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

[Asif Iqbal]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Scott Gifford
<sgifford at suspectclass.com> wrote:
> "Asif Iqbal" <vadud3 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> I said it too soon. It passed that bind error but it still failing in ssl.
>> I am seeing   `SSL alert (write): fatal: handshake failure'
>
> Hello again Asif, glad you decided to try out stunnel!

Yep, as you suggested :-)

>
> Try using port 465 instead of 587.

That worked! I were able to send an email and I did receive it. It
says the email came from `vadud3 at gmail.com'
instead of the sender, which is me at myhomecomputer.domain

I am using this in /etc/nullmailer/remotes file

localhost smtp --port=25 --user=vadud3 --pass=s3cr3t

>
> It looks like Google's STARTTLS command requires an EHLO to be sent
> first, which is a someqhat unusual requirement.  I don't think stunnel
> does that.  Port 465 will start talking SSL directly, without
> requiring SMTP commands first.
>
> Good luck!
>
> ----Scott.
>



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