes") ciphers = ALL:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!EXP:!LOW:-MEDIUM:RC4:+HIGH (with "fips = no") curve = prime256v1 session = 300 seconds sslVersion = TLSv1 (with "fips = yes") sslVersion = TLSv1 for client, all for server (with "fips = no") stack = 65536 bytes TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds verify = none

Server is down

And then this error message

This beats me because I can send emails with blat and stunnel this way to the gmail server end receive the message within seconds. When checking with msconfig.exe de stunnel service is up and running.

The error message is clear: my stunnel.conf is invalid! Is it? Can you suggest what to change in stunnel.conf? If that corrects the problem I can then again try with Ziggo.

I did try all sorts of configurations based on information found on the internet

Many thanks for your help en best regards,

Pieter

Scott McKeown schreef, op 2-4-2012 12:11:

Hi Pieter,

What does stunnel -version show under the 'ciphers' section?

Also have you tried this with the 'options = NO_SSLv3' commented out?

~Scott