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Re: Is there a good nntp client for Centos 6 that handles SSL native?
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Fran Jones
May 1, 2013, 5:40:34 PM5/1/13
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On Wed, 01 May 2013 11:42:25 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:
> It is considered by its developers a mail agent which also
> does some text newsing.
Unless I did something wrong in my initial setup, it makes
setting up nntp news (which is simple) an almost heinous task,
where you have to figure out your incoming and outgoing user
name (whatever that means to NNTP) and you have to set your
SMTP server (apparently) as your NNTP server - and where you
have no chance to set the port (as far as I could see in the
first pass).
But anyway, since all I do is read and write to text-only
newsgroups, if Thunderbird actually could be set up easily
for something as simple as NNTP, it would be ok with me
if only I knew were to put this basic NNTP information:
NNTP server & port: news.mixmin.net:563
NNTP login & password: <blank>:<blank>
> It is considered by its developers a mail agent which also
> does some text newsing.
Unless I did something wrong in my initial setup, it makes
setting up nntp news (which is simple) an almost heinous task,
where you have to figure out your incoming and outgoing user
name (whatever that means to NNTP) and you have to set your
SMTP server (apparently) as your NNTP server - and where you
have no chance to set the port (as far as I could see in the
first pass).
But anyway, since all I do is read and write to text-only
newsgroups, if Thunderbird actually could be set up easily
for something as simple as NNTP, it would be ok with me
if only I knew were to put this basic NNTP information:
NNTP server & port: news.mixmin.net:563
NNTP login & password: <blank>:<blank>
Mike Easter
May 1, 2013, 7:23:46 PM5/1/13
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Fran Jones wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>
>> It is considered by its developers a mail agent which also
>> does some text newsing.
>
> Unless I did something wrong in my initial setup, it makes
> setting up nntp news (which is simple) an almost heinous task,
When you are dealing with a virgin Tb 17.0.5 you have to defeat the
> Mike Easter wrote:
>
>> It is considered by its developers a mail agent which also
>> does some text newsing.
>
> Unless I did something wrong in my initial setup, it makes
> setting up nntp news (which is simple) an almost heinous task,
problem with the new mail account wizard being the first interface if
you are trying to use it for a news account instead of mail.
Create some kind of real mail account but don't give it a password, so
it will quit trying to make the mail account but not engage the mail
server successfully and start downloading mail.
Then activate the menu bar (R click the area where it is missing to
check view menu bar) so that you will have a File menu, which is one
place to create a new news account.
Alternatively you can get to the Account Settings by using the function
to edit the mail account you just created.
Then, leave the mail account alone and go to the bottom of the left pane
where there is an Account function menu to make a new news account.
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Mike Easter
Mike Easter
May 1, 2013, 7:52:54 PM5/1/13
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Fran Jones wrote:
> Unless I did something wrong in my initial setup, it makes
> setting up nntp news (which is simple) an almost heinous task,
> where you have to figure out your incoming and outgoing user
> name (whatever that means to NNTP) and you have to set your
> SMTP server (apparently) as your NNTP server - and where you
> have no chance to set the port (as far as I could see in the
> first pass).
The problem I believe you are seeing is when you start Tb 17.0.5 for the
> Unless I did something wrong in my initial setup, it makes
> setting up nntp news (which is simple) an almost heinous task,
> where you have to figure out your incoming and outgoing user
> name (whatever that means to NNTP) and you have to set your
> SMTP server (apparently) as your NNTP server - and where you
> have no chance to set the port (as far as I could see in the
> first pass).
first time and there is no existing profile, it starts in the new mail
account wizard mode which problem I described recently in another
thread. You have to escape that new mail account wizard to create a new
news account.
http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?ID=136745233500
From: Mike Easter
Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware
Subject: Re: Just Downloaded Ubuntu-13.04-desktop-i386
Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 11:19:21 -0700
Message-ID: <aud4l2...@mid.individual.net>
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Mike Easter
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