mwolf@Teknowledge.COM (Michael Wolf) (09/20/89)
I've installed B-News 2.11 and NNTP 1.5.5 on my system. Everything
works great, except when people try to post to moderated groups.
Here is an example. I composed a message to comp.sys.sun. I got
the following feed back:
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Send, abort, edit, or list? send
comp.sys.sun is moderated and may not be posted to directly.
Your article is being mailed to the moderator who will post it for you.
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Then, I get a mailer bounce which looks like this:
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From: Mailer-Daemon@alfred.Teknowledge.COM (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
To: mwolf@alfred.Teknowledge.COM
----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 comp-sys-sun... User unknown
----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <mwolf>
Received: by Teknowledge.COM (4.0/SMI-4.0)
id AA19238; Tue, 19 Sep 89 18:47:25 PDT
To: comp-sys-sun
Path: Teknowledge.COM!mwolf
From: mwolf@Teknowledge.COM (Michael Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Call-back modem vendors?
Message-Id: <219@alfred.Teknowledge.COM>
Date: 20 Sep 89 01:47:24 GMT
Reply-To: mwolf@Teknowledge.COM (Michael Wolf)
Organization: Cimflex Teknowledge Corp., Palo Alto CA
Lines: 11
[ message body deleted ]
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The line in the active file for comp.sys.sun looks like this:
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comp.sys.sun 0005608 0005576 m
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Nothing in the installation instructions said anything about creating
mail aliases for the moderated groups. Can anyone tell me
what I've done wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Michael Wolf
mwolf@Teknowledge.COM
p.s. It's a good thing this group isn't moderated, eh? ;-)karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (09/23/89)
Create a file /usr/lib/news/mailpaths which looks like this: backbone %s@nearest.site.that.maintains.the.moderated.aliases internet %s@nearest.site.that.can.address.the.internet Chances are that you can just use internet %s for the 2nd one. The code dealing with detection of moderated postings uses the mailpaths file to decide where to send such stuff. If you don't maintain such an alias file, you have to see to it that you mail things to a host that does. I believe that the periodic posting from Spaf on the creation of the mailpaths file lists the hosts to which he routinely distributes the master moderated aliases file. --Karl
bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) (09/23/89)
In article <220@alfred.Teknowledge.COM> mwolf@Teknowledge.COM (Michael Wolf) writes:
: I've installed B-News 2.11 and NNTP 1.5.5 on my system. Everything
: works great, except when people try to post to moderated groups.
:
: Nothing in the installation instructions said anything about creating
: mail aliases for the moderated groups.
Not quite. Look at the documentation for the "mailpaths" file in the
B news documents.
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Bill { uunet | novavax | ankh | sunvice } !twwells!bill
bill@twwells.comelliot@alfred.UUCP (Elliot Dierksen) (09/23/89)
In B news 2.11, mail to moderators is done by using the 'backbone' line. In
other words, if you backbone entry were:
backbone foo!bar!%s
posts to moderated groups would be mailed to foo!bar![group name] with group
name having the '.' replaced by '-'. Hope that helps!!
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