nntp not working after upgrade

[Dave McMurtrie]

We're running nntp from the caldav-2.4 git branch and it works.  I recall that we had a few issues, but I'm unaware of Ken fixing anything that wouldn't have been committed back.


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> On Jan 5, 2014, at 4:04 PM, "Bron Gondwana" <brong at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> -- 
>> Ulrich Eckhardt                  http://www.uli-eckhardt.de
>> 
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