[stunnel-users] Stunnel 4 failing to connect to gmail

[Asif Iqbal]

I am faling to connect to gmail. Not sure what that bind error means.

iqbala at ghar:~$ sudo stunnel4
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Snagged 64 random bytes
from /home/iqbala/.rnd
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes
to /home/iqbala/.rnd
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: RAND_status claims
sufficient entropy for the PRNG
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: PRNG seeded successfully
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Certificate: /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Certificate loaded
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Key file: /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Private key loaded
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: SSL context initialized for
service ssmtp
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG5[3839:3083650736]: stunnel 4.22 on
i486-pc-linux-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG5[3839:3083650736]: Threading:PTHREAD
SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6 Auth:LIBWRAP
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG6[3839:3083650736]: file ulimit = 1024 (can be
changed with 'ulimit -n')
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG6[3839:3083650736]: poll() used - no FD_SETSIZE
limit for file descriptors
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG5[3839:3083650736]: 500 clients allowed
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: FD 10 in non-blocking mode
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: FD 11 in non-blocking mode
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: FD 12 in non-blocking mode
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on
accept socket
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG3[3839:3083650736]: Error binding ssmtp to
74.125.93.111:587
2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG3[3839:3083650736]: bind: Cannot assign
requested address (99)

Here is how my conf file looks like

iqbala at ghar:~$ cat /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf | egrep -v "^;|^$"
cert = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem
foreground = yes
sslVersion = SSLv3
chroot = /var/lib/stunnel4/
setuid = stunnel4
setgid = stunnel4
pid = /stunnel4.pid
socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1
socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1
debug = 7
output = /var/log/stunnel4/stunnel.log
client = yes
[ssmtp]
accept  = smtp.gmail.com:587
connect = 25

Asif Iqbal
PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu