Subject: O.K> all you hot shots!![D

From: [email-masked] (Allison Romano)
Date: 7 Jun 1995 10:31:41 -0400

When I try to post to newsgroups I get an "Error posting message: 480 Authentication required for command." error message.  Any ideas??

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 16:28:29 +0100 (BST)

You should probably have asked your local site news server administration 
before going further afield...

The problem is just what the error message says: "Authentication required".

Basically a news server can be set up so that whilst people can READ 
articles freely in order to POST an article they must first authenticate 
(supply a username and password) to the news server.  This, for example, 
allows logs to be kept so that offensive articles can be tracked back to 
the miscreant who posted them.

Judging from the error message your news server is set up in such a way.

However in its current incarnation Pine does not support authentication 
to news servers.

So you'll have to either persuade your news administrator to lift the 
restriction, or look at using another news reading program I think.

Mike Brudenell                                               <[email-masked]>
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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 20:34:25 -0700

> However in its current incarnation Pine does not support authentication

The good news is that I am working on the NNTP support code in the IMAP-4
toolkit now, and I *will* be implementing the authentication stuff.

I don't know at the present time whether or not this will make it into
Pine 3.92 since it'll probably require retrofitting the authentication
code into the IMAP-3.6 toolkit (which I'm trying to freeze -- as in every
change made to IMAP-3.6 delays IMAP-4 further).  Probably not; but a final
decision hasn't been made yet.

-- Mark --

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