Richard Falken wrote: > I have not been able to connect to any news provider using SSL or TLS with > Seamonkey yet. I have tried ternal-september, aioe and the mozilla service > but I always timeout when I try to establish an encrypted connection. I > suppose this means there is trouble on my end.
MOZILLA does not offer a secure connection to its NNTP server currently. Ask on port 563 and you won't get an IP paket back. Try > telnet news.mozilla.org 563 and the connection will simply timeout. ETERNAL-SEPTEMBER can securely accessed with two easy steps: 0. Check > telnet reader443.eternal-september.org 443 After some time you will get a "400 SSL connection failed" message. This is a good sign because the server tried to establish a secure connection. 1. Account Set up a news account in Seamonkey for reader443.eternal-september.org and port 443. When you now try to manage your subscriptions the list of news groups is empty. 2. Certificate In Seamonkey open Preferences > Privacy & Security > Ceritifcates > Manage Certificates > Servers > Add Exception. Type https://reader443.eternal-september.org in Location. Click Get Certificate. You will get a "Wrong Site" warning in the dialog box. Click Confirm Security Exception and OK. 3. Registration (Not described here) AIOE not described here. Hb _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
