From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1375 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: those who know me have no need of my name Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: nntp.sourceforge.net and SSL? Date: 25 Oct 2002 17:31:28 GMT Organization: earthfriends Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668165 11043 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:42:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:42:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:03 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) XEmacs/21.4 (Informed Management (RC1), i686-redhat-linux) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1515 Original-Lines: 31 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1515 Tue Jan 17 17:29:03 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1375 Archived-At: in gnu.emacs.gnus i read: >those who know me have no need of my name >writes: >> in gnu.emacs.gnus i read: >> be sure you provide gnus with your sourceforge account credentials. > (nntp-open-connection-function > nntp-open-ssl-stream) > (nntp-port-number "563") > (nntp-address "nntp.sourceforge.net")) > >in secondary select method it waits indefinitely on startup with > >Opening nntp server on sf... > >Am I correct in assuming that it should prompt me for authinfo (as >I don't have a ~/.authinfo) *before* it starts downloading active list? it should. hmm. could be a combination of bugs, partly in gnus and partly in the lame-assed nntp server that sf uses. when i first considered using it i hadn't remembered to put my credentials in my authinfo-file, but since i had patched gnus so that it displays the nntp commands it sends in the echo area i saw it attempting to authenticate (as anonymous, which fails) repeatedly (it really shouldn't retry more than once or twice), and that would mean that most would see it stuck at the opening server message. -- bringing you boring signatures for 17 years