Dom Incollingo wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am trying to access the Mozilla newsgroups using a laptop running Win > NT (company computer). I created an account for server > news.mozilla.org, and specified port 119 and no SSL. When I try to > receive messages for a mozilla newsgroup, I get an error message saying > "Could not connect to server news.mozilla.org; the connection was > refused." When I changed the account to port 563 and SSL selected, I > could connect to the newsgroup, but could not receive any messages dated > after March 2. > > I thought this might be a firewall issue, but I have a second computer > (from which I am writing this note) running Win 2K and plugged into the > same cable modem. On the second computer, the Mozilla newsgroup account > is set up using port 119 and no SSL. The second computer connects to > the newsgroup and receives all messages successfully!
Since you are behind a firewall, I assume you are using a proxy? If so, did you compare the proxy settings? Specifically look at the SOCKS proxy setting. I had to delete all the entries for that with the current Mozilla.
