Opera Mail 1.0 - can't post to grc newsgroup

dacid7

dacid7

Hi forum -
I've been trying this for a few days and am stumped. I installed Opera mail and configured a connection to the grc.com newsgroup. As indicated here https://www.grc.com/configoe.htm#account I configured an identical username and password for the Outgoing SMTP server. Wasn't sure which Authentication method to use, so I just left it to "Auto"

I can fetch messages just fine. But if I compose a message to the grc.test newsgroup and send it, the message just stays in the outbox forever and never gets sent.

Any ideas? As I typed this I saw that the grc.com site mentions "Secure Password Authentication".

Here are the settings I configured in Account Properties -> servers:

NNTP server
Server = news.grc.com
Port number = 119
Authentication=None
Username=
Password=

Outgoing SMTP server
Server = news.grc.com
Port = 25
Authentication = Auto
Username = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Password = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

TIA
Dave

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer

This worked for me:

On the "Servers" tab in the account's properties:

NNTP server
Server: news.grc.com
Port number: 119
TLS: unchecked
Authentication: (Auto) (which should do (Plaintext)
Username: Make up a long and hard-to-guess one
Password: Use the exact value you used for the username value

Outgoing SMTP Server
Server: blank
Port number: 0
TLS: unchecked
Authentication: none
Username: blank
Password: blank

On the "General" tab, make sure to set a fake email address and set your name.

Subscribe to grc.test and compose a new message to grc.test to test. Delete any queued messages in the outbox that you previously tried to send.

dacid7

dacid7

Yes, that worked!
I never thought to leave Outgoing blank... I never noticed "SMTP" in there.

Thanks!
Dave

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer

I never thought to leave Outgoing blank.

Yeah, it's either because the developers didn't customize the account setup wizard and "Servers" tab in the account's properties for newsgroups to remove the outgoing server stuff or there's still some use for the Outgoing server stuff (to send a copy to an actual email account). Don't know for sure, but in general, just ignore the outgoing server settings when dealing with newsgroups.