Re: [Evolution] Newsgroup error?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

You'll need to make sure you set the username in the account editor, for it to prompt for a password.

Also, I think 2.0.2 has a few bugs which have since been fixed, try 2.0.3 if you can.

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 14:31 -0600, Ken Keefe wrote:
> I have been trying to get Evolution to handle my news groups, since I
> recently discovered that Evolution has that ability. I am able to
> connect to the news server with a slew of other clients like KNode and
> Thunderbird. However, when I try to subscribe to folders in Evolution, I
> get the following error:
>
> Error while performing operation.
>
> Error retrieving newsgroups:
>
> 281 Ok.
>
> Does anyone know what this error code means?
>
> The server is password protected and Evolution still has not prompted me
> to enter my password, so that might be the problem. Anyway, I'd
> appreciate any help I can get to get it working... I'd like to be able
> to stop using a second client for news.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Keefe
>
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