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- From: carter@cemvax.cem.msu.edu (Tom Carter)
- Subject: re: WnQVT/Net Mail and news reader
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.124135.14387@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu
- Organization: Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan
- References: <1992Sep09.072516.12557@frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 12:41:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep09.072516.12557@frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au> mmtl@cc.flinders.edu.au (T.Lampre) writes:
- >
- >I have just installed WnQVT/Net 2.70 under Win 3.1. I have telnet and
- >ftp working fine but I cannot get the mail and newsreader to work.
- >
- >When I select 'Mail' from the services menu it asks me for a host,
- >username and password. I give it all the details but it fails on the
- >'PASS' command. I'm sure the password is correct. We have DOS versions
- >of pop-mail working on other PC's so I don't think it's the host. I've
- >tried using both names and IP numbers for the host.
- >
- >Also, the 'News' option is always greyed no matter what I do with the
- >config settings. I have used our NNTP server with gnus under emacs so
- >I know it should work.
- >
- >Our PC support people have no experience with this software so any
- >help will be greatly appreciated.
- >
- >Trevor Lampre
- ><mmtl@cc.flinders.edu.au>
- >Flinders University of South Australia
-
- Sorry, I can't help with the POP mail problem, but for News, you need to
- make a (initially empty) text file called NEWS.RC and place it in your QVT
- directory. That should ungray the selection and we'll go from there...
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