On 10 Sep 2009 14:40:46 -0500 [email protected] (Edward M. Reingold) wrote:
>>>>>> "TZ" == Ted Zlatanov <[email protected]> writes: EMR> (setq gnus-newsrc-alist '(("nntp+news.cs.illinois.edu:cs.announce" 3 EMR> ((1 . 904)) nil "nntp:news.cs.illinois.edu";) EMR> ("nntp+news.cs.illinois.edu:cs.general" 3 ((1 . 5237)) nil EMR> "nntp:news.cs.illinois.edu";) EMR> ("nntp+news.cs.illinois.edu:cs.grad.announce" 3 ((1 . 268)) nil EMR> "nntp:news.cs.illinois.edu";) EMR> ("nntp+news.cs.illinois.edu:cs.undergrad.announce" 3 ((1 . 327)) nil EMR> "nntp:news.cs.illinois.edu";) EMR> ("nntp+news.cs.illinois.edu:cs.undergrad.general" 3 ((1 . 2547)) nil EMR> "nntp:news.cs.illinois.edu";) EMR> ("nntp+news.cs.illinois.edu:research.area.theory" 3 ((1 . 33)) nil EMR> "nntp:news.cs.illinois.edu";) EMR> The Illinois server recently changed to one requiring a secure EMR> connection; is that "nntp" part now wrong? TZ> Not there, but you have to change the NNTP server's definition to deal TZ> with the secure connection. The newsrc file has the logical server TZ> name, while the real address, port, etc. are defined elsewhere (in the TZ> newsrc file for external servers and in Lisp for primary/secondary TZ> servers). EMR> I don't understand--exactly what do I need to do, and where? Method 1: In the group buffer, hit `^' to get to the Server buffer Then hit `e' on the server in question. The Gnus manual tells you what server parameters are available for each server; you probably want the connection-related ones: http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_168.html#SEC168 http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_170.html#SEC170 Here's an example of a NNTP server with an unusual port number; you can see how the definition is constructed: ("nntprss.myne.com" nntp "nntprss.myne.com" (nntp-port-number 10919)) Method 2: If you can't edit the server, it's probably defined in your Lisp configuration as a primary or secondary, so you need to make the changes there. The manual examples use Lisp code so you should be able to get the needed formatting from there. It's slightly different from the server buffer parameters. I tried connecting to that server and it seems to allow outside connections over NNTP and NNTPS; the latter is an SSL connection so you can use nntp-open-ssl-stream (with nntp-port-number set to 563). The manual's example will show you how to do it. Ted _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
