Bug 118395

Summary:	nntp accounts do not work within evolution
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Joe Harmon <jharmon>
Component:	Evolution	Assignee:	Susarla Parthasarathi <sparthasarathi>
Status:	VERIFIED INVALID	QA Contact:	Poornima Nayak <pnayak>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Joe Harmon 2005-09-22 14:04:06 UTC

I added a new account within evolution by going to Edit, Preferences and
clicking on Add. On the Identity screen a put in a user name and password. On
the Receiving Email screen I choose a server type of USENET news. I put in a
server name of support-forums.novell.com and I have tried with and without
authentication. In the  Receiving Options I chose to download every 5 minutes
and in the Sending Options I put in a server of imap.novell.com with the
appropriate credentials, setting the authentication type to Login and to use a
secure connection whenever possible. The nntp account just sits at a loading
state and never finishes.

Comment 1 Martin Sommer 2005-11-16 10:38:19 UTC

not a blocker

Comment 2 Susarla Parthasarathi 2005-11-21 07:33:55 UTC

Hi joe,
For support-forums.novell.com no authentication is required. So please do *not* give any user name(and password) in the configuration section (According to http://support.novell.com/forums/faq_nntp.html) there is no need for authentication and no secure channel.
After you add this account. Go to Folder->Subsricptions and select the configured NNTP account. You will be shown a list of all the forums that are available on the server. Chose one and clicking subscribe should show the account in the evolution.

HTH.

Comment 4 Joe Harmon 2005-11-21 19:33:46 UTC

working for public forums