Subj : NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
To : MRO
From : Mindsurfer
Date : Mon Nov 03 2025 06:21 pm
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.
