From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3477 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: 5 Feb 2004 14:21:41 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8c14dcec.0402051421.11a9bd91@posting.google.com> References: <8c14dcec.0402031005.41be4a22@posting.google.com> <8c14dcec.0402050739.16ab5d7d@posting.google.com> <87r7x9307q.fsf@millingtons.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669583 19129 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:06:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:06:23 +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!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!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 1076019701 28615 127.0.0.1 (5 Feb 2004 22:21:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 22:21:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3618 Original-Lines: 67 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3618 Tue Jan 17 17:32:16 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3477 Archived-At: Glyn Millington 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.