Comments on: Using Blat, Stunnel and Gmail Together

By: Ilir

Ilir — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 21:34:48 +0000

@ECHO OFF
title Menuchoice
:home
color 17
ECHO Select a task:
ECHO ==============
ECHO.
ECHO 1) Install BLAT
ECHO 2) Install SMPT
ECHO q) Quit
ECHO.
set /p web=Type option:
if “%web%”==”1″ goto FIRST
if “%web%”==”2″ goto SECOND
if “%web%”==”q” Exit
cls
goto home

:FIRST
blat -install smtp.gmail.com JOHN.DOE@gmail.com -u JOHN.DOE -pw JOHNY1991 – – gmailsmtp
pause
cls
goto home

:SECOND
c:\windows\blat.exe -p gmailsmtp -to JOHN.DOE@gmail.com -subject “DEAR SANTA” -body “HOW ARE YOU” -server 127.0.0.1:1099
pause
cls
goto home

#whats the problem here, at the last i get errors; couldnt connect or when i change the
#servers ip it seems to attempt for connecting but after 10 sec, max it says the servers
#rejected the connection or something like that.
#i installed [stunnel-4.50-installer.exe](926KB) to the Program Files under C: and edited #stunnel.conf, moved the three (BLAT) files to the WIN directory and this batch i always #ran from there[which i think isnt the problem of the paths]

By: Ilir

Ilir — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:16:43 +0000

I still cant get this to work, please can you send me a link to that stunnel file because there are many and i dont know which file to download
thanks

By: Galen Wollenberg

Galen Wollenberg — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:00:15 +0000

i spent quite literally 2 weeks trying to get stunnel to work so my canon copier would talk to gmail.

the problem was that i could enable SSL on the canon copier but i could not change the port. so it wouldnt talk to gmail.

here is my stunnel.conf for any one who is having as much trouble as i did getting stunnel and gmail to work. the gmail account has pop/imap enabled in the mail settings in gmail. 192.168.150.2 is my internal windows server running stunnel. i could not get 127.0.0.1 to work. i just put my stunnel servers ip in the copier as the mail server 192.168.150.2. also i think i had to turn off smtp auth on the copier for it to work. your mileage may vary…

just copy paste this into your stunnel.conf for gmail.

cert = stunnel.pem
socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1
socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1
client = yes

[pop3s]
accept = 110
connect = pop.gmail.com:995

[imaps]
accept = 143
connect = imap.gmail.com:993

[ssmtp]
accept = 25
connect = smtp.gmail.com:465

By: Jeff Kastner

Jeff Kastner — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:21:36 +0000

Hi Pieter. I haven’t installed on W7 or 64-bit but the problem seems to definitely be that Stunnel is using 32-bit mode (as stated in your message header) and you’re installing on a 64-bit system. I don’t see separate binaries for these downloads, so I suspect that that there’s some editing needed in stunnel.conf.

Unfortunately, it’s been almost 2 years since I wrote this post or messed with Stunnel and I’ve only done it with XP so I’m not much help on the newer issues. It served my purpose well back when I wrote this post but I no longer need or use Stunnel.

Best of luck to you.

By: Pieter Verberne

Pieter Verberne — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:05:03 +0000

I have a pc with windows 7 – 64 bit and I am very eager to use Blat also with Google.

I have followed the instructions to install Stunnel literally:
“Now, start the service and then ‘Run Stunnel’ (both options from Program Files)”.

Apparently before starting the service I must install it. Correct?
After installing the service, starting it is no problem and it can be found in services.msc

The next step, ‘Run Stunnel’, is where it goes wrong and I have no clue what to do.

This is the message I get:

Stunnel 4.48 on Win32 (invalid stunnel.conf) [This is the message header]

No limit detected for the number of clients
make_sockets: s_socket#1: FD=464 allocated (blocking mode)
make_sockets: s_socket#2: FD=468 allocated (blocking mode)
make_sockets: s_accept: FD=472 allocated (non-blocking mode)
stunnel 4.48 on x86-pc-mingw32-gnu platform
Compiled/running with OpenSSL 0.9.8r-fips 8 Feb 2011
Threading:WIN32 SSL:ENGINE,FIPS Auth:none Sockets:SELECT,IPv6
Reading configuration from file stunnel.conf
FIPS_mode_set: 2D06906E: error:2D06906E:FIPS routines:FIPS_CHECK_INCORE_FINGERPRINT:fingerprint does not match

Server is down

End of message

Any help would be highly appreciated.
Many thanks indeed

If I can get this to work it is probably my best X-mas present. Thanks a lot Jeff

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:27:53 +0000

The message Error: Not a socket was caused due to another service, in my case c:\windows\system32\Lserver.exe (Terminal server Licensing) using the same port 1099. Not tested yet, but changing the port to another unused in the config file should solve the problem.
You can use the program “active ports” available in Internet to see what programis using that port.

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By: Jeff Kastner

Jeff Kastner — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:56:29 +0000

Thanks Paul. I appreciate the words. Glad it helped you out!

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:39:44 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks for this article, within 5 mins I had it running.
Came across blat today as needed to email backup logs from my Veritas server, then thought abou tusing it at home also.
Stunnel is cool.

By: Jeff Kastner

Jeff Kastner — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:43:13 +0000

Nice mention, Scott. I’m not familiar with sendEmail but it looks like a nice alternative solution.