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Gravity - No Longer Connects to News Server

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Boris

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May 1, 2022, 7:35:32 PM5/1/22
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I had Gravity configured and working fine.

Today, I had to reset my wifi router (Netgear R6400). Even though Gravity
is running on my ethernet connection to the router, when I launch Gravity,
I get this:

https://postimg.cc/8JrnhC1j

Reboot of desktop does no good.

Any ideas?

TIA

Boris

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May 4, 2022, 6:11:54 PM5/4/22
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Anthony Soprano <Sop...@newjersey.invalid> wrote in
news:t4upka$fbd$1...@dont-email.me:
> SSL server on eternal-september is down. You can set up your news
> reader to use port 119

It's very odd. Both my Gravity and Xnews readers have eternal-september
set up as port 119. It seems that what allows me to log on to eternal-
september when I get that error, is that I have to change server settings
between

Log on using: Name and password
and
Log on using: Secure password authentication

https://postimg.cc/mcLbt0Q1

That is, everytime I get the error message, I have to disable one and
enable the other log on setting. I may try Gravity on Windows 10 (this
is Windows 7).
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