From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83775 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Coaching to ssh port forward an NNTP connection Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:00:43 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87mwnbmlhg.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <7kzjs819br.fsf@callisto.jtan.com> <87a9k3ha0j.fsf@mmer.org> <877gf7m5q8.fsf@newsguy.com> <87r4dfxdjm.wl%hskuhra@eumx.net> <87vc2qlqcv.fsf@newsguy.com> <87mwo2ybvs.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379437329 30399 80.91.229.3 (17 Sep 2013 17:02:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:02:09 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M32031@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Sep 17 19:02:11 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VLyfB-0007IO-1V for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:02:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1VLyeB-0001aa-Ep; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:01:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1VLye9-0001aN-Ow for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:01:05 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1VLye4-0003Rx-UB for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:01:05 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1VLye2-0003JL-V0 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:00:59 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VLye1-0004TX-4x for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:00:57 +0200 Original-Received: from z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com ([65.50.57.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:00:57 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:00:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Go1aO+1WfwMK5D4YjDrko6WB4hc= X-Spam-Score: -1.2 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83775 Archived-At: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: > Harry Putnam 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'