On 02.Mai.2013, at 00:54, Rock wrote: > I also found out elsewhere that Thunderbird has native > SSL support - but TB treats NNTP as SMTP which makes > it difficult, if not unwieldy to use. What exactly do you mean with that? At times I use thunderbird with the gmane news to mail gateway and it seemed to worked great for me. I did not bother with ssl for that, though. -- Markus