INN with SSL encryption
Julien ÉLIE
julien at trigofacile.com
Thu Feb 28 09:49:35 UTC 2008
Hi Jeff,
> For clients that use the old-fashioned port 563, you may need to have your
> server listening (either using `nnrpd -D` or inetd/xinetd).
"Old-fashioned"?
I saw one of your mail on that subject:
http://lists.eyrie.org/pipermail/ietf-nntp/2005-June/005567.html
Do you think that using port 563 should be discouraged?
> If you compiled INN with OpenSSL support, then clients should already be
> able to access encryption if they know how to use the STARTTLS command.
I have just tried and unfortunately neither Outlook Express/Windows Mail
nor Thunderbird currently know how to use STARTTLS with NNTP (but with POP
and SMTP, they do).
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Julien ÉLIE
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