From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57645 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus mail reading assistant Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 01:41:00 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <4nd653nm2i.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nzn86honu.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nk6z9bk8n.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <4n3c5v2cwm.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085269332 4698 80.91.224.253 (22 May 2004 23:42:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 23:42:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6185@lists.math.uh.edu Sun May 23 01:42:05 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRg7w-0001NU-00 for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 01:42:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BRg7j-0001Gn-00; Sat, 22 May 2004 18:41:52 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BRg7b-0001Gh-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 22 May 2004 18:41:43 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BRg7b-0006Da-1X for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 22 May 2004 18:41:43 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 396533A0254 for ; Sat, 22 May 2004 18:41:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BRg7Z-0007q1-00 for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 01:41:41 +0200 Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org ([80.91.231.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 01:41:41 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by quimbies.gnus.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 May 2004 01:41:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 65 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Tujiko Noriko's _Make me Hard_: "(untitled)" Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAMFBMVEV6cXG4RkG0sLDs6+r7 +viPiYr9/fzQz8/i3NqtoJ8BAAD////+//4+GR3Cv7z19PQ2WFMOAAABWElEQVR4nGMQBAE5F5e0 tBQ3tzNn0k7vSXFLc3FxYYBI7MYAWCT2N9f/BkpMxJDYMXX6a6DE7m2fOzpasBiFKTQqMYwlNitj lzj0XAm7hBFTP1aJfSHKWO3YXzQdu+U7K6uxShz6X4/VucV12ruxSewonVcNlehGldCEGOT/hcEa Wdzu3XMI40sdqo7MTjMoS5fhKhNM9Mue3Vte794PZGXv3nOLgYm9erMdSHwbs/rRovm7G6Zsr+dp mnqX4WrselMHkMTWeOvp5TWlrMZzA5jL4woZ7nJqhH3YxMBgXcmwT3v3FlW+zRx6u7/++Mdwb4/S 7pegIIrebxp/zNW6Zd9L7d0Rr5oZLm3r3g1yytbfu+MVQgxYf29lqN6twBDHcB3qpm3Izt7DZ8Rw CT0UQeK6a1cxXMUicWDVqlUMF7BIzAJJ3EUV2/8bmEhWYZHYCixWNgDF7wIAkXMMD6Q5r+AAAAAA SUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VFQ6KhSaYhS4h2kcNcGmgIo+7fY= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57645 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57645 "Ted Zlatanov" 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... ---------- @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 ------------ Hm. The text to "markup" ratio is pretty small... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen