Subject: News Reading

From: "Brian P. Hampson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 13:15:09 -0700 (PDT)

When Pine attaches to a Newsserver...what does the NNTP conversation look 
like?  I am trying to help a developer with his NNTP server, yet cannot 
get PINE to communicate with it.  It's probably something the NNTP server 
is missing, but I would appreciate knowing what it is.

B.

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 18:54:44 -0700

> is missing, but I would appreciate knowing what it is.

The source file pine/imap/ANSI/c-client/nntpcunx.c contains the commands
used by Pine's NNTP client.  Look for calls to smtp_send().

If you run Pine as "pine -d9" you should get a transcript of the NNTP
protocol session as part of the .pine-debug* files.  You can look at that
and see what is happening.

Unfortunately, "cannot get PINE to communicate with it" is much too vague
a statement, as is "something the NNTP server is missing".  If the NNTP
server implements the NNTP specification, *and* does not do something
stupid such as close the connection when it receives an unknown command
(Pine does use some non-specified but commonly-implemented commands such
as XHDR), then it should work with Pine.

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