Re: VSoup URL bug?

Phil Crown (pcrown@airmail.net)
Sat, 07 Sep 1996 08:39:08 -0500

>On Fri, 06 Sep 1996 18:44:14 -0500, pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) wrote:
>Sorry, this seems to be a misunderstanding on your side (or a lack of
>documentation on the VSoup side!?). Mail is not delivered thru POP3,
>in fact it is delivered thru SMTP. This means, you have to use the
>smtp:// URL! But therefor you need to know the name of your smtp
>server, which will be different to your pop3 server. Also for smtp
>you don't need a user:password parameter. You can give it to VSoup,
>but it will be ignored... So your call of VSoup for Mail-Xmt should
>look like this:
>
>vsoup -i -s smtp://smtp.gateway nntp://user:passwd@nntp.server
>
>BTW: you should also specify your nntp server, because vsoup (just
> like souper) are delivering EMAIL and NEWS at the same time!
>
>Hardy
>
>--
>Hardy Griech, Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 25/1, D-72762 Reutlingen

Thanks, Hardy!

It was a lack of understanding on my part, but I'm learning. I was able
to figure it out by reading the "status reports" that VSoup mails to me.
:-)

I didn't think to include both mail and news, though.

-- 
Phil Crown
pcrown@airmail.net
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