nntp not working after upgrade

[Bron Gondwana]

I think the problem is that just about nobody is running nntp, so it didn't get
much testing.  I have a rough idea what the bug is likely to be.

Can you please file this on bugzilla and assign it to me.  I'll try to build a
testcase.  You might need to build your own Cyrus to get it fixed though :(

Bron.

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014, at 02:03 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have upgraded my server to from debian 6 (with cyrus 2.2) to debian 7 
> (with cyrus 2.4.16). After this upgrade it is not possible anymore to 
> feed news into my imap-spool.
> 
> In the logs i get the following output from fetchnews:
> Jan  5 12:21:55 h1690828 cyrus/fetchnews[6474]: fetchnews: nntp.aioe.org 
> offered 4; localhost rejected 0, accepted 0, failed 4
> 
> The nntpd logs the following:
> ---------- 127.0.0.1 Sun Jan  5 13:28:06 2014
> 
>  >1388924886>200 h1690828.stratoserver.net Cyrus NNTP 
> v2.4.16-Debian-2.4.16-4+deb7u1 server ready, posting allowed
> <1388924886<IHAVE <dan-20131021-2247-01 at moderators.dana.de>
>  >1388924886>335 <dan-20131021-2247-01 at moderators.dana.de> Send article
> <1388924886<Path: 
> aioe.org!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
> From: Henning Sponbiel xxxxxxx
> Newsgroups: de.alt.netdigest
> Subject: [de.rec.sport.fussball] Re: Es brennt der Baum...
> Followup-To: de.talk.jokes.d
> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:48:43 +0000 (UTC)
> Organization: MB-NET.NET for Open-News-Network e.V.
>    ....
>  >1388924886>436 <dan-20131021-2247-01 at moderators.dana.de> Failed 
> receiving article (Mailbox does not exist)
> <1388924887<IHAVE <dan-20131021-2247-02 at moderators.dana.de>
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> So it seems there is something wrong with my mailboxes. So I have 
> removed the mailboxes for news and recreated them as described in
> http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/mediawiki/index.php/NNTP
> 
> According cyradm the mailboxes exist and seems to have the correct 
> permissions:
> 
> h1690828:/var/lib/cyrus/log/127.0.0.1#  cyradm localhost
> Password:
> localhost.localdomain> lm
> INBOX (\HasNoChildren)
> Trash (\HasNoChildren)
> news.de.alt.netdigest (\HasNoChildren)
> news.de.alt.sysadmin.recovery (\HasNoChildren)
> user.uli (\HasChildren)
> ..
> localhost.localdomain> lam news.de.alt.netdigest
> anyone lrsp
> localhost.localdomain> lam news.de.alt.sysadmin.recovery
> anyone lrsp
> 
> In the imapd.conf file I have the following entries regarding news:
> # News setup
> partition-news: /var/spool/cyrus/news
> allownewnews: 0
> newsprefix: news
> 
> # Alternate namespace
> # If enabled, activate the alternate namespace as documented in
> # /usr/share/doc/cyrus-doc-2.4/html/altnamespace.html, where an user's
> # subfolders are in the same level as the INBOX
> # See also userprefix and sharedprefix on imapd.conf(5)
> altnamespace: no
> 
> # UNIX Hierarchy Convention
> # Set to yes, and cyrus will accept dots in names, and use the forward
> # slash "/" to delimit levels of the hierarchy. This is done by
> unixhierarchysep: no
> 
> So I have no idea where to search next for this problem. Is there a 
> possibility to log which mailbox the nntpd expects?
> 
> Best Regards
> Uli
> -- 
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> 
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