INN with SSL encryption

[Bill Davidsen]

Julien ÉLIE wrote:
> 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?
>
>   
Seeing the tone of the responses, I would say NO. Support for STARTTLS 
is just not common in the clients people actually use. Since most 
clients know about 563 (it's a "known service"), I think that just a 
clarification about the issues of nntps vs. STARTTLS would be the right 
way to go.
>   
>> 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).
>
>   
I'll check if seamonkey has the feature in the pending new revivion, the 
old one doesn't seem to.
-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  "Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still
  be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark