Subject: Re: Can't Find .newsrc

From: [email-masked] (Wet-Sprocket)
Date: 14 Dec 1994 01:14:15 GMT

Comes here Mr. Pete Holsberg with this opinion in the "comp.mail.pine" group in this article on Tue, 13 Dec 1994 03:23:22 GMT:

 +   The config files have no variables set except the news-collection
 +   one is "News *[]".

How about defining the nntp-server option in the (S)etup/(C)onfig screen?

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From: [email-masked] (W. Ryan Thomas)
Date: 20 Dec 1994 19:58:41 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
[email-masked] (Wet-Sprocket) wrote:

> Comes here Mr. Pete Holsberg with this opinion in the "comp.mail.pine"
> How about defining the nntp-server option in the (S)etup/(C)onfig screen?

I'm sorry...but I got in on this thread late.  Could someone please post a
summary of this thread.  I have tried to get pine configured to read my
custom .newsrc file (~/.newsrc) and haven't been able to.

Thanks,
-rt

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From: [email-masked] (Pete Holsberg)
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 17:47:03 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Pete Holsberg <[email-masked]> wrote:
=In article <[email-masked]>,
=Wet-Sprocket <[email-masked]> wrote:
==Comes here Mr. Pete Holsberg with this opinion in the "comp.mail.pine" group in this article on Tue, 13 Dec 1994 03:23:22 GMT:
==
== +   The config files have no variables set except the news-collection
== +   one is "News *[]".
==
==How about defining the nntp-server option in the (S)etup/(C)onfig screen?
=
=Did that, to no avail. When I redefined news-collection to
=	News *{tecoma.mccc.edu}[]
=it said
=	can't connect to tecoma, 143
=	conenction refused
=Is that an imapd problem???

I went back and made sure that imapd and ipop3d were alive in my
inetd.conf file, and even rebooted to make sure that inetd reread
its config file, but again to no avail. Still get connection
refused, 143. imapd, 143 is indeed listed in /etc/services. ???

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From: [email-masked] (Pete Holsberg)
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 16:55:59 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Wet-Sprocket <[email-masked]> wrote:
=Comes here Mr. Pete Holsberg with this opinion in the "comp.mail.pine" group in this article on Tue, 13 Dec 1994 03:23:22 GMT:
=
= +   The config files have no variables set except the news-collection
= +   one is "News *[]".
=
=How about defining the nntp-server option in the (S)etup/(C)onfig screen?

Did that, to no avail. When I redefined news-collection to
	News *{tecoma.mccc.edu}[]
it said
	can't connect to tecoma, 143
	conenction refused
Is that an imapd problem???

Thanks and happy holidays.

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 11:49:14 -0800 (PST)

You probably want an entry like 
   News *{tecoma.mccc.edu/nntp}[]
                         ^^^^^
If you don't have the /nntp Pine tries to use IMAP for news access, and 
IMAP assumes the .newsrc is stored on the server, not the client.

Setting "nntp-server=tecoma.mccc.edu" should obviate the need for the
above news-collection entry, but if the news-collection entry exists and
is wrong, it will over-ride the default.  So try setting nntp-server and
*deleting* the news-collection entry. 

-teg