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Re: Telling Gnus a server doesn't need authentication?


From: XeCycle
Subject: Re: Telling Gnus a server doesn't need authentication?
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:21:53 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux)

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> XeCycle <xecycle@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> However I think it's better to be able to bypass the checking of
>> existence of a server, or at least, bypass the default .authinfo
>> file when a (nntp-authinfo-file) is specified.  I would assume
>> this parameter tells Gnus to find its authinfo in that file, and
>> skipping default files.
>
> It's an obsolete variable.
>
> See the auth-source variables instead.

Thanks.  It isn't obvious in the Gnus manual.

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