Gnus stripping subjects? (441 Required "Subject" header is missing)

Gnus stripping subjects? (441 Required "Subject" header is missing)

[Steven E. Harris]

Here's a weird problem that seems to be Gnus-related. I have a
secondary news server set up pointing at news.panix.com.¹ When I try
to post there through Gnus, the server reports:

,----
| 441 Required "Subject" header is missing 
| Couldn't send message via news: 441 Required "Subject" header is missing 
`----

Yet my Subject header is definitely there. Other messages are
arriving, so it seems that others are able to post. In fact, I tried
posting interactively over a raw telnet connection and it works fine.

I can post to my primary news server and through Gmane as a secondary
server, but not through Panix. Can anyone offer any clues as to what
Gnus may be doing differently with this server, and how I can go about
inspecting what's getting sent to the server?


Footnotes: 
¹ It's going through a SOCKSv5 gateway via the "connect" program:
  (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '((nntp "panix"
              (nntp-address "news.panix.com")
              (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-telnet-stream)
              (nntp-telnet-command "connect")
              (nntp-telnet-switches ("-s")))

-- 
Steven E. Harris        :: seh@panix.com

Re: Gnus stripping subjects? (441 Required "Subject" header is

[Steven E. Harris]

"Steven E. Harris" <seh@panix.com> writes:

> I can post to my primary news server and through Gmane as a
> secondary server, but not through Panix.

More detail: It turns out I can't post through Gmane either. The
server returns the same 441 error message. My primary select method
works (corporate news server), but neither of my secondary servers
work.

I'm using Gnus from CVS, but Gnus 5.10.2 exhibits the same behavior.

-- 
Steven E. Harris        :: seh@panix.com

Re: Gnus stripping subjects? (441 Required "Subject" header is

[Steven E. Harris]

"Steven E. Harris" <seh@panix.com> writes:

> ¹ It's going through a SOCKSv5 gateway via the "connect" program:
>   (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>       '((nntp "panix"
>               (nntp-address "news.panix.com")
>               (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-telnet-stream)
>               (nntp-telnet-command "connect")
>               (nntp-telnet-switches ("-s")))

There's the problem: Since I'm using an "indirect connection," I need
to set (nntp-end-of-line "\n") for each of my "indirect" select
methods.

All is well now.

-- 
Steven E. Harris        :: seh@panix.com