gnus: Common Variables
6.2.1.3 Common Variables
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The following variables affect the behavior of all, or several of the
pre-made connection functions. When not specified, all functions are
affected (the values of the following variables will be used as the
default if each virtual ‘nntp’ server doesn’t specify those server
variables individually).
‘nntp-pre-command’
A command wrapper to use when connecting through a non native
connection function (all except ‘nntp-open-network-stream’,
‘nntp-open-tls-stream’, and ‘nntp-open-ssl-stream’). This is where
you would put a ‘SOCKS’ wrapper for instance.
‘nntp-address’
The address of the NNTP server.
‘nntp-port-number’
Port number to connect to the NNTP server. The default is ‘nntp’.
If you use NNTP over TLS/SSL, you may want to use integer ports
rather than named ports (i.e., use ‘563’ instead of ‘snews’ or
‘nntps’), because external TLS/SSL tools may not work with named
ports.
‘nntp-end-of-line’
String to use as end-of-line marker when talking to the NNTP
server. This is ‘\r\n’ by default, but should be ‘\n’ when using a
non native telnet connection function.
‘nntp-netcat-command’
Command to use when connecting to the NNTP server through ‘netcat’.
This is _not_ for an intermediate host. This is just for the real
NNTP server. The default is ‘nc’.
‘nntp-netcat-switches’
A list of switches to pass to ‘nntp-netcat-command’. The default
is ‘()’.
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