On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 05:21:49PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 02:36:05PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> > > I hope somebody can help me with this one: Why do my messages posted to a
> > > newsgroup from slrn land up in /var/spool/slrnpull/out.going/rejected?
> > Without seeing any error messages it's hard to say, but I would guess
> > that the problem is that the upstream news server is rejecting them.
> > Do you need to authenticate to post? Do your posts contain a very small
> > proportion of non-quoted material? What error do you get if you try to
> > post directly to the server?
> I did not see any error messages. When I saw that my message did not
> appear on the newsgroup, I checked the out.going directory to find the
> message in "rejected". I have a dialup system and slrnpull is activated
> from /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
Well, see the questions above. Try moving the articles into the
outgoing directory and running slrnpull from the command line. Try
looking in the system logs in /var/log to see if any information went
there.
To test directly against the server, run "telnet nntp.server 119" then
in response to the prompt say "POST" then cut and paste your article
into telnet and end it with a line containing a single ".". "QUIT"
closes the session.
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