I’ve installed stunnel on an Amazon EC2 instance:
stunnel 4.56 on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu platform Compiled/running with OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013 Threading:PTHREAD Sockets:POLL,IPv6 SSL:ENGINE,OCSP,FIPS Auth:LIBWRAP
Global options: debug = daemon.notice pid = /var/run/stunnel.pid RNDbytes = 64 RNDfile = /dev/urandom RNDoverwrite = yes
Service-level options: ciphers = FIPS (with "fips = yes") ciphers = ALL:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!EXP:!LOW:-MEDIUM:RC4:+HIGH (with "fips = no") curve = prime256v1 sessionCacheSize = 1000 sessionCacheTimeout = 300 seconds sslVersion = TLSv1 (with "fips = yes") sslVersion = TLSv1 for client, all for server (with "fips = no") stack = 65536 bytes TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds verify = none
I’ve created the stunnel.conf file:
[smtp-tls-wrapper] accept = 2525 client = yes connect = email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com:465 protocol=smtp delay = yes
I’ve tested the connection to SES (successfully) via openssl:
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-4-68 ~]$ openssl s_client -quiet -crlf -connect email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com:465 depth=2 C = US, O = "VeriSign, Inc.", OU = VeriSign Trust Network, OU = "(c) 2006 VeriSign, Inc. - For authorized use only", CN = VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5 verify return:1 depth=1 C = US, O = Symantec Corporation, OU = Symantec Trust Network, CN = Symantec Class 3 Secure Server CA - G4 verify return:1 depth=0 C = US, ST = Washington, L = Seattle, O = "Amazon.com, Inc.", CN = email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com verify return:1 220 email-smtp.amazonaws.com ESMTP SimpleEmailService-2370111491 wa7VtNk9b7c4TX0jNpdG
But when I try to access through stunnel via localhost with telnet, I get this:
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-4-68 ~]$ telnet localhost 2525 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host.
I’ve tried everything I can think of; I’ve read all the blogs and pages related to connecting from ec2 to SES via stunnel and I just can’t get it to work. Does anyone have any suggestions for other things I could try?
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