On Fri, 3 May 2013 12:32:28 +0200 Markus Falb <wnefal at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. I'm using claws-mail to read gmane news. It support SSL in mail, probably will work for NNTP too. BR, Bob