Re: newbie mailpost woes

Hello

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 06:23:58AM -0700, Chip Mefford wrote:
> I built a simple test file.
First: complete missing headers. Message for inews should contains
at least: From, Subject and Newsgroups headers. Other headers are added
by server. There is a sugestion for put also a Message-Id, but innd
can add this header when missing.

> $ /usr/local/news/bin/inews < ~/testfile
Hmm... Read man inews, especially about -h flag and header_flags.

> $cat ~/testfile /usr/local/news/bin/inews -h
You mean:
$cat ~/testfile | /usr/local/news/bin/inews -h
?

What
grep ^server: inn.conf
prints?

Is it a correct server name?

> Warning What server? -- Article will be spooled.
> $
> hmmm. Nothing in the spool,
> logs say nothing
What /var/spool/news/incoming contains?

Regards
        Artur
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Artur R. Czechowski <arturcz@xxxxxxx>