From: John Paul Wallington <jpw@shootybangbang.com>
Subject: Re: How to get information about your system and network for setting up gnus email
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:00:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871y7u5k5t.fsf@bundalo.shootybangbang.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y44r8fugvs1.fsf@nestle.ai.mit.edu>
Don Saklad <dsaklad@nestle.ai.mit.edu> wrote:
> What are some of the files and commands you can check for information
> about your system and network?
This question would be better suited to a newsgroup about the systems
and/or networks that you are interested in.
> More people could get started easier with gnus email if people are
> pointed to system or network files and commands they can check for the
> parameters asked for by the gnus dotfile generator
> http://my.gnus.org/GDF/basic
>
> a. Fully Qualified Domain Name
>
> b. Your ISP's newsserver
>
> c. The User's Mailserver Type
> d. POP3
> e. IMAP
>
> f. The address of your mailserver internet provider or hostname
In the case of my ISP, and most of the consumer ISPs operating in the
country I live in, the server names for SMTP, POP, and NNTP servers are
human and machine readable from a settings file on the free
installation CDs they foist upon customers (in this case an
INSTALL.INS file).
--
John Paul Wallington
next parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-16 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <y44r8fugvs1.fsf@nestle.ai.mit.edu>
2002-09-16 10:00 ` John Paul Wallington [this message]
2002-09-16 10:19 ` Kai Großjohann
[not found] ` <wtnbs6yi94z.fsf@licia.dtek.chalmers.se>
2002-09-16 12:08 ` Don Saklad
2002-09-16 12:35 ` Adam Sjøgren
[not found] ` <y44y9a13dhw.fsf@nestle.ai.mit.edu>
2002-09-17 0:04 ` RL
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