Cyrus and Usenet

[kael]

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

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

> 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.

-- 
kael
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