Cyrus and Usenet

[Ken Murchison]

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.


> Is the 'p' right necessary ? I don't want to deliver posting access to 
> Usenet.

Yes.  I should probably tie this to the newsmaster option instead, but 
I'd have to think about this.


> 
>> Have you told your news provider to send you articles?
> 
> 
> Yes. The articles seem to be delivered:
> 
> $ tcpdump
> 
> 02:13:48.015469 IP news-out.newsfeeds.com.4435 >
> snip.fbx.proxad.net.nntp: . ack 160 win 64909
> ...
> 02:15:09.501562 IP news-out.newsfeeds.com.4435 >
> snip.fbx.proxad.net.nntp: . ack 1374 win 65163
> ...
> 02:22:37.082797 snip.fbx.proxad.net.nntp >
> news-out.newsfeeds.com.4976: P 5644:5746(102) ack 112942 win 32767
> 
> And my peer's asking to let the feed out - I hope the 'newspeer' option 
> in imapd.conf is enough for this purpose.
> 
>> Do you have a local NNTP client that can access your Cyrus server and 
>> LIST newsgroups and POST articles (you can do this with nntptest if 
>> you know how to use NNTP manually)?  If not, you need to fix this 
>> before worrying about accepting articles from the outside.
> 
> 
> [root@ ]# /usr/bin/nntptest -p 119 -u cyrus
> WARNING: no hostname supplied, assuming localhost
> 
> S: 200 snip.fbx.proxad.net Cyrus NNTP v2.2.10-Invoca-RPM-2.
> ...
> list newsgroups
> 215 List of newsgroups follows:
> .
> 
> It seems that the server is empty.
> 
> [root@ ] /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/nntpd was not successful.
> 
> I'm wondering where the articles should be stored on the disk and how to 
> manage rights.
> 
> Thanks you very much for your help.
> 


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