[20800] in Athena Bugs
Re: 9.1.16: mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Sep 25 12:15:03 2002
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 12:14:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Arun A Tharuvai <aatharuv@MIT.EDU>
cc: <bugs@MIT.EDU>, <usenet@MIT.EDU>
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I will try to force Mozilla in its globals into thinking that news servers
do not use SSL by default.
I believe if you uncheck the "uses SSL" box for the news account's
configuration in Mozilla, you'll find that the port automatically changes
back to one down in the hundreds, probably 119 if that is a standard. It's
been pretty good about guessing the right port defaults, but bad about
guessing on SSL use.
This is exacerbated by the fact that we try to turn ON SSL by default so
that people will not misconfigure their MIT IMAP accounts. Mozilla may use
one default SSL setting for all mail/news account creation, in which case
I can't change it; it's vital that we keep people from trying to check
their mail insecurely.
I'll take a look. I think that changing the news.mit.edu configuration is
the wrong answer in any case.
- Todd Belton
On 24 Sep 2002, Arun A Tharuvai wrote:
>
> By default, mozilla connects to news servers using SSL on port
> 563. news.mit.edu doesn't accept connection on this port. As a result,
> users who have just gone through Mozilla's configuration wizard will,
> upon trying to subscribe to news groups, receive an error to the
> effect of "Can't connect to the news server".
>
> Could either the news.mit.edu maintainers allow SSL connections on
> port 563, or, if this is doable, could the default mozilla
> configuration on athena be configured to point to news.mit.edu on port
> 119?
>
> Arun
>
