Re: [leafnode-list] leafnode 1.9.28 and SSL update

[Matthias Andree <ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andy Piper <andy.piper@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 22:07, Andy Piper wrote:
>> ... It certainly doesn't work if I point Pan
>> directly at localhost configured with stunnel to SF, passing username
>> and password from Pan itself.
>
> That would be because SF was asleep. It worked eventually. This implies
> that authentication details need to be set inside the leafnode
> configuration file, which is as I expected - but worth making clear in
> the FAQ.

Besides that, the SF NNTP server is worse than any other NNTP server
I've seen before. They claim RFC-977 compliance, but don't implement
HELP, HEAD, BODY, STAT -- leafnode 1.9 is out of the play for now.

Also, they violate RFC-2980, "XOVER 1-" won't work either, but does not
affect leafnode.

-- 
Matthias Andree

http://sourceforge.net/projects/leafnode/   - leafnode-1 tarballs
http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/beta/ - leafnode-2 tarballs

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