Cyrus and Usenet

[Ken Murchison]

kael wrote:

> On 27.02.2005 15:47, Ken Murchison wrote:
> 
>> kael wrote:
>>
>>> On 24.02.2005 15:36, Ken Murchison wrote:
>>>
>>>> The newsspool option is deprecated and not needed.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have managed imapd.conf like this:
>>>
>>> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
>>> partition-news: /var/spool/imap/news
>>> altnamespace: yes
>>> newspeer: news-in.newsfeeds.com:119 news-out.newsfeeds.com:119
>>> unixhierarchysep: yes
>>> newsprefix: Usenet
>>>
>>>> Have you created the "Usenet.comp.mail.imap" mailbox on your "news" 
>>>> partition (/var/spool/imap/news) and given at least the "anonymous" 
>>>> user   the "p" right?  You probably want to grant your newsgroups 
>>>> "anyone lrsp".
>>>
>>>
>>> localhost.localdomain> cm Usenet/comp.mail.imap
>>> localhost.localdomain> sam Usenet/comp.mail.imap anyone lrsp
>>
>>
>> Since you have enabled unixhierarchysep, you should create
>>
>> Usenet/comp/mail/imap
>>
>> This is the IMAP name of the mailbox.
> 
> 
> I ran :
> 
> localhost.localdomain> cm Usenet/comp/mail/imap
> 
> and tree sub-mailboxes have been created, I started nntpd and nothing is 
> delivered into "imap".
> 
> I still don't get it. :-[

Can an NNTP client access the server and see the comp.mail.imap group?

You could also login in with nntptest and try:

LIST
GROUP comp.mail.imap

You could also try using the POST command.


> 
> I searched for an HowTo about using Cyrus-nntpd but I can't find any, 
> the 'man pages' don't seem to be enough (for me).
> 
> Thanks.
> 


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