8.9 NNTP

Mew uses NNTP to read/write News articles. This section describes following variables to control NNTP.

‘mew-nntp-server’

The name of your NNTP server.

‘mew-nntp-ssh-server’

The name of SSH server which forwards the NNTP port.

‘mew-nntp-ssl’

If non-nil, NNTP connections are made over SSL.

‘mew-nntp-ssl-port’

The port for NNTP over SSL.

‘mew-nntp-user’

The user name on the NNTP server. If non-nil, authentication is used. (Note that mew-nntp-auth does not exist.)

‘mew-nntp-newsgroup’

The name of default Newsgroup.

‘mew-nntp-size’

The limit size of messages to be retrieved by NNTP. The default is 55296 byte. 0 means unlimited, so you can get all messages from the NNTP server.

‘mew-nntp-header-only’

Whether or not the body of a message is retrieved by NNTP. If non-nil, only header is retrieved.

‘mew-nntp-msgid-user’

A user name for creation of Message-Id:. If ‘nil’, the value of ‘mew-user’ is used. The default is ‘nil’.

‘mew-nntp-msgid-domain’

A domain name for creation of Message-Id:. If ‘nil’, the value of ‘mew-mail-domain’ is used. The default is ‘nil’.

A value of Message-Id: for NNTP is created by the following rule:

message-id = *random*.nntp-msgid-user@nntp-msgid-domain

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