Re: Gnus mail reading assistant

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

"Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> Some more work on the mail setup assistant.  The syntax is nebulous
> so I'm trying my best to make it do what we want.  It's not clear,
> for example, what we should do when a nnml server is created - do we
> create a new "mail" group?  Do we set up splitting?

Not splitting; no...

> For NNTP, do we ask for a username and password, or do we test the
> server and see if they are needed, or is that too advanced for a
> setup assistant?

Hm...  it should allow for specifying the user name and password, at
least, but connecting to the server and seeing if we get a user
name/password challenge would be really nice.

Let's see...

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@title Configuring Gnus for reading news


@node Setting up the news server name and port number
@variable server :string (gnus-getenv-nntpserver)
@variable port :number 119
@validate (assistant-validate-connect-to-server server port)
@result gnus-select-method (list server port)
@text
Usenet news is usually read from your Internet service prodider's news
server.  If you don't know the name of this server, contact your ISP.

As a guess, the name of the server might be news.yourisp.com.

The server name is @variable{server}; port number @variable{port}.
@end text
@next t "User name and password"


@node User name and password
@variable user-name :string (user-login-name)
@variable password :password (find-password-in-authinfo)
@validate "... lots of code ..."
@result ... er... put stuff in .authinfo, I guess
@text
Some news servers require that you enter a user name and
a password.

@if (password-required-p)
It looks like your news server is one of those.
@else
It doesn't look like your news server requires passwords.
@endif

User name: @variable{user-name}
Password: @variable{password}
@end text
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Hm.  The text to "markup" ratio is pretty small...

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