Re: NNTPS?
Adam Sjøgren <[email protected]>
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Dmitry writes:
>> So if you use some other [newsreading] software,
>
> No, I am not. ;-)
Oh, good, then there is no problem :-)
>> If said software implements STARTTLS for SMTP, I guess it would be hard
>> to argue not to support it for NNTP?
>
> Sure, but in the case of aforementioned examples, there is no need to _argue_.
>
> Thunderbird developers are able to completely ignore the request, that
> is to continue doing what they have been doing quite well for more
> than ten years.
Of course, but it's hard for them to argue that it would be a burden to
do. They can of course still ignore NNTP, as 99.99999%¹ of their users
do :-)
> And Pan does not support STARTTLS for SMTP, as it does not support
> SMTP or any other protocol other than NNTP at all.
Exactly why I said *IF* the software supports...
(Pan doesn't render Content-Type: text/html, so it's less than usable in
my eyes anyway ;-))
Best regards,
Adam
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