[stunnel-users] smtp and tls

Fri Oct 21 16:04:26 CEST 2005

You were right Scott... works just like you said.  I didn't realize 
stunnel had added this functionality.  If I can find the post again, 
referring to your patch, I'll forward it to you.

--
Andy

Scott Gifford wrote:

>Andy Cravens <acravens at uen.org> writes:
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>>Does stunnel support using TLS with SMTP?  My SMTP server requires TLS
>>but my client does not support it.  Unfortunately, my SMTP server does
>>not support SMTP over SSL so my only choice is to use TLS.  I've seen
>>some old threads concerning a patch to stunnel 3.x to do TLS but I
>>read it was not a good solution.  Does anybody have any information or
>>opinions on this?
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>That's probably my patch; where did you read it wasn't a good
>solution, and what were the reasons?
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>It looks like stunnel 4 can support STARTTLS for SMTP with the:
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>    protocol = smtp
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>option in the config file, though I haven't tried it that way myself.
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>----Scott.
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