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Bug 267895 - nntp support not asking for password
nntp support not asking for password
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.0.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 268679 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-10-09 17:23 UTC by Iain McCoy
Modified: 2013-09-10 14:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
what evolution prints when CAMEL_DEBUG=all and I click on the newsgroup name in the folder pane (836 bytes, text/plain)
2004-10-12 04:20 UTC, Iain McCoy 		  Details
should fix, but not tested against authenticating server (5.55 KB, patch)
2004-10-12 04:56 UTC, Not Zed 		none Details | Review
updated with another slightly unrelated fix (5.88 KB, patch)
2004-10-12 05:13 UTC, Not Zed 		none Details | Review

Description Iain McCoy 2004-10-09 17:23:54 UTC 
The newsgroup server run by the university I attend requires a password to
do anything. Because of this, after I subscribe to a group and double-click
on its entry in the folder list (expecting a list of subjects of posts to
the newsgroup to appear), I get an error message: "Unexpected server
response from xover: 480 Authentication required for command."

There doesn't seem to be any mechanism to force evolution to authenticate
before trying to run the command or react to the error by authenticating
and trying again.
Comment 1 Not Zed 2004-10-12 02:49:05 UTC 
try forgetting passwords and trying again

it should handle auth transparently, and ask for a password if required.

if that fails run evolution with CAMEL_DEBUG=all set in the
environment and attach the log of nntp traffic here when you try to
access the server.
Comment 2 Iain McCoy 2004-10-12 04:20:48 UTC 
Created attachment 44319 [details]
what evolution prints when CAMEL_DEBUG=all and I click on the newsgroup name in the folder pane
Comment 3 Not Zed 2004-10-12 04:44:07 UTC 
ok looks like a few cases it doesn't handle auth.

can you test a patch?
Comment 4 Iain McCoy 2004-10-12 04:55:21 UTC 
As long as evolution's build process isn't particularly weird, yes.
Comment 5 Not Zed 2004-10-12 04:56:56 UTC 
Created attachment 44321 [details] [review]
should fix, but not tested against authenticating server
Comment 6 Not Zed 2004-10-12 05:13:49 UTC 
Created attachment 44322 [details] [review]
updated with another slightly unrelated fix
Comment 7 Iain McCoy 2004-10-12 06:45:57 UTC 
attachment 44322 [details] [review] fixes this bug for me.
Comment 8 Jeffrey Stedfast 2004-10-13 17:57:29 UTC 
this has been committed to cvs
Comment 9 Gerardo Marin 2004-10-25 22:59:26 UTC 
*** bug 268679 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***