> ---ORIGINAL MESSAGE--- > Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:39:11 -0700 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [vox-tech] gnus not behaving > From: Issac Trotts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 06:15:52PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 04:09:25PM -0700, Issac Trotts wrote: > > > Has anyone had success setting up the emacs news > > > reader gnus? I ran through a tutorial on it but > > > gnus only shows > > > > > > *: nndraft:drafts > > > > > > Here's my .gnus file: > > > > > > ; -*- emacs-lisp -*- > > > > > > (setq user-mail-address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") > > > (setq user-full-name "Issac Trotts") > > > (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.ucdavis.edu")) > > > (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) > > > (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) > > > (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "scarlet.ucdavis.edu") > > > > > > Issac > > > > How do you know it's not working? Do you get an error message? Or have > > you simply not subscribed to a newsgroup? > > > > Subscribe to a newsgroup by typing "U" and then entering the > > newsgroup's name: or, get the full newsgroup listing from your server > > by typing "A A", and when you have the cursor over a candidate, type > > "u" (lower-case). These are all menu options, too BTW. > > > > If you aren't using Emacs in X, you can access the menu options with > > "M-~". > > > > HTH, > > Micah > > That helps, though the main problem was that I wasn't waiting long enough for > the connection to news.gnus.org. > > The UC Davis server still shows nothing, > but I think I need to do something Davis-specific to get it working.
If you're off campus, you need to authorize yourself via HTTP on news.ucdavis.edu first. Beats me why they do it this way, but I have a simple script. (Requires the lynx-ssl package on debian from non-us) #! /bin/tcsh # this next line is more elegant but debian's lynx-ssl has a bug that keeps -auth from working with -source #lynx -source -auth=username:password "https://secureweb.ucdavis.edu:443/cgi-auth/sendback?http://email.ucdavis.edu/news/news-succeed.html"; > /dev/null echo qy| lynx "https://secureweb.ucdavis.edu:443/cgi-auth/sendback?http://email.ucdavis.edu/news/news-succeed.html"; -force_secure -accept_all_cookies -auth="username:password" > /dev/null # ^^q quits, and y answers yes to the confirmation message _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
