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Date:      Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:40:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk>
To:        kpneal@pobox.com, mexas@bris.ac.uk
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re:  newsreader connecting on port 563
Message-ID:  <201502060840.t168eHwT080609@mech-as221.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20150205181905.GB77244@neutralgood.org>

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>From kpneal@pobox.com Thu Feb  5 19:28:26 2015
>
>On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 07:58:19AM -0800, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>> >From kpneal@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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