nntp fiddling

[Ken Murchison]

Nils Vogels wrote:

> Ken Murchison wrote:
> 
>> Nils Vogels wrote:
>>
>>> Muchos gracias ;-)
>>>
>>> I will try this ASAP! Could you tell me, where I can find the new 
>>> fetchnews? Is it in CVS?
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> I also had a sucknews (but then in reverse) to grab the posts done on 
>>> the Cyrus newsserver to be fed towards USENET, since my provider only 
>>> allows me to use the POST command, and from what I recall, Cyrus uses 
>>> IHAVE ? (Could be a little bit off here, not sure anymore).
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, it uses IHAVE.  I can take a look at adding support for POST (the 
>> commands are almost identical).  Does your provider also require you 
>> to authenticate?
>>
> Sorry I bailed out there, got cought in this thing called IRL :)
> 
> I've just installed 2.2.3 with new fetchnews, and am kinda stuck ;)
> 
> I've created a new partition for news, and adapted the config to have 
> the newsuser set etc, and while this was running smoothly using lmtp 
> inject (via suck), I'm having some issues trying to get this to work 
> using fetchnews.
> 
> Fetchnews works fine, I can see articles flying around when tcpdumping 
> while fetchnews is running, fetchnews.db is being updated and all, but 
> for some reason, the articles do not show up in my new partition.
> 
> I'm trying nl.test from my upstream, and this is my current setup:
> 
> cyrus.conf:
> SERVICES {
>    ....
>  # these are only necessary if receiving/exporting usenet via NNTP
>  nntp          cmd="nntpd"  listen="nntp" prefork=0
>  nntps         cmd="nntpd -s" listen="nntps" prefork=0
>    ....
> }
> 
> imapd.conf:
> partition-news: /disk/3/cyrus/news
> ###newsspool: /var/spool/news
> newsprefix: news
> newspostuser: usenet
> newspeer: news.myisp.nl
> 
> 
> localhost> info news.nl.test
> {news.nl.test}:
>  expire: 7
>  lastupdate: 16-Jan-2004 14:11:10 +0100
>  partition: news
>  size: 0
> localhost> lam news.nl.test
> anyone lrsp
> 
> imhotep# telnet 0 119
> Trying 0.0.0.0...
> Connected to 0.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 200 post.is-root.com Cyrus NNTP v2.2.3 server ready, posting allowed
> groups
> 480 Authentication required
> authinfo user <snip>
> 381 Give AUTHINFO PASS command
> authinfo pass <snip>
> 281 User logged in

You can use nntptest to make the connection/authentication, instead of 
telneting.


> groups
> 500 Unrecognized command
> list newsgroups
> 215 List of newsgroups follows:
> .

LIST NEWSGROUPS will only return data for those mailboxes that have the 
/comment annotation set on them.  For a list of groups on the server, 
use either LIST or LIST ACTIVE.


> group nl.test
> 211 0 1 0 nl.test
> article 1
> 423 No such article in this newsgroup
> article 0
> 423 No such article in this newsgroup
> quit
> 205 Connection closing
> 
> Thanks for reading this far :)
> 
> Iam trying to fetch news with:
> 
> /usr/local/cyrus/bin/fetchnews -n -u user -p password -w nl.test 
> news.myisp.nl
> 
> The process works, updates the watermarks, and then exits with status 0, 
> but unfortunately, no articles are being injected into Cyrus.
> 
> Is there a very obvious step I am missing ? Where should I look for more 
> hints ?


Can you get a dump of the NNTP protocol between fetchnews and your peer 
and fetchnews and nntpd?  Go ahead and blank out the passwords, I don't 
care to see them.


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