Re: no permission for rnews
fpage@ntrulez.oche.de (Frederick Page) writes:
> finally got exim up and running with uucp. Everything seemed to work: I
> received email, even could send it.
>
> But when I got news via uucp, the uupoll gave me error-messages and sent
> the following emails to root:
[snip]
> Return-path: <uucp@ntrulez.oche.de>
> Received: from uucp by thebetteros with local (Exim 1.92 #1 (Debian))
> id 108U1T-00003E-00; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:01:07 +0100
> To: downtown!news@ntrulez.oche.de
[snip]
UUCP is trying to send mail (the error message) to "downtown!news".
Exim doesn't understand bang-path addresses, so it thinks that
"downtown!news" must be a username on your system.
You could probably fix this easiest by adding a rewriting rule to
exim.conf:
downtown!*@ntrulez.oche.de ${1}@downtown.oche.de bctrT
OTOH, maybe you don't want your ISP getting heaps of mail because your
system isn't configured properly yet, so it might be best to leave it
for now.
[snip]
> What's wrong? I did uupoll as root, don't understand this. Could someone
> please tell me which commands to "man" and/or to issue? Do I need
> additional software, besides UUCP, exim (kind of sendmail), procmail and
> pine?
You need a news server, such as C News or INN. You're going to have
great fun setting one of them up... ;-)
You might have to then reconfigure UUCP to recognise the enws server.
[snip]
> So the good thing is: the news are saved, but how do I get them back?
> Which command do I need to run in order to re-try and deliver the news?
If one of these files start with "#! rnews ..." you can just run rnews
on it:
# rnews < D.downtowdcc58
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