On 23.06.02 00:19, Brian Heinrich Replied As Follows: --- Original Message ---
> On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 22:52:27 -0500, it is alleged that Jay Garcia > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> swaggered in to > netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and announced: > >>On 22.06.02 22:43, Bruno Walter Replied As Follows: >> >>--- Original Message --- >> >>> On 23 Jun 2002, Brian Heinrich was seen to have posted this wee note >>> into netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news, to which I have responded as >>> follows: >>> >>>> Er . . . neither Agent nor Xnews have built-in SSL (and I'm having no >>>> luck getting a proxy set up); Xnews supports multiple servers, and >>>> Agent apparently will do so in the near future. . . . >>> >>> OK - Agent is considered to be better than Xnews, and so I thought that if >>> Xnews can do it then so can Agent. > > You'd think, eh? But no, not yet. . . . > >>> And I wasn't aware that Xnews couldn't access secure servers - It seems to >>> be able to do everything else, (shows how often I look at a secure server. >>> :o) > > Methinks I begin to understand the hassles some people have when 'snews:' is > mentioned. . . . > >>> Bruno Walter >>> >> >>Agent and Xnews can access secure servers using "stunnel" >>http://www.stunnel.org > > Except that, due to a bad decision some time in the '80s -- I ditched the > sciences for the humanties, so Macs made sense -- , I'm rather inept with > command-line stuff. Hell, I barely ever scratched the surface of DOS, and > haven't been near it in nearly 15 years; I can barely remember how to cd. > > So, um, unless I get a step-by-step on running stunnel under Win 98, I'm pretty > much SOL. > > Trying to use NewsProxy (a.k.a. nfilter), the operation times out in Xnews > before the timeout set in NewsProxy. Firewall (Kerio; I was getting tired of > ZA) indicates that NP is connecting out properly. > > Near as I can tell, I haven't mis-configured anything ('cept, possibly, the > listen port), but that, I'm afraid, doesn't mean much in this instance. . . . > > And this is /so/ far OT that it isn't even funny. . . . > > - B. > My "stunnel" command line for accessing secnews.netscape.com G:\xnews\Stunnel\stunnel-3.11.exe -c -d 1199 -r secnews.netscape.com:563 This suffices for Xnews as well as Agent. Of course, both newsreaders are setup accordingly in their respective options, etc. -- Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org ** Post To Group ONLY, do NOT email **
