Re: using ssl news servers

[Anne & Lynn Wheeler]

Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
 > watching the mozilla/thunderbird messages ...  they appear to be using
> smtp to post rather than nntp
> 
> gnus does nttp postings which works (on this service) with standard
> nttp/119 ... but apparently isn't supported for nntps/563.

and with a little more testing ... it appears that in some cases the
post actually gets out in nttps/563 case (with nntp-open-ssl-stream) ...
it is just that gnus/emacs hangs (forever) waiting for some sort of
completion and emacs has to be killed (and the openssl process goes into
solid compute loop ... and openssl process has to be killed).