* news server account with gnus
@ 2016-12-01 1:52 Matthew Pritchard
2016-12-01 2:22 ` John Mastro
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From: Matthew Pritchard @ 2016-12-01 1:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
I have a usenet account with the server beeng news.usenet.net <http://news.usenet.net/> port 119,23, or 80 without ssl. The account has a username and password. can anyone describe to me how to get this to work?
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* Re: news server account with gnus
2016-12-01 1:52 news server account with gnus Matthew Pritchard
@ 2016-12-01 2:22 ` John Mastro
2016-12-01 3:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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From: John Mastro @ 2016-12-01 2:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; +Cc: Matthew Pritchard
Matthew Pritchard <wintermute24x7@icloud.com> wrote:
> I have a usenet account with the server beeng news.usenet.net
> <http://news.usenet.net/> port 119,23, or 80 without ssl. The account
> has a username and password. can anyone describe to me how to get this
> to work?
Put this in your init file to tell Gnus about the server:
(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.usenet.net"))
And create a file ~/.authinfo with contents like:
machine news.usenet.net login USERNAME password PASSWORD
Replacing USERNAME and PASSWORD as appropriate, of course. That
tells Gnus about the credentials. Make sure only your user can read and
write to it:
chmod 600 ~/.authinfo
Port 119 is the default for NNTP so that shouldn't require any
configuration.
Hopefully that gets you started. Gnus has good documentation[1] and
there are a number of tutorials out there. Admittedly, it can be an
overwhelming amount of information, but it sounds like you can ignore
everything except NNTP (usenet).
John
[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/index.html#Top
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2016-12-01 2:22 ` John Mastro
@ 2016-12-01 3:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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From: Eric Abrahamsen @ 2016-12-01 3:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com> writes:
> Matthew Pritchard <wintermute24x7@icloud.com> wrote:
>> I have a usenet account with the server beeng news.usenet.net
>> <http://news.usenet.net/> port 119,23, or 80 without ssl. The account
>> has a username and password. can anyone describe to me how to get this
>> to work?
>
> Put this in your init file to tell Gnus about the server:
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.usenet.net"))
>
> And create a file ~/.authinfo with contents like:
>
> machine news.usenet.net login USERNAME password PASSWORD
>
> Replacing USERNAME and PASSWORD as appropriate, of course. That
> tells Gnus about the credentials. Make sure only your user can read and
> write to it:
>
> chmod 600 ~/.authinfo
>
> Port 119 is the default for NNTP so that shouldn't require any
> configuration.
>
> Hopefully that gets you started. Gnus has good documentation[1] and
> there are a number of tutorials out there. Admittedly, it can be an
> overwhelming amount of information, but it sounds like you can ignore
> everything except NNTP (usenet).
In fact, I think Gnus will create the .authinfo file and prompt you for
its contents if it doesn't exist -- won't it?
E
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