Re: NNTP Server authentication

Lou Verdon (lverdon@julian.uwo.ca)
Sun, 07 Jul 1996 19:44:39 -0400

In article <YFB4xgZlsehQ089yn@voicenet.com>, you wrote:
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>Dear Yarn list,
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>I wonder if someone can tell me whether Souper 1.5 is capable of
>retrieving news from a server that requires authentication. When I am at
>home I can get email from my work address using the command:
>
>souper -n work.pop.address username password
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>It would be nice if I could get news from the work nntp server with a
>command similar to
>
>souper -m work.nttp.server username password
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>I know of many mail programs that allow this e.g. WinVN and FreeAgent
>[shudder ;-) ] but really would like to use souper and yarn.
>
>If Souper 1.5 for OS/2 cannot handle nttp authentication can someone
>suggest another program/mail reader that will and can produce soup
>packets. Thank you,

Souper does not handle authentication on an NNTP server.

I have the same problem and use uqwk 1.8 as a workaround. Setup was
relatively easy except for the inews path which I had to ask for.
If you have a shell account, you can give this a try.

I have a SMTP host on my host system which I have not tried. Can anyone
tell me if Souper will do authentication on a SMTP server?

...Has anyone written an NNTP authentication routine for souper?

Lou

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