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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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