As yyou know there are two types of letting a local email client connect to 
remote secured SMTP server:

1.) through SSL-TLS
and
2.) through STARTTLS

How do I distinguish betwen these connection types in the stunnel.conf setup 
file?

In a previous post I was told to look at the "protocol" parameter.

Ok, if I specify 

protocol=smtp 

what does that mean: "Connect through SSL-TLS protocol" or "connect through 
STARTTLS protocol"?

It seems to me that I ALWAYS have to specify "protocol=smtp" for ALL 
smtp-server connects.

The stunnel documentation does not explain how to setup the *.conf file for 
each of the variants.

Is this done only by port number 465 vs 587?

That would mean there is a hidden configuration by convention!

What if the webhoster would set up a special mail server at port 8888?

Ben


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