Setup Agent with Adelphia news server
foobar
Agent, I get an authentication error "502 Access denied via @adelphia.net
auth server". Adelphia uses Giganews as the provider, and they said to use
my full email address, e.g. us...@adelphia.net, as the login name. This
works in OE but not in Agent. Does anyone know why? I've used Agent with
other servers with no problem.
No Body
Dumb question, but are you absolutely sure you've entered the password
correctly?
aima...@adelphia.net
In Agent be sure that under General Preference, News server that Host
Name is: news1.news.adelphia.net
Governor Swill
Confirm with Adelphia that the email address rather than just username
is required for news access. Email may require it but the news
servers not.
Swill
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We at the Technical Support desk are on your side.
We don't support the intenet backbone.
We don't support the local physical line to your home.
or the myriad of electronic signaling protocols used to make
letters and pictures appear on your screen.
We support from the modem to you. We're on _your_ side
of that connection.
Governor Swill
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The artist formerly Known as Bruce In Cleveland
>On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:00:01 GMT, /betty/
><no.addr.4.u.equ...@simple.isnt.it.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>* I used the identical login in OE and NewsBin Pro, and both worked
>fine. Can someone confirm that Agent can accept a login name that
>contains an "@"?
>
yes it can, I use SBC/Yahoo and the login for their Servers (probably
way back in the day were the old Prodigy Servers) is my Full Email
Address.
>* NewsBin worked fine with the Adelphia server, using two connections
>
>* Although this *is* under XP SP2, I don't think the MS firewall
>blocks any outgoing connections. Besides, as I said, NB Pro works
>fine.
I am running XP SP2, though for Firewall I use /Betty/'s Favorite,
Zone alarm. (current version)
>
>I'll try Agent again the next time I'm at my friend's place with the
>Adelphia service. For now, he's using NB.
>
>>1. Make sure you have the syntax correctly entered in reqd fields for
>>both user...@service.name, case sensitive password, and for the actual
>>news.server.name itself.
>>(and obviously have login with pword selected)
>>
>>2. Make sure you have available and free connections, ie. it might be
>>disallowing you if you have other program[s] (ports) still connected to
>>the service. (and not timed out/ttl expired)
>>
>>3. You might have a firewall rule blocking Agent, OE would likely
>>backdoor itselfน so that problem wouldn't apply to it.
>>
>>[น] especially if it smelt the opportunity on the wire to download and
>>auto-install viruses for you.
BillB
> * I used the identical login in OE and NewsBin Pro, and both worked
> fine. Can someone confirm that Agent can accept a login name that
> contains an "@"?
Another confirmation: Using the Login Method "Username and
password", the different usernames used for several different
instances of Agent configured for different news servers all have an
"@" in the middle of the username/login name, which is immediately
followed by the domain.
The artist formerly Known as Bruce In Cleveland
<no.addr.4.u.equ...@simple.isnt.it.invalid> wrote:
>On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:01:57 GMT, The artist formerly Known as Bruce In
>Cleveland used 41 lines to assert:
>
>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:58:26 GMT, Zanoni <z...@nospam.com> wrote:
>>
>>>* I used the identical login in OE and NewsBin Pro, and both worked
>>>fine. Can someone confirm that Agent can accept a login name that
>>>contains an "@"?
>>>
>> yes it can, I use SBC/Yahoo and the login for their Servers (probably
>> way back in the day were the old Prodigy Servers) is my Full Email
>> Address.
>>
>
>The respondent is a pop toaster, it would be difficult for them to
>understand how to do something of that complexity, they should call
>their services' Helpline.
>
>
>Fyi: Forte APN requires a FQ uname for authent and some Forte only
>clientware users here have subbed to and successfully used that service
>since it started.
>
>(nb I just tried it then with A2 and no problems)
>
I didnt even notice that with APN (I use it for Binaries and as of now
Backup Text, since I can't see paying for 3 Usenet Services)
>>>* NewsBin worked fine with the Adelphia server, using two connections
>>>
>>>* Although this *is* under XP SP2, I don't think the MS firewall
>>>blocks any outgoing connections. Besides, as I said, NB Pro works
>>>fine.
>> I am running XP SP2, though for Firewall I use /Betty/'s Favorite,
>> Zone alarm. (current version)
>>
>
>Great companion for Agent, their yEnc handling capabilities aren't that
>dissimilar although the latter has a far cleaner reputation.