Re: NNTPS?

Dmitry Alexandrov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.discuss
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Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dmitry Alexandrov <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Is NNTP over TLS supposed to be functional here?  I recall, once it
>> was, but now it does not seem to be:
>
> No, but the server supports STARTTLS.

Thank you for the quick reply.  May I ask, what was the reason behind this decision?  Unfortunately, opportunistically secured NNTP is not supported by clients as widely as NTTPS is.

Namely, presumably the most popular free user-agents — Mozilla’s ones: Thunderbird and Seamonkey do not [0], and judging by the level of interest to this issue, they never will.  GNOME’s Pan seems neither.

[0] https://bugzil.la/420262
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