For several days, I've been using Stunnel (with Blat) successfully (possibly with no intervening re-boots).

A day or so ago, the system was re booted

Today, however, Stunnel failed. I got the following Stunnel reply message:

No limit detected for the number of clients 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 Reading configuration from file stunnel.conf FIPS mode is enabled Compression not enabled Snagged 64 random bytes from .rnd Wrote 1024 new random bytes to .rnd PRNG seeded successfully Initializing inetd mode configuration Certificate: client.pem Certificate loaded Key file: client.pem Private key loaded SSL options set: 0x00000004 Accept option is not allowed in inetd mode Remove accept option or define a [section]

Server is down

The stunnel.conf file in the Stunnel directory is:

CAfile = cert.pem cert = client.pem client = yes RNDfile = .rnd

[gmail smtp] ; (I may have had this in or out before. In "cleaning up" various files, I may have thought this to be a comment, and removed it.) accept = 25 connect = smtp.gmail.com:465

The program fails both with and without the [gmail smtp] line included. Except, possibly, for removing ;[comment] lines, no other changes occurred.

Can somebody give me a clue as to the cause, and suggest the fix. I'm running Windows Vista. (I found the 17+ page instruction file, by Michal Trojnara, but didn't see a solution, there.)

Thanks.

Roger Bohl rhbohl@gmail.com 707-939-8459 PDT