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As header may reveal, this is a Solaris box with xemacs-21.1.14 and
ognus-0.03.

I wanted to set up a foreign group for secnews.netscape.com.  I've
been using netscape to read some of these, but grow weary of it.

So, I pressed `^' to go into the server buffer, pressed `a' to add
another server ("netscape"), then pressed `e' to edit it as follows:

(nntp "netscape" 
      (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-ssl-stream) 
      (nntp-port-number "563") 
      (nntp-address "secnews.netscape.com")) 

However, after doing all of that, if I press `O' to open that
server, I get back "Couldn't open netscape".  If I just hit the
return key on that entry: "Unable to contact server netscape:".  I
even tried setting `debug-on-error' to `t', but nothing happens.

I know it is possible to do ssl connections because I'm using an ssl
connection to an imap server, and that seems to work fine[1].  Is
there something else I can try?

-Amos

Notes:
1. I don't know if the stunnel/openssl on the imap server are too
   old and/or buggy or what, but I've noticed that when I have gnus
   running all day, after a while the connection to this imap server
   will hang.  If it matters, it's also a foreign group, and I had
   that group at a level 2 so that a gnus-demon-add-handler thing
   could periodically check for new mail.  Don't know if that could
   be a contributing factor.  I guess the only way to track that
   down is to set nnimap-debug and let that buffer fill up, huh?