From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/2743 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Davison Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: have to restart gnus to get news-server connection Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:37:39 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k7bkbrd8.fsf@desktop.xx.yy> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669065 16185 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:57:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:57:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:31:09 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!news.man.poznan.pl!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:35:03 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) XEmacs/21.5 (brussels sprouts, darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UN9Z1IABls4J+hk+NZ+0TixEfBs= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.211.129.207 Original-X-Trace: sv3-UVLqbQNDCaX8LCpY7yEiumGFOHs3jTPmDPS2GqzIvwcZDYRxnPIAXwlB+P+URMa8CZWak2JUhQepZeC!nnvrlM3ND2kUfUo6SbcuAcfx4E90tu2MrYWO4eFomjyN4ZM+BhR60xI2MaRAeVoT8Uu20/mUPSWc!PA== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2883 Original-Lines: 25 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2883 Tue Jan 17 17:31:09 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:2743 Archived-At: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Alan Hadsell wrote: > Hugh Lawson 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