Many SMTP servers only support secure SSL connections. Unfortunately, SSL is not supported by PDW. This results in an error message 'Must issue a STARTTLS command first'
Many users have requested to put SSL email functionality into PDW, but there's a different solution:
stunnel. stunnel provides an SSL connection between your PC and your provider's secure SMTP server.
Follow these steps to configure stunnel and PDW:
- Download the installer executable
- Run the installer executable
- Run stunnel
- stunnel comes preconfigured for smtp.gmail.com. For other providers, press 'Configuration - Edit Configuration' and change the line connect = smtp.gmail.com:465 with your provider's SMTP address and port. Save the configuration file and press 'Reload Configuration' from the Configuration menu.
- Configure PDW to use IP address 127.0.0.1, port 25. This is your own PC aka localhost
- Tick 'Enable Authentication and fill your username and password
- Press 'Test' to verify that everything works fine
