I am running 4.27 on Vista and can successfully start it and use Blat to e-mail via my gmail account using stunnel.

However, I have two questions:

Q1: I would like to close down stunnel after sending my e-mails. How can I do that on Vista?

Q2: Why do I get the following when I enter "stunnel -help" at the command line

A window with the heading "Stunnel 4.27 on Win32 (not configured)" that says: Stunnel server is down due to an error. You will need to exit and correct the problem Click OK to see the error log window

The error log is:

Global options compression = zlib|rle compression type debug = [facility].level (e.g. daemon.info) EGD = path to Entropy Gathering Daemon socket engine = auto|engine_id engineCtrl = cmd[:arg] output = file to append log messages RNDbytes = bytes to read from random seed files RNDfile = path to file with random seed data RNDoverwrite = yes|no overwrite seed datafiles with new random data service = service name socket = a|l|r:option=value[:value] set an option on accept/local/remote socket taskbar = yes|no enable the taskbar icon

Service-level options accept = [host:]port accept connections on specified host:port CApath = CA certificate directory for 'verify' option CAfile = CA certificate file for 'verify' option cert = certificate chain ciphers = list of permitted SSL ciphers client = yes|no client mode (remote service uses SSL) connect = [host:]port connect remote host:port CRLpath = CRL directory CRLfile = CRL file delay = yes|no delay DNS lookup for 'connect' option engineNum = number of engine to read the key from failover = rr|prio chose failover strategy ident = username for IDENT (RFC 1413) checking key = certificate private key local = IP address to be used as source for remote connections ocsp = OCSP server URL OCSPflag = OCSP server flags options = SSL option set an SSL option protocol = protocol to negotiate before SSL initialization currently supported: cifs, connect, nntp, pop3, smtp protocolAuthentication = authentication type for protocol negotiations protocolHost = host:port for protocol negotiations protocolPassword = password for protocol negotiations protocolUsername = username for protocol negotiations session = session cache timeout (in seconds) stack = thread stack size (in bytes) sslVersion = all|SSLv2|SSLv3|TLSv1 SSL method TIMEOUTbusy = seconds to wait for expected data TIMEOUTclose = seconds to wait for close_notify (set to 0 for buggy MSIE) TIMEOUTconnect = seconds to connect remote host TIMEOUTidle = seconds to keep an idle connection verify = level of peer certificate verification level 1 - verify peer certificate if present level 2 - require valid peer certificate always level 3 - verify peer with locally installed certificate

2009.11.11 13:03:36 LOG3[5440:5128]: Server is down