From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3473 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joelvsmith@earthlink.net (Joel Smith) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: do i need nntp? what happens after C-c C-c? Date: 4 Feb 2004 13:54:42 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8c14dcec.0402041354.1353b185@posting.google.com> References: <8c14dcec.0402031005.41be4a22@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669580 19119 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:06:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:06:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:32:16 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.118.18.17 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1075931682 25878 127.0.0.1 (4 Feb 2004 21:54:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 21:54:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3614 Original-Lines: 49 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3614 Tue Jan 17 17:32:16 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3473 Archived-At: Yoni Rabkin Katzenell wrote in message news:... > joelvsmith@earthlink.net (Joel Smith) writes: > > > i've been having trouble replying to messages through gnus. i use > > fedora core 1, sendmail as my MTA, connect through earthlink for mail > > and internet. i can read mail and post directly to newsgroups > > but any time i post something substantial i get 503 time out or > > program error, can't talk to news... or something like that... i > > just noticed that i am not running nntp. should this be up and > > running? > > Go to the *trace of...* buffer after attempting to send your mail and > see how the session looks like. Note that you have to make a clear > distinction between email and newsgroups, two very different things. > > > this may be the wrong question but what happens when i hit C-c C-c? > > does gnus and emacs send my message to the mail queue? and then > > sendmail delivers it??? any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Gnus has its own SMTP implementation so that it does not need sendmail > to send the mail. You can see the function as it is defined in my > dotgnus file: > > (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) > (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) First. Thnak you! I have in my .gnus file (require 'smtpmail) ; i'm not at home, this line is from memory (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) I can post a message through gnus (i.e. type 'a' in gnus, write a new message that isn't too long and then send it), but i can't seem to follow-up and yank or anything that creates a large message or that has lines longer than 79 characters. i don't even get a trace. i just get 503 time out or program error, can't talk to the news server (which is listed in the *Messages* buffer). i guess the first place to start is to track all the things that gnus and emacs does when I hit C-c C-c. How can this be done? Please, please help, because I'm the type of person who will go insane if I don't get an answer. I believe that there must be a problem between gnus and earthlink (not with my MTA--sendmail), and the first step is to figure out what is not working. Any help would be greatly appreciated.