I just switched over to FiOS (from verizon.net). Their NNTP, POP and
SMTP servers require authentication. OK, how do I enable those? At least
pine asks me for username/password for the SMTP server (that's how I'm able
to send this). There was always a password on the POP server, so no change
for fetchmail. But trn barfs on their news server, saying
Connecting to news...Done.
Failed to open news server news:
480 Authentication Required
I find on the net lots of things saying trn supports AUTHINFO GENERIC, but
nowhere do I see how. The closest is
http://www.io.com/support/docs/shell_news_auth.html, but the method they say
has no effect. The file is being accessed:
open("/home/eben/.trn/access", O_RDONLY) = 3
I copied /usr/share/trn4/HelpFiles/samples/access to ~/.trn/access, but
could not make much sense of it.
Has anyone done this, or something similar?
If trn can't do it for some reason, I don't really mind switching to another
CLI newsreader.
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