[stunnel-users] Dynamic hosts

Mon Jun 22 17:49:56 CEST 2009

Hello,

I have just set up stunnel to allow unsecured client pop3 connections  
to my secured pop3 server

chroot = /stunnel/
pid = /stunnel.pid

setuid = www
setgid = www

client = yes
foreground=yes
[995]
accept = localhost:10110
connect = mail.clearimageonline.com:995

And it works as expected.

Is there a way to set it up so it can dynamically connect to any server.

Something like...

connect = *:995

I was able to start a new instance of stunnel with a separate config  
file but this seems inefficient as it starts up 6 processes each time.  
What I would like to do is dynamically add/subtract servers that it  
can connect to.

My goal here is to build a webmail client that can use stunnel to do  
the secure connections to either POP or IMAP servers. My client  
software uses unsecured sockets.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Terry Riegel