nntp and ssl

[Antoine Junod]

Hello,

I was using gnus to read my mails (IMAP + SSL) and news 
(NNTP) without any problem until my news provider updated 
the news server. NNTP is no longer supported and I have to 
use NNTP over SSL.

I've tried to change my conf as follow:

(setq gnus-select-method' 

                                       (nntp "news.epfl.ch" 



          (nntp-open-connection-function 
nntp-open-ssl-stream) 


          (nntp-port-number) 


          (nntp-address "news.epfl.ch")) 




But when i'm launching gnus, il says me
nntp (news.epfl.ch) open error: ''.  Continue? (y or n)

What should I try to debug that?

Network config seems a bit crazy for that server but 
thinderbird can handle that crazieness so i think it's not 
so important (look at the last steps):

zapata ~ # tcptraceroute news.epfl.ch 563
Selected device eth0, address 213.239.193.37, port 33726 for 
outgoing packets
Tracing the path to news.epfl.ch (128.178.50.84) on TCP port 
563 (nntps), 30 hops max
 1  213-239-193-33.clients.your-server.de (213.239.193.33) 
 0.414 ms  0.393 ms  0.450 ms
 2  et-2-14.RS86001.RZ3.hetzner.de (213.133.96.77)  0.865 
ms  0.287 ms  0.234 ms
 3  gi-upl.lambdanet.hetzner.de (213.239.240.195)  0.931 ms 
 0.294 ms  0.421 ms
 4  nbg.de.lambdanet.net (213.133.96.234)  1.182 ms  0.445 
ms  0.422 ms
 5  FRA-2-pos620.de.lambdanet.net (217.71.96.41)  4.295 ms 
 72.759 ms  4.421 ms
 6  FRA-11-pos300.de.lambdanet.net (217.71.105.94)  5.239 
ms  4.202 ms  4.445 ms
 7  FRA-8-pos300.de.lambdanet.net (217.71.105.225)  4.639 
ms  4.217 ms  4.181 ms
 8  ZUR-1-eth000-103.ch.lambdanet.net (80.86.163.26) 
17.382 ms  16.709 ms  16.714 ms
 9  swiix1-g2-1.switch.ch (194.42.48.11)  20.946 ms  20.725 
ms  20.531 ms
10  swiZH2-10GE-1-3.switch.ch (130.59.36.130)  21.051 ms 
20.340 ms  20.620 ms
11  swiEL2-G2-3.switch.ch (130.59.36.78)  20.842 ms  20.464 
ms  20.349 ms
12  news.epfl.ch (128.178.50.84)  21.376 ms  20.425 ms 
20.758 ms
13  news.epfl.ch (128.178.50.84)  21.235 ms  20.673 ms 
21.437 ms
14  news.epfl.ch (128.178.50.84)  20.425 ms  20.379 ms 
20.978 ms
15  news.epfl.ch (128.178.50.84) [open]  20.743 ms * 20.882 ms
zapata ~ #

I'm really sorry to typeset as a piggy but i'm not writing 
that post in emacs and the news reader i'm using does not 
seem to like me.

Thanks a lot for your help
-AJ