Re: [SLUG] newsreaders vs verizon.net

From: Steven Buehler (swbuehler@gmail.com)
Date: Sat May 27 2006 - 22:45:31 EDT


Pine also access NNTP. Why therefore use trn?

SWB

On 5/27/06, Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? [TOFU := text oben,
> A: Top-posting. followup unten]
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet? -- Daniel Jensen
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked
> Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages
> posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
> official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
>

-- 
Steven Buehler | swbuehler@gmail.com
Notes from the Journey - http://www.stevenwbuehler.us
AIM: StevenBuehlerFL • Yahoo!: stevenwbuehler • MSN:
stevenwbuehler@msn.com• Skype/Gizmo: swbuehler
Gizmo Project softphone: +1 (775) 535-7251
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked
Knowledge Systems (NKS).  Views and opinions expressed in messages
posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Fri Aug 01 2014 - 19:25:45 EDT