Re: [Pan-users] Port 119 blocked - no newsgroup access!

[David Shochat]

On Fri, 22 May 2015 17:18:35 +0000, Maurice wrote:

> On Fri, 22 May 2015 16:36:43 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> 
>> Edit > Edit News Servers > [select server, gmane in this case] > Edit >
>> Security > TLS (SSL) settings > Use Secure SSL Connections.
> 
>   Edit News Servers shows no Security option for any of the servers.
>   
> The version of Pan I'm using is - according to Help/About:
> 
>   "Pan 0.139
>    Sexual Chocolate (GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2;
>    x86_64-mageia-linux-gnu)"

I think you missed a key part of what Duncan posted:
>>Assuming your pan binary was built with secure-connections 
>>support (it's a build-time option that adds a 
>>dependency on the GnuTLS library, so some builders
>>prefer to build without it)...
It sounds like you need to recompile, and this time say:
./configure --with-gnutls
(along with whatever additional options you want).