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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: passing AUTHINFO {USER|PASS} to a foreign server
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:15:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4u3zrti.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86pr3wynh2.fsf@aiuole.stru.polimi.it>

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:35:05 +0100 Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it> wrote: 

GB> Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it> writes:
>> i have a user id and a password to connect to a nntp server
>> [...]
>> 
>> following instructions in info file i created a ~/.authinfo file,
>> following FAQ i put (add-hook 'nntp-server-opened-hook
>> 'nntp-send-authinfo) in my ~/.gnus
>> 
>> i create the foreign group, but i cannot access it

GB> gnus changed his mind, and noe everything is fine, except that it asks
GB> me the user name when connecting to my primary server, name that is
GB> not necessary... anyhow, both server works and the inconvenience is
GB> very minor

Hmm, is the add-hook necessary?  I don't have it and NNTP auth works for
me.

Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-23 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-23 14:03 Giacomo Boffi
2010-02-23 14:06 ` Giacomo Boffi
2010-02-23 15:35 ` Giacomo Boffi
2010-02-23 19:15   ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-02-24 15:44     ` Giacomo Boffi

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