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  Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
  By: MRO to Stephan Gebbers on Sun Nov 02 2025 22:57:59

 >> well, there is not very much documentation in the wiki or the old docs
 >> about NNTP. If i give my users access to NNTP i don't want them to be able
 >> to easily make a mess. (By default you dont have to authenticate at all to
 >> access NNTP for example). And if i as the sysop do not know much about the
 >> NNTP+synchronet details, how can i expect them users to handle it
 >> correctly.

 MR> There's not much to it.  not sure what you mean by easily make a mess.
 MR> You just connect to the port with a client. you also have to do that with
 MR> http, telnet and whatever other services you use.
maybe i don't understand yet how the bbs behind the nntp(s) service is
handling what it gets from the newsreader. I will continue testing the nntp(s)
feature and see if i can send out something messy ;)
ok, by default you do not authenticate using nntp(s), so (as i understand now)
you just act like you do with the user rights of your bbs guest account.

 MR> i'm not sure what you mean by authentication.  just don't use a guest
 MR> account and have your bbs setup in a secure manner.
i think in Pan you can define a login/password in the usenet server setting
right away (as it should be), but i think in Thunderbird (and that's what i
started with) you have to require your nntp(s) service a non anonymous login
(parameter -na) to get a user/password popup in Thunderbird. By dedault i
think the nntp(s) service starts with no parameters or with -f parameter only
and Thunderbird just does not provide a user/password field for the Newsgroup
account. So it is a bit dificult to login as a non anonymous user using
Thunderbird if you don't require your nntp(s) service a non anonymous login
via -na parameter.

Mindsurfer

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