diff --git a/emacs-24.3-nntp-typhoon-fix.patch b/emacs-24.3-nntp-typhoon-fix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0056f09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/emacs-24.3-nntp-typhoon-fix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+ lisp/gnus/nntp.el |    2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- a/lisp/gnus/nntp.el
++++ b/lisp/gnus/nntp.el
+@@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@ If SEND-IF-FORCE, only send authinfo to
+ 		     "nntpd" pbuffer nntp-address nntp-port-number
+ 		     :type (cadr (assoc nntp-open-connection-function map))
+ 		     :end-of-command "^\\([2345]\\|[.]\\).*\n"
+-		     :capability-command "CAPABILITIES\r\n"
++		     :capability-command "HELP\r\n"
+ 		     :success "^3"
+ 		     :starttls-function
+ 		     (lambda (capabilities)
diff --git a/emacs.changes b/emacs.changes
index 3cba53d..9bbd6ff 100644
--- a/emacs.changes
+++ b/emacs.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Jun 15 15:14:01 UTC 2013 - toganm@opensuse.org
+
+- Fix connection problem to Typhoon nntp servers. Instead of
+  CAPABILITIES use HELP 
+  *  emacs-24.3-nntp-typhoon-fix.patch 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jun  7 07:53:58 UTC 2013 - werner@suse.de
 
diff --git a/emacs.spec b/emacs.spec
index 1667638..c4d5fb9 100644
--- a/emacs.spec
+++ b/emacs.spec
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ Patch16:        emacs-24.3-flyspell.patch
 Patch22:        emacs-24.1-bnc628268.patch
 Patch23:        emacs-24.3-xevent.patch
 Patch25:        emacs-24.3-giflib5.patch
+Patch26:        emacs-24.3-nntp-typhoon-fix.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %{expand: %%global _exec_prefix %(type -p pkg-config &>/dev/null && pkg-config --variable prefix x11 || echo /usr/X11R6)}
 %if "%_exec_prefix" == "/usr/X11R6"
@@ -216,6 +217,7 @@ and most assembler-like syntaxes.
 %patch22 -p0
 %patch23 -p0
 %patch25 -p0
+%patch26 -p1 
 
 %if %{without autoconf}
 # We don't want to run autoconf