followup to 'I can't post and article'

followup to 'I can't post and article'

[Daniel A. Monjar]

My problem was a bad From entry.  I was playing with some stuff,
testing someone's theory that since spam harvesters only look at the
>From header that by having a bad from and a correct Reply-To one could
reduce spam stuff.  After finally looking in the *Messages* buffer it
became obvious what was going on:


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Loading mail-extr...
Loading mail-extr...done
Denied posting -- the From looks strange: "Daniel Monjar".
No methods specified to send by
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So I removed the From entry in .gnus:

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Sending...
There is no From line.  Posting is denied.
No methods specified to send by
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Guess it's looking for a '@' in the From?:

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Sending...
Loading cl-seq...
Loading cl-seq...done
Sending...done
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All is working now.  Less than helpful error message though.

Thanks for the replies!

-- 
Daniel Monjar (mailto:dmonjar@orgtek.com)
Organon Teknika
Durham, NC US

Re: followup to 'I can't post and article'

[Peter von der Ahé]

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>>>>> "DAM" == Daniel A Monjar <dmonjar@orgtek.com> writes:

 DAM> All is working now.  Less than helpful error message though.

I was having the same problem earlier today, I have attached a patch,
which will save the helpful error message in the minibuffer.

Cheers,
Peter


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diff -rc pgnus-0.96.orig/lisp/ChangeLog pgnus-0.96/lisp/ChangeLog
*** pgnus-0.96.orig/lisp/ChangeLog	Fri Aug 27 15:17:01 1999
--- pgnus-0.96/lisp/ChangeLog	Fri Aug 27 19:59:35 1999
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*** 1,3 ****
--- 1,8 ----
+ 1999-08-27  Peter von der Ahé  <pahe@daimi.au.dk>
+ 
+ 	* message.el (message-send): More helpful error message if sending
+ 	fails
+ 
  Fri Aug 27 13:17:48 1999  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen  <larsi@menja.ifi.uio.no>
  
  	* gnus.el: Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96 is released.
diff -rc pgnus-0.96.orig/lisp/message.el pgnus-0.96/lisp/message.el
*** pgnus-0.96.orig/lisp/message.el	Fri Aug 27 15:17:11 1999
--- pgnus-0.96/lisp/message.el	Fri Aug 27 19:56:22 1999
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*** 2010,2016 ****
  				(car elem))))
  			  (setq success (funcall (caddr elem) arg)))))
  	(setq sent t)))
!     (unless sent
        (error "No methods specified to send by"))
      (when (and success sent)
        (message-do-fcc)
--- 2010,2016 ----
  				(car elem))))
  			  (setq success (funcall (caddr elem) arg)))))
  	(setq sent t)))
!     (unless (or sent (not success))
        (error "No methods specified to send by"))
      (when (and success sent)
        (message-do-fcc)