Posting to foreign servers broken?

Posting to foreign servers broken?

[Chris Green]

Using XEmacs 21.4.5

Just noticed with CVS Ding that posting to foreign newsgroup servers
using C-u 1 C-c C-c tries to use nntp-address rather than the method
listed in the X-Draft-From line

(gnus-find-method-for-group "nntp+ecelx00.eng.uab.edu:uab-ece-news.classes.ee433")
does indeed return "ecelx00.eng.uab.edu:uab-ece-news.classes.ee433"
though deep inside message-send-and-exit, it's calling (intern
"nntp-address") and I can't figure out why.

Any help would be appreciated 

X-Draft-From: ("nntp+ecelx00.eng.uab.edu:uab-ece-news.classes.ee433" 275)


working around with this for now...

(defun cmg:uab-kludge ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((nntp-address "ecelx00.eng.uab.edu"))
    (message-send-and-exit)))


Here's the ugly backtrace in the hopes it will help someone find whats
going on.

Return value: ("nntp" post address prompt-address physical-address)
  assoc("nntp" (("nntp" post address prompt-address physical-address) ("nnspool" post address) ("nnvirtual" post-mail virtual prompt-address) ("nnmbox" mail respool address) ("nnml" post-mail respool address) ("nnmh" mail respool address) ("nndir" post-mail prompt-address physical-address) ("nneething" none address prompt-address physical-address) ("nndoc" none address prompt-address) ("nnbabyl" mail address respool) ("nnkiboze" post virtual) ("nnsoup" post-mail address) ("nndraft" post-mail) ("nnfolder" mail respool address) ("nngateway" post-mail address prompt-address physical-address) ("nnweb" none) ("nnslashdot" post) ("nnultimate" none) ("nnrss" none) ("nnwfm" none) ("nnwarchive" none) ("nnlistserv" none) ("nnagent" post-mail) ("nnimap" post-mail address prompt-address physical-address) ("nnir" mail)))
* byte-code("..." [method-name servers group server opened method intern-soft gnus-group-name-to-method 2 nil 4 "native" assoc format "%s:%s" "+" intern "%s-address" "" symbol-name address "-address" physical-address append gnus-select-method info gnus-newsrc-hashtb gnus-opened-servers gnus-valid-select-methods gnus-override-method gnus-server-alist gnus-predefined-server-alist gnus-secondary-select-methods] 7)
* gnus-find-method-for-group("nntp+ecelx00.eng.uab.edu:uab-ece-news.test")
  gnus-post-method(1 "nntp+ecelx00.eng.uab.edu:uab-ece-news.test")
  (lambda (arg) (gnus-post-method arg "nntp+ecelx00.eng.uab.edu:uab-ece-news.test"))(1)
  byte-code("..." [group message-syntax-checks alist result item method message-generate-new-buffer-clone-locals " *message temp*" nil message-functionp message-narrow-to-headers-or-head message-fetch-field "Newsgroups" "Followup-To" gnus-find-method-for-group assoc string-match "" append (existing-newsgroups . disabled) t gnus-setup-posting-charset message-check-news-body-syntax message-narrow-to-headers message-generate-headers message-insert-canlock run-hooks message-header-hook (valid-newsgroups . disabled) message-cleanup-headers message-check-news-syntax ((kill-buffer tembuf)) buffer-disable-undo erase-buffer buffer-substring-no-properties message-encode-message-body Lines (Lines) message-remove-header mail-encode-encoded-word-buffer ?\n re-search-forward "^" regexp-quote "\n" replace-match -1 message-send-news-hook gnus-open-server message ...] 5)
  message-send-news(1)
  message-send-via-news(1)
  message-send(1)
  byte-code("..." [message-kill-buffer-on-exit arg message-exit-actions actions buf message-send buffer-name kill-buffer bury-buffer message-bury message-do-actions t] 2)
  message-send-and-exit(1)
  (lambda nil "Call the message-send-and-exit function with a positive number argument\nto make it post the message on the foreign NNTP server of a group, instead\nof the default NNTP server" (interactive) (message-send-and-exit 1))()
  call-interactively(message-send-and-exit-with-prefix)



-- 
Chris Green <cmg@uab.edu>
To err is human, to moo bovine.

Re: Posting to foreign servers broken?

[Kai Großjohann]

Chris Green <cmg@uab.edu> writes:

> Just noticed with CVS Ding that posting to foreign newsgroup servers
> using C-u 1 C-c C-c tries to use nntp-address rather than the method
> listed in the X-Draft-From line

What does your server definition look like?  Maybe it looks like

    (nntp "server.name")

Or maybe it looks like

    (nntp "server.name" (nntp-address "server.name"))

If the former, try to change the server definition to the latter.
Does that help?

IMHO, the kluge that Gnus sometimes uses the Gnus server name as the
host name for NNTP should be excised.

kai
-- 
I like BOTH kinds of music.

Re: Posting to foreign servers broken?

[Chris Green]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Chris Green <cmg@uab.edu> writes:
>
>> Just noticed with CVS Ding that posting to foreign newsgroup servers
>> using C-u 1 C-c C-c tries to use nntp-address rather than the method
>> listed in the X-Draft-From line
>
> What does your server definition look like?  Maybe it looks like
>

Was:
(nntp "sonofmaze.dpo.uab.edu")


Now:
`gnus-select-method' is a variable declared in Lisp.
  -- loaded from "/home/sprout/elisp/gnus/lisp/gnus.elc"

Value: (nntp "sonofmaze.dpo.uab.edu" (nntp-address "sonofmaze.dpo.uab.edu"))

> Does that help?

Unfortunately, no

-- 
Chris Green <cmg@uab.edu>
A watched process never cores.