Re: what are the email programs that are still compatible with XP and support encrypted connections ?

Adman,

> How are you still on XP/OE6? I thought that stuff was rendered unusable
> a few years back with new SSL/TLS encryption.

In regard to newsgroup messages ?    I think that ES has recognised that 
there is zero reason to encrypt their connections.   Newsgroup posts are 
public by definition, and there is no mechanism in place to make sure that 
usernames and/or email adresses cannot be spoofed.

As for my ISPs email ?   It only switched to a higher encryption at the end 
of last year, at which moment I wrote a small wrapper using ssleay/libeay to 
encrypt that connection.

But the same here, there is no mechanism in place to stop someone from 
spoofing someone else.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser