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I have been having lots of timeouts with tin and
I asked about it in eternal-september.support.

A reply said you should try using TLS via port 563.
But tin version 2.6.1 that comes with Slackware 15.0 does
not support this.

So, I took the source of tin tin-2.6.5 from Current and
compiled/installed on my Slackware 15.0 system.

Before compiling you will need to add this argument
'--with-nntps' to the Slackbuild configure step.

I then changed the entry in my File /etc/nntpserver
from "reader443.eternal-september.org" to
"news.eternal-september.org" and the timeouts when away.

To execute you would is argument '-T', something like this:
% rtin -A -T

You can also supply optional argument "-t ###" where ###
is the number of seconds for timeouts. But I believe the
default of 120 will be fine for most people.

This may help out others have the same issue I have
been having.

So far so good,
Regards
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John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

I have been having lots of timeouts with tin and
I asked about it in eternal-september.support.

A reply said you should try using TLS via port 563.
But tin version 2.6.1 that comes with Slackware 15.0 does
not support this.

So, I took the source of tin tin-2.6.5 from Current and
compiled/installed on my Slackware 15.0 system.

Before compiling you will need to add this argument
'--with-nntps' to the Slackbuild configure step.

I then changed the entry in my File /etc/nntpserver
from "reader443.eternal-september.org" to
"news.eternal-september.org" and the timeouts when away.

To execute you would is argument '-T', something like this:
% rtin -A -T

You can also supply optional argument "-t ###" where ###
is the number of seconds for timeouts. But I believe the
default of 120 will be fine for most people.

This may help out others have the same issue I have
been having.

So far so good,
Regards

Interesting. I'm using tin-2.6.5 also with eternal-september as
my NNTP server and have had no problems at all. My compile options:


--with-gpg=/usr/local/bin/gpg --with-shell=/bin/bash --enable-nntp-only --enable-warnings --with-screen=terminfo --with-domain-name=<mydomain> --with-nntp-default-server=news.eternal-september.org --disable-ipv6 --with-coffee --disable-nls --with-included-gettext --with-Xaw3d --with-x

Compiles successfully, and all I do is pass -A to the binary at
the CLI.

BL.
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A Guy Called Tyketto <tyketto@sbcglobal.net.invalid> wrote:

John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

I have been having lots of timeouts with tin and
I asked about it in eternal-september.support.

<snip>

Interesting. I'm using tin-2.6.5 also with eternal-september as
my NNTP server and have had no problems at all. My compile options:

--with-gpg=/usr/local/bin/gpg --with-shell=/bin/bash
--enable-nntp-only --enable-warnings
--with-screen=terminfo --with-domain-name=<mydomain> >--with-nntp-default-server=news.eternal-september.org
--disable-ipv6 --with-coffee --disable-nls
--with-included-gettext --with-Xaw3d --with-x

Compiles successfully, and all I do is pass -A to the binary at
the CLI.

I decided to add and rebuild --with-gpg=/usr/local/bin/gpg
and --with-coffee.

But do you know what --with-coffee does ? I added it because
NetBSD pkgsrc also uses that option.

Thanks
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[t]csh(1) - "An elegant shell, for a more... civilized age."
- Paraphrasing Star Wars
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On Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:08:39 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:

I have been having lots of timeouts with tin and I asked about it in eternal-september.support.

I use eternal-september also. My newsreader is pan. My Slackware is
15.0, and I keep it mostly current. Last update was May 24, 2026,
although I can't say when pan itself was last updated. Anyway, no
trouble here.

Maybe gremlins?

-Joe
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