From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/10688 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Christensen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: TLS and browse foreign server Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:57:24 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205852305 31509 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2008 14:58:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:58:25 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 18 15:58:54 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JbdGi-0004s9-19 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:58:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JbdG8-00045m-2w for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JbdG6-00044p-JU for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:57:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JbdG5-00043r-Ny for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:57:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JbdG5-00043d-IG for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:57:45 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JbdG4-0002ts-W3 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:57:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JbdFx-0003fS-8Y for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:57:37 +0000 Original-Received: from 80.72.152.144 ([80.72.152.144]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:57:37 +0000 Original-Received: from thomasc by 80.72.152.144 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:57:37 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.72.152.144 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.92 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:idel0DNb8He7HMHKi+S/JmL8Oww= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:10688 Archived-At: Joel Reicher writes: > Thomas Christensen writes: > >> When I hit B in the group buffer og get to browse a foreign server. I >> then type nnimap RET server RET, which lets me browse my IMAP service. >> >> Is there any way during this process I can convince Gnus to connect >> via TLS? I know I can set it up in my .emacs et al to use TLS but I >> often subscribe to groups through the browse interface and would like >> to utilize TLS some times. > > Is it just browsing you want or does it absolutely have to be browsing > of a foreign server? I actually browse a lot of servers and temporarily subscribe to some of the groups. So I use browse foreign server a lot. > > The best way to do what you want, I think, is to put the obvious entry > in the gnus-secondary-select-methods list and then browse the server > from the server buffer, subscribing groups that way. I have done this with my major servers (IMAP, gmane, etc) - no problem with TLS there. > After all, if > you're subscribing you don't want these groups to be ephemeral, right? The ones with temporary nature makes ephemeral acceptable. > > By the way, I would use .gnus for gnus settings, not .emacs. I like M-x customize-group RET gnus, which causes it to be .emacs ;) Thomas