Sent-Message-IDs file

Sent-Message-IDs file

[d. hall]

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What is it, where is it (variable wise), What does it do?  Is it the answer
to life?  Can it do dishes?  I've found this file which appears to be empty
for the most part.  I didn't see anything listed in the ChangeLog (as far
as grep'ing through it).  I'm just curious as to what it is.

d.
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Browse Foreign Server:

[Muhammad Farrukh Khan]

So far, I have been unable to read an nntp server outside of my school.  Each
site seems to come back with "Unable to contact server: could'nt open
connection to ".  Other times I also got a message "Server does not have
permission to talk...".  Am I missing something?

Thanks

Farrukh

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Muhammad Farrukh Khan, khan@cs.purdue.edu
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Re: Browse Foreign Server:

[Samuel Tardieu]

>>>>> "Muhammad" == Muhammad Farrukh Khan <khan@cs.purdue.edu> writes:

Muhammad> So far, I have been unable to read an nntp server outside of
Muhammad> my school.  Each site seems to come back with "Unable to
Muhammad> contact server: could'nt open connection to ".  Other times
Muhammad> I also got a message "Server does not have permission to
Muhammad> talk...".  Am I missing something?

You cannot connect to an arbitrary NNTP server and expect it to honore
your requests. You must connect either to an open NNTP server (there
is a list somewhere on the web, use a search engine to locate it) or
to a NNTP server which has been set up to let your particuliar host
access it.

  Sam
--
"La cervelle des petits enfants, ca doit avoir comme un petit gout de noisette"
                                                       Charles Baudelaire

Re: Sent-Message-IDs file

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

dhall@illusion.apk.net (d. hall) writes:

> What is it, where is it (variable wise),

`gnus-sent-message-ids-file', stangely enough.  :-)

> What does it do? 

It's supposed to contain the Message-IDs of all sent messages to be
able to warn the user when she tries to send a mail she has already
sent.  This is useful when dealing with SOUP mail packets.

-- 
  "Yes.  The journey through the human heart 
     would have to wait until some other time."

Re: Browse Foreign Server:

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

khan@cs.purdue.edu (Muhammad Farrukh Khan) writes:

> So far, I have been unable to read an nntp server outside of my school.  Each
> site seems to come back with "Unable to contact server: could'nt open
> connection to ".  Other times I also got a message "Server does not have
> permission to talk...".  Am I missing something?

This probably means that you don't have permission to talk to the
server.

Try the following:

$ telnet the.nntp.server nntp

and see what it says.

-- 
  "Yes.  The journey through the human heart 
     would have to wait until some other time."