>Interesting, I hadn't heard of stunnel before. It looks like a proxy service. The way I read it you would need to configure 2 things:
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>- Configure stunnel to talk to GMail on the port GMail expects (465 for SSL?) and to accept incoming (local) connections on some port you specify (e.g. port 5000)
>- Configure your mail client to talk to localhost on port 5000. The outgoing traffic will then go to stunnel, which will forward it on to the configured GMail port
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>Example setup at http://www.charmedquark.com/vb_forum/showthread.php?t=7943

Yes, Al, that's how it's supposed to work. that is actually the exact web page I used to get started.