From: Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug)
To: wgreenhouse@riseup.net (W. Greenhouse)
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can't send emails to this list via gmane?
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:06:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9phxsp5.fsf@krugs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5d6qgxy.fsf@riseup.net> (W. Greenhouse's message of "Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:00:41 +0000")
wgreenhouse@riseup.net (W. Greenhouse) writes:
> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Yes - I checked there just now and nothing was in there. In addition, I
>> assume that the email would have been send via my (only) smtp account
>> which is gmail, and the mail should have been in the "Send Items" -
>> nothing there (checked via the web interface as well).
>
> Except it's not an email. It's a Usenet article. :)
>
> Messages to Gmane (or any NNTP server) don't travel through SMTP at all,
> so it would never get the chance to show up in Gmail's Sent box. With
> newsgroups, the NNTP stream is used both to send and to receive
> messages. Gmail is not in the loop for this communication at
> all--except when Gmane detects that a particular sender has never posted
> to that group before, and sends an email to the From: address for
> verification.
Makes sense - explains why they are not there.
>
>>>> Same as above - I do not assume that I am blocked when using gnus but
>>>> not thunderbird.
>>>
>>> To clarify, are you posting directly to the mailing list with
>>> Thunderbird, or to Gmane?
>>
>> via gmane on thunderbird.
>
> Ah, Thunderbird was using NNTP, then? Then that's especially
> peculiar.
Yup - it did.
>
>>> Being blocked from Gmane and blocked from the
>>> "upstream" mailing list are not the same thing; that's completely
>>> different machines, with different administrators, and potentially
>>> different lists of IPs suspected of spam.
>>
>> Sure - two different receivers.
>>
>>>
>>> Your description of the order of events, though, makes it sound like the
>>> message was delivered to Gmane but the required confirmation email was
>>> mislaid somehow.
>>
>> I thought the same - but I did not see any.
>>
>> Any suggestions how I can check this?
>>
>> Rainer
>
> I would check your NNTP configuration. Maybe rather than using the
> "browse foreign groups" feature, you can set things up explicitly.
> Below are some known working settings for Gmane.
>
> While keeping Gmail as your primary select method, try
>
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
> '((nntp "news.gmane.org"
> (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-tls-stream)
> (nntp-port-number 563))))
>
Did it, but still can't send via the newsserver. But I stick with email
at the moment and will evaluate later.
Thanks,
Rainer
> Other NNTP servers can be added later along a similar pattern.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-02 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-28 20:12 Rainer M Krug
2013-03-29 15:11 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-03-29 15:26 ` Rainer M Krug
2013-03-29 15:40 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-03-29 16:41 ` Rainer M Krug
2013-03-29 17:00 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-04-02 8:06 ` Rainer M. Krug [this message]
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