On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 02:56:28PM +0100, Michael Karcher wrote: > The patches you pulled from the unreleased version 2.4.1 are known to break > -A to force nntp authentication. A fix is available in > http://lists.tin.org/pipermail/tin-dev/2016-December/000042.html
I belive this has been fixed upstream in tin 2.4.1 (just released).