[stunnel-users] stunnel not working properly on Redhat linux (fresh install)

[Peter Pentchev]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 03:14:27PM +0100, Klaus Kloeser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I have set up Stunnel as SSL Wrapper for googlemail on a Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.2 installation.
> 
> The stunnel.conf:
> 
> output = /var/log/stunnel.log 
> cert = /etc/pki/tls/certs/2019stunnel.pem 
> client = yes 
> sslVersion = TLSv1 
> ;fips=no 
> 
> [ssmtp] 
> accept = 1925
> connect=smtp.googlemail.com:587

If you want stunnel to accept plaintext (unencrypted) connections and to
establish an encrypted (SSL/TLS) connection to smtp.googlemail.com, you
will either need to change the port from 587 (the "submission" service,
a kind of simplified SMTP protocol) to 465 (SMTP over TLS), or, if you
really insist on connecting to the submission service and then starting
a TLS session, you will need to tell stunnel to start by speaking SMTP
and issuing a STARTTLS command by also specifying "protocol = smtp".
Either option (changing the connect line to specify port 465 or adding
a "protocol = smtp" line) should work, I just tested them on my Debian
setup.

Hope that helps!

G'luck,
Peter

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