From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1167 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Paul Wallington Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user 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 Message-ID: <871y7u5k5t.fsf@bundalo.shootybangbang.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667967 10053 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:39:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:39:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:44 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!news.teledanmark.no!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!diablo.theplanet.net!news.theplanet.net!127.0.0.1!nobody Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-95.bauglir.dialup.pol.co.uk Original-X-Trace: newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk 1032170101 25254 62.136.136.95 (16 Sep 2002 09:55:01 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Sep 2002 09:55:01 GMT Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@theplanet.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kh/lALSaa3e5YedeeJCeyhGFwgs= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1307 Original-Lines: 31 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1307 Tue Jan 17 17:28:44 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1167 Archived-At: Don Saklad 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