[sylpheed:36013] Re: Can't connect to NNTP server

[YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:55:47 +0100
Sébastien <ml at terranean.eu> wrote:

> Le 2014-02-28 à 14:21, YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List a écrit:
> > On some News server (comp.mail.sendmail and comp.mail.mutt), I got
> > this error message: "Error: can't retrieve newsgroup list".
> > 
> > In the "Tools > Log window" menu, I can read:
> > "* creating NNTP connection to comp.mail.mutt:119 ...
> > ** LibSylph-WARNING: [14:19:08] Can't connect to NNTP server:
> > comp.mail.mutt:119
> > 
> > ** Can't connect to NNTP server: comp.mail.mutt:119"
> 
> Sylpheed can't connect because those aren't news servers, but
> newsgroups. To join these groups, you have to find them in the list of
> groups given by the news servers (news.eclipse.org or news.proxad.fr),
> and check the box on the left of the group you want to subscribe to.
> 
> -- 
> Sébastien

Indeed, I found these "comp.mail.sendmail" and "comp.mail.mutt" newsgroups in the "news.proxad.fr" news server.
Problem solved.