From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Coaching to ssh port forward an NNTP connection
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:00:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mwnbmlhg.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mwo2ybvs.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk>
asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "localhost:5119"))
>
> That looks like a guess.
>
> How does:
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "localhost" (nntp-port-number 5119)))
>
> work?
Good, thank you
> See http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_171.html
>
I'm not sure I would have realized what was necessary just by looking
at that.. although after your message I can see the info is there.
I guess I was expecting gnus to follow the standard way to set a port to
a host `host:port'
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-17 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-23 19:44 Harry Putnam
2013-08-27 7:23 ` Abramov Aleksey
2013-08-27 16:57 ` Harry Putnam
2013-08-27 17:13 ` Herbert J. Skuhra
2013-08-27 22:29 ` Harry Putnam
2013-08-27 23:03 ` Adam Sjøgren
2013-09-17 17:00 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
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