Bug#2220: INN feed password interacts badly with trn XMODE READER

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@debian.het.net>]

You (Ian Jackson) wrote:
> Package: inn
> Version: 1.4sec-7
>
> If you have a hosts.nntp line something like:
>  news.foo.ac.uk:sesame
> (indicating that news.foo.ac.uk may connect, but must supply the
> password `sesame') then you get the following behaviour from INN:
>
> 200 chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk InterNetNews server INN 1.4 22-Dec-93 ready
> xmode reader
> 480
> mode reader
> 200 chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk InterNetNews NNRP server INN 1.4 22-Dec-93 ready (posting ok).
>
> Unfortunately trn, when uses `mode reader' to switch what might be an
> INN server into reading mode, tries `xmode reader' first.  It then
> bombs out because it doesn't understand the 480 response code.

INN 1.4unoff3 replies with
500 What?

So, when we switch to INN unoff4 it will be fixed.
(I'm still waiting on David Barr to release it).

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