Re: Securing Insecure SMTP

["Zed Qyves" <zqyves.spamtrap () gmail com>]

Hello,

It is not as easy as forwarding the connection as you still have to
pass the SSL negotiation on the server side. As such if the client
only speaks "pure" SMTP and does not cater for the SSL initialisation
part you will not have any luck with port forwarding.

Try STunnel (www.stunnel.org) or google for ssl proxy instead.

Best Regards,
./ZQ


On 10/6/08, Ahmed Zaki <ahmedmzaki () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
>
>
>                I am presented with a client software that attempts to
> connect to an smtp on port 25 . The good part is the smtp server does not
> accept connections on port 25 instead it uses the SSL smtp port. What I
> probably need is to proxy the outgoing connections to port 25 so that they
> go to the other port . Any recommendations on how to achieve that ?
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
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