Re: have to restart gnus to get news-server connection

Re: have to restart gnus to get news-server connection

[Joe Davison]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Alan Hadsell wrote:
>  Hugh Lawson <hlawson@triad.rr.com> writes:
>  
> > gnus version 5.10.1
> >
> > If I don't download headers for a while, and then hit enter on a
> > group, gnus often cannot connect with the news server.  But usually
> > if I close gnus and restart, it connects just fine.
> >
> > Same problem with 'g' in the groups buffer.
> >
> > Anything I can do about this?
>  
>  I have a similar problem.  Recently, I added "force" to the
>  appropriate line in .authinfo for that server, and the problem has
>  not manifested since.  YMMV, of course.

Where is the format of .authinfo documented?   I've recently switched
news providers and the new one has assigned a user id and password.

Or, I know there are variables I can set but don't know how to find them
in the gnus manual, and don't really want to read the whole thing to
hope to find it, so if you can give me a pointer, I'd appreciate it.

joe