FCKGW
join:2003-01-07
Eureka, CA | reply to bmn
Re: Bypassing the outgoing SMTP (port 25) block... If your mail client doesn't do SSL, try Stunnel.
Start it with the command "stunnel.exe -c -d 25 -r mail.server:465" (no quotes, and remove the .exe on *nix). Make a shortcut to it and put it in your StartUp group if you're on Windows. Set your mail client to use localhost as the outgoing mail server and you not only have SSL, but can bypass the stupid port 25 block! 
As long as you're doing this for SMTP, you might as well do it for POP3 or IMAP as well, since you send a password in plain text with those. Just replace 25 with 110 (for POP3) or 143 (for IMAP), and replace 465 with 995 (for POP3) or 993 (for IMAP). Now your password is sent encrypted. B)
There's some more examples listed on the Stunnel website.
I've been using this with Calypso since the port 25 outgoing block started. I started running Stunnel on all my machines, but now I just have it on my Linux file server. It listens for incoming SMTP and POP3 connections and forwards them on to my webhost's mail server over SSL. Calypso is set to use my file server as the SMTP and POP3 server, so all my mail is tunneled over Stunnel.
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