Subject: Pine config of news server/login/groups

From: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 13:17:38 -0500 (EST)

How can I specify a different news server user name than my local login?

How can I get it to automatically use a given name and password for news without prompting me every time?

Can I get it to add a newsgroup without downloading the full group list every time (or get it to not download the list more than once)? My server has 60,000+ groups.

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 15:20:38 -0800 (PST)

>without prompting me every time?

I don't know, but I sure wish that I could figure out how to get pine to
log into my mail account without prompting me.  I mean, I of course
realize that then if anyone could log in as me, they could get to my email
and send email as me.  I'm willing to take that risk, and people do it all
the time (including me) with GUI programs.  Seems that pine should allow this
too.

>Can I get it to add a newsgroup without downloading the full group list every
>time (or get it to not download the list more than once)? My server has
>60,000+ groups.

You need to add a "Collection" for the news server.  Then you can add
newsgroups to the list.

I finally can recompile trn on my machine at work some time, so I am more
interested in this for curiousity's sake, but I was using pine to read
some internal newsgroups for a while.

I never figured out how to get it to show me ALREADY READ messages.  I mean,
as far as I could tell, I have to "Delete" messages just like pieces of email
to get them to not show up all of the time.  But if I want to look at a 
previously read message, how do I do it?

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 20:03:49 -0800 (PST)

> >How can I specify a different news server user name than my local login?

Normall, you add /user=username to the end of the hostname, like this:

news.u.washington.edu/user=leibrand

I assume that will work for news, too.

> the time (including me) with GUI programs.  Seems that pine should allow this

You can set up a Pine password file, but it requires either a hidden
configuration option or a compile-time option be changed.  I think Nancy's
page has something on this.

Alternately, and far more securely, you can set up Pine to use SSH and set
up private and public keys for passwordless access.  This requires that
your mail server supports SSH logins and gives you direct access to your
files.  Reply if you'd like directions on doing this.

> previously read message, how do I do it?

There's an unexclude command in News that basically undoes the expunge
command.

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