Hello L.D:
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 04:16:52 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> To pull from or post to news groups, you don't use either POP3 or SMTP.
> You use whatever your ISP says is the proper "news" address. Sometimes
> that is just news.ispname.here or sometimes it is a "rental" news
> server. Sometimes with the "rental" servers you also have to transmit a
> valid username & password [not yours, your ISP's].
Yes, in my setup there was a place to enter my news server name. In my
case it is "news.shentel.net". That is the server name that I indicated,
same as on my Net-Tamer setup.
> If you are trying to send posts to ngs via SMTP you *will* get a lockup
> cuz it can't be done that way! <G>
No, I wasn't trying to post to newsgroups via my smtp server. For that
reason I could not understand why I was initially receiving error
messages from PC-PINE telling me that no smtp server had been identified.
I don't know what was wrong, but never mind, I messed around with my
setup some more and my PC-PINE is now working just fine. No problems.
> As to getting old messages with the new from an ng, it is up to YOU [if
> not done automatically like NetTamer does it] to tell the ng server LIST
> 2345- iow, YOU have to be the one to tell the server what messages
> you want. If you dig into the NetTamer docs & stuff, it can give you a
> decent idea of how to get a "list" starting with a specific number, or a
> "list" of just the subject lines & message numbers, etc etc etc. The
> news server doesn't know you from Adam, so you have to be the boss.
Yes, I figured out that one too, with the help of "Uncle Dave" and with
a guru on the newsgroup at "comp.mail.pine".
Thanks for trying to rescue me, but I've already been saved.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
