nntp not working after upgrade

[Dave McMurtrie]

Do you have the "newsgroups" configuration option set in imapd.conf?  That didn't exist in 2.2.  In 2.4, it should default to serving your entire hierarchy (under your news prefix, since you have that set), but I'm not certain.

Take a look at http://cyrusimap.org/docs/cyrus-imapd/2.4.16/man/imapd.conf.5.php for details about the "newsgroups" option and give that a try.

I can tell you that we're running nntp here from the caldav-2.4 branch in production and it's working fine.

hth,

Dave

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From: info-cyrus-bounces+dave64=andrew.cmu.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [info-cyrus-bounces+dave64=andrew.cmu.edu at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] on behalf of Ulrich Eckhardt [cy at uli-eckhardt.de]
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 10:03 AM
To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: nntp not working after upgrade

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>

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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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Ulrich Eckhardt                  http://www.uli-eckhardt.de

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