Re: Accessing Secnews
- Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:58:45 -0700
- From: Blinky the Shark <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Accessing Secnews
Jay Garcia wrote:
> On 04.07.2008 00:18, clay wrote:
>
> --- Original Message ---
>
>> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>>> clay wrote:
>>>> Jay Garcia wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> My umpteen year old work profile worked without tweaking. No joy
>>>>>> from the newer install home box.
>>>>>> Interesting, made a test post in testing. Wouldn't let me post with
>>>>>> only a Subject. Had to put something in the body for the post to be
>>>>>> accepted. This a new feature?
>>>>> The 40 bit encryption block was only added in the TB 2.0.0.xx versions,
>>>>> don't remember which one started it as well as the later Seamonkey
>>>>> versions. If you're using an older TB or SM or Mozilla for that matter
>>>>> then you don't need to tweak the setting(s) in about:config.
>>>>>
>>>> Home box= Version 1.5.0.14ubu (20080306)
>>>> The settings are there and tweaked...
>>>> Still can't get in. 'Connection to server secnews... timed out.'
>>>> It worked before the expiration.
>>> are you using port 563 and is SSL checked?
>>>
>> Yup...
>
> Check your firewall settings/permissions. "Timed out" and "Connection
> refused" are not the same thing, the latter being the one if your SSL
> setting are not set to "true".
Jay, I'm probably just burning up my Stupid Question For The Month at a
very early date, but what's the advantage to the user of using the
secnews server?
--
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