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

[Asif Iqbal]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Ludolf Holzheid
<lholzheid at bihl-wiedemann.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-15 14:14:56 -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
>> I am faling to connect to gmail. Not sure what that bind error means.
>>
>> [..]
>>
>> 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)
>
> Looks to me that either port 587 is already in use on your machine, or
> 74.125.93.111 is not its IP address.
>
>>
>> Here is how my conf file looks like
>>
>> [..]
>>
>> [ssmtp]
>> accept  = smtp.gmail.com:587
>> connect = 25
>
> Ah, o.k., you told stunnel to bind() to gmail and connect() to
> localhost. This should be the other way 'round: You want stunnel to
> accept connections from your mail client to localhost at port 25 and
> then connect to smtp.gmail.com at port 587.

doh!

It is working now.

Thanks a lot

>
> HTH,
>
> Ludolf
>
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