newsreader connecting on port 563

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bris.ac.uk
Fri Feb 6 08:40:49 UTC 2015


>From kpneal at pobox.com Thu Feb  5 19:28:26 2015
>
>On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 07:58:19AM -0800, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>> >From kpneal at pobox.com Thu Feb  5 15:18:31 2015
>> >
>> >You'll need to use a newsreader that supports nntp over tls.
>> 
>> Can you suggest one?
>> 
>> Thanks
>
>A quick google of "slrn tls" shows that slrn is probably able to do it if
>configured that way at compile time. You'll also need to take the other
>suggestion of prefixing the server hostname with "snews://" (no quotes).
>So try that prefix and it might work already.

Yes, it does.
Shame nn does not, I'm used to it.

Thanks

Anton


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