INN with SSL encryption

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, [iso-8859-1] Julien ÉLIE wrote:

> > For clients that use the old-fashioned port 563, 
> 
> Do you think that using port 563 should be discouraged?

Yes, exactly as it says in the message you quoted.


> 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).

You should complain to the authors!  (For Thunderbird at least they might 
listen.)

I'm not sure which clients support STARTTLS, honestly.  Gnus maybe?


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org