From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: news server account with gnus Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:56:24 -0800 Message-ID: <87zikg715j.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <7B89A2FD-B272-4D3E-B876-72045246038E@icloud.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480580495 7516 195.159.176.226 (1 Dec 2016 08:21:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 08:21:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 01 09:21:27 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCMcQ-0000fj-LE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:21:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48834 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCMcU-0007fr-I9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 03:21:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55102) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIUA-000745-Pz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:56:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIU6-0003H5-Ub for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:56:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=51717 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIU6-0003D7-Np for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:56:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCITy-0002eI-M5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 04:56:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Acs3eWvU/7/UfjAuhmLjs3tieK8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 03:19:56 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111842 Archived-At: John Mastro writes: > Matthew Pritchard wrote: >> I have a usenet account with the server beeng 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