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From: Ken Murchison (no email)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2005 - 09:47:35 EST
kael wrote:
> On 24.02.2005 15:36, Ken Murchison wrote:
>
>> The newsspool option is deprecated and not needed.
>
>
> I have managed imapd.conf like this:
>
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> partition-news: /var/spool/imap/news
> altnamespace: yes
> newspeer: news-in.newsfeeds.com:119 news-out.newsfeeds.com:119
> unixhierarchysep: yes
> newsprefix: Usenet
>
>> Have you created the "Usenet.comp.mail.imap" mailbox on your "news"
>> partition (/var/spool/imap/news) and given at least the "anonymous"
>> user the "p" right? You probably want to grant your newsgroups
>> "anyone lrsp".
>
>
> localhost.localdomain> cm Usenet/comp.mail.imap
> localhost.localdomain> sam Usenet/comp.mail.imap anyone lrsp
Since you have enabled unixhierarchysep, you should create
Usenet/comp/mail/imap
This is the IMAP name of the mailbox.
> Is the 'p' right necessary ? I don't want to deliver posting access to
> Usenet.
Yes. I should probably tie this to the newsmaster option instead, but
I'd have to think about this.
>
>> Have you told your news provider to send you articles?
>
>
> Yes. The articles seem to be delivered:
>
> $ tcpdump
>
> 02:13:48.015469 IP news-out.newsfeeds.com.4435 >
> snip.fbx.proxad.net.nntp: . ack 160 win 64909
> ...
> 02:15:09.501562 IP news-out.newsfeeds.com.4435 >
> snip.fbx.proxad.net.nntp: . ack 1374 win 65163
> ...
> 02:22:37.082797 snip.fbx.proxad.net.nntp >
> news-out.newsfeeds.com.4976: P 5644:5746(102) ack 112942 win 32767
>
> And my peer's asking to let the feed out - I hope the 'newspeer' option
> in imapd.conf is enough for this purpose.
>
>> Do you have a local NNTP client that can access your Cyrus server and
>> LIST newsgroups and POST articles (you can do this with nntptest if
>> you know how to use NNTP manually)? If not, you need to fix this
>> before worrying about accepting articles from the outside.
>
>
> [root@ ]# /usr/bin/nntptest -p 119 -u cyrus
> WARNING: no hostname supplied, assuming localhost
>
> S: 200 snip.fbx.proxad.net Cyrus NNTP v2.2.10-Invoca-RPM-2.
> ...
> list newsgroups
> 215 List of newsgroups follows:
> .
>
> It seems that the server is empty.
>
> [root@ ] /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/nntpd was not successful.
>
> I'm wondering where the articles should be stored on the disk and how to
> manage rights.
>
> Thanks you very much for your help.
>
-- Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 --PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
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