Re: do i need nntp? what happens after C-c C-c?

[joelvsmith@earthlink.net (Joel Smith)]

Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org> wrote in message news:<87r7x9307q.fsf@millingtons.org>...
> Hmmm   You are on a dial-up, stand-alone machine? Just guessing from your
> previous message.

i'm using a DSL connection on a PC.  Earthlink is my provider.  I
don't run any servers, i.e. I use the internet through earthlink and i
don't provide anything to the internet...

> 
> In the passage I snipped above there is still some confusion between mail
> and news - these are two very different systems !! 
> 
> Mail - you are trying to send this out using smtp  via sendmail.
> News - you are trying to post to newsgroups using nntp via inn.
> 
> What you do with sendmail/smtp will not effect your newsgroup posts. 
> What you do with inn should not effect your mail.
> 

ok.

> 
> Are you really committed to sendmail as an MTA - almost anything is easier
> to configure!! and Gnus doesn't need it, as the previous poster said.
> If you want a "real" MTA, why not try postfix - MUCH easier!!
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/RH-postfix-HOWTO/book1.html
> 

i'm not committed, but it works and that makes me happy.  since it
doesn't affect posts and the news stuff doesn't affect mail.  i'll
keep sendmail.

> 
> And INN !!!!  If you want a server on a home computer, use little
> Leafnode
> 
> http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/News-Leafsite.html#toc4
> 

ok.  hmm.  my problem is that gnus doesn't want to post a long
message.  i chose inn to post it for me.  i don't even want a news
server.  i just want to post... but (see next comment)

> 
> And next time post the exact error message you received .....
> 

i don't get an error message.  without /usr/bin/inet (standard gnus,
declare news.east.earthlink.net as my server, and smtp-message as the
way to post) my posting returns 503 program error or time out
(couldn't talk to news server).  note that with small messages they
post fine.  since i can't seem to fix gnus i chose inn in the vain
hope of finding an alternative.

with /usr/bin/inet i hit c-c c-c, it sends sending, and then a second
later my message disappears, but never showed up in the newsgroups i
was sending it to...  will /var/log/mailog describe what happened to
my post?  what will?

> 
> 
> Hope that helps
> 

Thank you for your comments.