Re: how to use SM for news with 'pass phrase'

2010-06-19 Thread Rick Merrill
NoOp wrote: On 06/18/2010 07:55 AM, Rick Merrill wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Manuel Reimer wrote: Rick Merrill wrote: Secure Authenticated Logon to Our Server: Before posting any articles to our server you must configure your newsreader to logon with a Username and Password.

Re: how to use SM for news with 'pass phrase'

2010-06-19 Thread Rick Merrill
Rick Merrill wrote: NoOp wrote: On 06/18/2010 07:55 AM, Rick Merrill wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Manuel Reimer wrote: Rick Merrill wrote: Secure Authenticated Logon to Our Server: Before posting any articles to our server you must configure your newsreader to logon with a

Re: how to use SM for news with 'pass phrase'

2010-06-19 Thread Manuel Reimer
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Prompting for password over and over? Are you checking the Don't ask me again checkbox? Thunderbird's own password-keeping has always worked very well for me, since version 0.2 -- zero-point-two. I don't like those password managers. I prefer to enter my

how to use SM for news with 'pass phrase'

2010-06-18 Thread Rick Merrill
a particular server says, Secure Authenticated Logon to Our Server: Before posting any articles to our server you must configure your newsreader to logon with a Username and Password. You can NOT use the anonymous or don't need to logon mode of your newsreader if you wish to post your own

Re: how to use SM for news with 'pass phrase'

2010-06-18 Thread Manuel Reimer
Rick Merrill wrote: Secure Authenticated Logon to Our Server: Before posting any articles to our server you must configure your newsreader to logon with a Username and Password. Configure SeaMonkey with the server name. Try to fetch news, SeaMonkey prompts for password. You most probably

Re: how to use SM for news with 'pass phrase'

2010-06-18 Thread Beauregard T. Shagnasty
Manuel Reimer wrote: Rick Merrill wrote: Secure Authenticated Logon to Our Server: Before posting any articles to our server you must configure your newsreader to logon with a Username and Password. Configure SeaMonkey with the server name. Try to fetch news, SeaMonkey prompts for

Re: how to use SM for news with 'pass phrase'

2010-06-18 Thread S. Beaulieu
Manuel Reimer a écrit : You most probably want to use the password manager to store the password, as password handling for news of both, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird, *SUCKS*. They prompt for the password over and over and over again U... no. SM asks me for the password when Mail/News is

Re: how to use SM for news with 'pass phrase'

2010-06-18 Thread Rick Merrill
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Manuel Reimer wrote: Rick Merrill wrote: Secure Authenticated Logon to Our Server: Before posting any articles to our server you must configure your newsreader to logon with a Username and Password. Configure SeaMonkey with the server name. Try to fetch news,

Re: how to use SM for news with 'pass phrase'

2010-06-18 Thread Beauregard T. Shagnasty
Rick Merrill wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: For Mr Merrill's problem, it may help to know which news server he is trying to access. Sounds like it is some non-standard affair. It is news.grc.com, thank you. Aha, grc. I had an account with them years ago, but lost interest in what

Re: how to use SM for news with 'pass phrase'

2010-06-18 Thread Beverly Howard
Same here... however there have been glitches. The repeating' seemed to be related to the server requiring a login/password and then the newsgroup section also asking for one. In my experience, setting up the server login first, then sequentially logging into the sections was a one time only

Re: how to use SM for news with 'pass phrase'

2010-06-18 Thread Rick Merrill
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Rick Merrill wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: For Mr Merrill's problem, it may help to know which news server he is trying to access. Sounds like it is some non-standard affair. It is news.grc.com, thank you. Aha, grc. I had an account with them years

Re: how to use SM for news with 'pass phrase'

2010-06-18 Thread Hartmut Figge
Rick Merrill: That's fine for outlook, but in SeaMonkey, where would the long and impossible-to-guess passphrase actually go? Does it go into both the Account name and Password fields of the SMTP server?! I have tried news.grc.com a little while ago. The passphrase is only needed if 'Always

Re: how to use SM for news with 'pass phrase'

2010-06-18 Thread NoOp
On 06/18/2010 07:55 AM, Rick Merrill wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Manuel Reimer wrote: Rick Merrill wrote: Secure Authenticated Logon to Our Server: Before posting any articles to our server you must configure your newsreader to logon with a Username and Password. Configure