Stunnel is a quick way on taking a non ssl connection and being able to wrap it in ssl for security stunnel version 4 - Fedora 12/RHEL 5.3 /Centos 5.3 vim /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf add in client=yes [gmail] accept = 127.0.0.1:50000 connect = mail.google.com:443 then run stunnel stunnel version 3 - Ubuntu 8.10 (I haven’t used newer versions) Ubuntu 8.10 has 2 versions of stunnnel: stunnel3 and stunnel4. They have created a symbolic link from /usr/bin/stunnel -> /usr/bin/stunnel3