[Pan-users] Re: Adding Netscape Secure News server to Pan

[Scott I. Remick]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:41:33 +0000, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:

> I have added my "normal" news server to Pan but I want to be able to add
> the secure Netscape News server on port 563. I go to the "Add Server"
> dialog box, enter the details and when I close I get the "Do you want to
> get a list of Newsgroups". I click "Yes" but nothing happens. Has anyone
> else tried to add this server with any success?

As far as I know, Pan doesn't support SSL news servers directly. All is
not lost, however. I use Pan to connect to the secure Netscape servers by
way of stunnel. My stunnel.conf looks like this:

client=yes
debug=7
 
[mozilla]
accept=7000
connect=secnews.netscape.com:563

Then in pan, setup a server of address "localhost" (no quotes),  and port
7000 (or whatever you chose).

If you run FreeBSD (as I do), stunnel is in /usr/ports/security/stunnel.
If you run anything else, go here: http://www.stunnel.org/