Re: How to set up gnus email for novices with little mastery.

[Adam Sjøgren]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:04:15 -0500, Tim wrote:

> asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

>> Like this page in the tutorial:
>> <http://my.gnus.org/tutorial/Fundamental-Configuration.html#Fundamental%20Configuration>

> Funny you should mention that... I just literally was looking
> through that to fix my Gnus setup. My ISP's news server just started
> demanding authentication for the first time ever, and your tutorial
> showed me the lazy man's way to set it up. Thanks!

(Just a small nitpick: the tutorial isn't mine, I just posted a link
 here :-))

> This page covers all the information I had in mind, although it
> doesn't answer the question about what one should do if the SMTP
> server requires authentication- that appears to be unfinished. Would
> there be lines in ~/.authinfo for this, similar to what's there for
> the NNTP server?

I haven't used authentification with smtp, so I haven't checked. The
full manual perhaps has the answer?

I'm sure the author(s) of the tutorial (apparantly named "Foobar" :-))
will be happy to include the missing information when you figure it
out.


  Best regards,

-- 
 "The problem with the future is that it keeps                Adam Sjøgren
  turning into the present."                             asjo@koldfront.dk