[21066] in Athena Bugs
Re: 9.1.16: mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Nov 13 16:29:48 2002
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:29:38 -0500 (EST)
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 have a record of having answered this but I don't recall my previous
reply, and it's too old to have been kept. At any rate, I checked on it in
passing again today, and it doesn't look like I can turn off the SSL
default selectively: If I turn it off when you create a new news account,
I also turn it off when you create a new mail account, and that we cannot
do - we really need to default to using SSL for MIT mail.
So right now, yes, if you create a news account, it will default to
talking using SSL/port 563, which news.mit.edu does not respond to.
However, if you uncheck the "use SSL" box in the account's configuration,
it will change back to port 119 automatically.
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
>
