Re: article not sent

Sam Varshavchik writes:

> > playing with netnews and tried posting an article and got this:
> >
> > The NetNews server rejected the message with the following error:
> >
> >     441 Invalid header "Message-ID: 
> > <cone.1070382251.59972.6687.500-/c8Vce1DTA4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>",
> > article not posted
> > F.Y.I: A copy of the unposted message was also saved in the sent-mail 
> > folder.
> > Press SPACE to continue.
> >
> >
> > The box is home domain tcob1.net
> Your news server rejected the message.  Apparently it doesn't like the 
> Message-ID: header.  I would guess that it doesn't like the fact that there 
> is no fully-qualified domain name.  The 'home' comes straight out of your 
> system hostname.  Change your system's hostname to a fully qualified domain, 
> and it will go through.
I guessed this but maybe it would be an option to put something in the help 
section for new users who may not understand what has happened. I am about 
to replace leafnode anyway 

Sean

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