From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Mastro Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: news server account with gnus Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:22:16 -0800 Message-ID: References: <7B89A2FD-B272-4D3E-B876-72045246038E@icloud.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480558993 27585 195.159.176.226 (1 Dec 2016 02:23:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 02:23:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Matthew Pritchard 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 03:23:08 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 1cCH1e-0006Aw-Fw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 03:23:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47605 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCH1i-00037f-8R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:23:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58005) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCH1C-00037T-Ic for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:22:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCH1B-0005au-Ka for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:22:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qk0-x234.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::234]:34445) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCH1B-0005ai-GH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:22:37 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-qk0-x234.google.com with SMTP id q130so43393587qke.1 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:22:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=gRfJCFvzK0I09xXIO5jli3C49QPJv9XraTT2BEHHZgg=; b=kGgmENL4b/pYAnPmVyOH1PXz3HyD+o/hMOswvsr938eL8cLrLbSb+UUOpIU49QIQFG +inhSzaJ5rxKFlcMAIUFhUPPbUXRih2LgYqjozPkOJTY0BU4n0KGzfXAMIgI+Dx+hb1h qzoBYdUifubUQ+yhfuAkYeI2p3Mg/OgA7sTxvw0svYvtamtf6ZNRgnpxID1a278jepT2 nFETOEmC2AwLm/RXQEA1xuApWPBFu/Vjrht08+Eu16WtaJIDIFdSsGEm0+eOZFkaMRJ5 wHpscGv31qwpyNvRWUSuS06MboJcb6vyMwFKen6UsyxflbYxGGfNY5RsFp2l8fFKiXqy 90Kg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=gRfJCFvzK0I09xXIO5jli3C49QPJv9XraTT2BEHHZgg=; b=FdjGC5PydWnfgn8gERLeR5FSPtPnHjqM0DVdYHkEU04NyOQ/BNB/E9DigYD6KGq/Mi 7Nubctb/v95xwGIU8G9BK7gMwXanq7MZGpBJetJt0Kh3uMRH1ZN8ToVkGd0dAYaH8oy6 lA3SBLYBz/9ixLpWh8x9dXAXruaLultgWVNXpGPzSPLk5ycbx1KVQmB3sjIPFUCViBCA kp1E6iCPWEz7ncGsYh638zgbvnOhCJ1P//SbYCOAu2g0kpjzFCiDQoxgOOHy4TuGM4f1 bpo0K+xVC1DjmLpfqnBVocoC1svR/UJgfigLyc05E21tknui9HqIk7JRXtLQwPPOqPb2 c8dg== X-Gm-Message-State: AKaTC03H3DeLj+/260QJu1WX+si/MDoC/2fQy4ZFd1BMIktXmMB7QpCRDNy9ZPmNvTjdRrggjQzwrycvTI4BSw== X-Received: by 10.55.79.86 with SMTP id d83mr29933518qkb.24.1480558956781; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:22:36 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.237.52.229 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:22:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <7B89A2FD-B272-4D3E-B876-72045246038E@icloud.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400d:c09::234 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:111841 Archived-At: 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). John [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/index.html#Top