On 18 Aug 2009 14:34:10 -0500 [email protected] (Edward M. Reingold) wrote:
EMR> The following fails EMR> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods EMR> '((nntp "news.cs.illinois.edu" EMR> (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-ssl-stream) EMR> (nntp-port-number 563) EMR> (nntp-address "news.cs.illinois.edu") EMR> (nntp-authinfo-user "reingold") EMR> (nntp-authinfo-password "MyPassword")))) EMR> with an error message EMR> gnus-select-newsgroup: Couldn't open server EMR> How can I debug the problem? I know the login/password are correct because EMR> they work when I read the news from Thunderbird. Looks to me like you need to test nntp-ssl-program: nntp-ssl-program is a variable defined in `nntp.el'. Its value is "openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect %s:%p" Try it with your server and port (%s and %p) from the command line and see what happens. Ted _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
