On Sat, 27 May 2006, Eben King 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
Figured it out. I make/modify .trn/access so it has:
[default]
NNTP Server = news.verizon.net
Auth User = myUsername
Auth Password = myPassword
make sure NNTPSERVER is not set (I'm not sure that it is right now), remove
the list of "read" articles in ~/.newsrc and start again (or don't remove
them and start with everything marked "read"), and Robert's your mother's
brother.
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