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   s|b to lisa   
   Re: DistroWatch Q&A: Advice for new Linu   
   30 Oct 25 21:40:24   
   
   From: me@privacy.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:18:33 +0100, lisa wrote:   
      
   > I run  Forté Agent without problems ( email and newsgroups )   
   > on Mint v22.x in PlayOnLinux with Wine v9. You don't need to run it in   
   > PlayOnLinux, but for the moment I use POL as frontend.   
      
   I will give it a go. Last time I tried this it was under Wine. I also   
   remember the fonts acting funky: unread messages not bold or coloured   
   red. But there was a fix to this (choose another font).   
      
   > you need to make the following configuration change in AGENT.INI.   
   >   
   > AllowedSSLProtocols=2688   
   >   
   > if that's your problem with running  Forté Agent on Mint.   
      
   This is now set to   
      
   AllowedSSLProtocols=10880   
      
   This was based on:   
      
   From: Ralph Fox   
   Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent   
   Subject: Notice:  Agent and SSL   
   Message-ID:    
   Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 16:22:04 +1300   
      
   because I'm running W11. Your setting is meant for Windows before   
   Windows 10 version 1903.   
      
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