[HECnet] NEWSRDR or other ...

[Zane H. Healy]

At 8:29 PM -0500 11/12/08, Fred wrote:
Good evening:

I fetched NEWSRDR off of one of the Freeware distribution sites, and after configuring things, settings up logicals, etc ... an attempt to run NEWSRDR results in:

%NEWS-I-UPDATING, locating unread articles; please wait...
%NEWS-E-UNEXPRSP, unexpected response from server: "480 Authentication Required"

Does anyone have experience with setting up NEWSRDR to authenticate to my ISP's mail server, or is there a client out there for OpenVMS that supports this?     This error message suggests that NEWSRDR does not.

I think you want to point it at your ISP's news server. :-)

ISTR trying NEWSRDR about 10 years ago, but at that point my ISP didn't require a login for the news server (i.e. this was before they outsourced it).   No clue on if it supports authentication or not.

Zane


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