Malcolm,

<< but it depends on whether you believe in conspiracies!    >>

I was just wanting to check out what people are saying about the new price/licensing model of the Raize Components (now Konopka Signature VCL Controls), and the forums were dead, so...

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Fernando Dias
[Team Elevate]

On 8/30/2015 3:20 AM, Malcolm wrote:
> *  Use port 563
> *  Use SSL ... even though is it documented as being optional.
> Now XanaNews retrieves the Embarcadero posts again ... and I am
> catching up on my lurking.  


Interestingly this is not working for me - using Thunderbird though.

Port 119 times out.

SSL on 563 gives no error and seems to work but i'm not seeing new
messages and more interestingly it fails to even retrieve a list of
available newsgroups (i unsubscribed from a NG and now i can't even
re-subscribe since it won't show it ).


Raul

Malcolm


Thanks for the info - I'm either going to have to resurrect my D6 installation to update my homebrew email/news client or start using Xana

Special ports and SSL were not options I built in for news - thankfully I did for emails.

Roy Lambert

Raul wrote:

> SSL on 563 gives no error and seems to work but i'm not seeing new
> messages and more interestingly it fails to even retrieve a list of
> available newsgroups (i unsubscribed from a NG and now i can't even
> re-subscribe since it won't show it ).

Not my area of expertise.  o(  
I assume your login credentials are correct. <shrug>

On 8/31/2015 3:39 AM, Malcolm wrote:
> Not my area of expertise.  o(
> I assume your login credentials are correct. <shrug>

Browsing the forums it appears they finally upgraded the back-end Aug
23rd and Thunderbird does not like SSL (looks like explicit vs implicit
SSL issue).

Tried Xananews and that one can retrieve everything just fine.

Raul

On 8/29/2015 9:36 AM, Raul wrote:
> I realize it's bit unfair but i can't interpret it as anything other
> than pure incompetence and disrespect for their customers by not keeping
> basic newsgroups active.

Looks like i have to eat my words - they did upgrade the back-end server
and database on Aug 23rd and the forums appear to be operational and way
faster.

They did kill (not enable?) plain text NNTP access and for some reason
Thunderbird is not compatible with TLS option but at least using
Xananews i don't have to use the web interface.

Raul

On 8/31/2015 9:33 AM, Raul wrote:
> Browsing the forums it appears they finally upgraded the back-end Aug
> 23rd and Thunderbird does not like SSL (looks like explicit vs implicit
> SSL issue).

Actually it's a weak server TLS issue and somebody has actually posted
steps to get Thunderbird working for anybody interested :

https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=117291&tstart=0

Raul

Malcolm


Thank you for the information - I reloaded my D6 VM, brought mind back into sync with software I hadn't touched for nearly a decade, found all the places I had to alter from the standard NNTP of 119 and I'm in business until the next time they do something weird.

Embarcadero are so good (for some value of good) at sending out marketing messages I do wish they'd add something like this to them

Roy Lambert