Configuration » Remote Server Settings: Common NNTP POP3 SMTP
Determines username and password to use for accessing this server.
Special: APOP authentication for POP3 servers
To use APOP for authentication, the password has to be preceded with "APOP:".
If your password "accidentially" starts with "APOP:", you may force
USER/PASS-authentication by preceding it with "PASS:".
Examples:
secret Uses USER/PASS with password "secret" (default)
APOP:secret Uses APOP with password "secret".
PASS:APOP:secret Uses USER/PASS with password "APOP:secret".
PASS:PASS:secret Uses USER/PASS with password "PASS:secret".
Override default timeout ... Connect
If given, this value overrides the default timeout.
Override default timeout ... Send/Receive
If given, this value overrides the default timeout.
Server is disabled, i. e. don't contact it
If marked, this server is not contacted any more. May be used to disable a server temporarily.
Use default SOCKS settings for this server
If SOCKS support is enabled, connections to all servers are made through SOCKS by default. To avoid using SOCKS for a specific server (e. g. to access an "intranet" server), this setting has to be unchecked.
If "SSL (secure port)" is selected, Hamster tries to establish a secure SSL connection to this server on the port number given when adding this server. If supported by the server, common port numbers are 995 for POP3 and sometimes 563 for NNTP (e. g. secnews.netscape.com and nntp.sourceforge.net both use 563).
If "SSL (TLS handshake)" is selected, Hamster tries to negotiate a secure SSL connection to this server on the default port, i. e. communcation starts normally and is then switched to SSL by a specific command. If a provider states to support SSL but does not give a specific port number for it, it's mostly this mechanism nowadays.
There are two additional "expert settings" named "Use SSL version" and "Use SSL cipher" that are used to establish such SSL connections. See "Reference: Server Settings" for details, but in most cases you can just ignore them.
Please note: If SSL support files are not installed (see "How to ..." link below) or a secure connection was selected but could not be established for any reason, the connection will fail with an appropriate error message. There will be no fallback to use a normal, insecure connection instead - you have to turn off SSL if you don't want it anymore.
How
to ... enable SSL support?