Re: news server with socks proxy howto?

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

poppyer <poppyer@gmail.com> writes:

> Gernot Hassenpflug <gernot@nict.go.jp> writes:
>> 
>> > thanks, Katsumi
>> > but it seems that only nntp-via-telnet/rlogin are valid?
>> > I intend to use nntp-via-ssh is possible.
>> >
>> 
>> Not true, see the manual. I admit that I could not debug this when it
>> did not work at times (after some updates on my previous system) and
>> often used a separate forwarded port ssh connection and then a
>> localhost NNTP access. I suspect it works fine now.
>> 
>> From nntp.el (see manual for example and variable options):
>> 
>> ,----
>> | (defvoo nntp-via-rlogin-command "rsh"
>> |   "*Rlogin command used to connect to an intermediate host.
>> | This command is used by the methods `nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-telnet'
>> | and `nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-netcat'.  The default is \"rsh\", but \"ssh\"
>> | is a popular alternative.")
>> `----
>> 
> see that. But I still can not get it work, it said "server denied".
> Is it a function only valid in gnus 6.0? I am using 5.9

"server denied" means that your setup did not work. You now have to
debug it using emacs' debug functions to see which part of the setup
did not work.
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