No articles are seen through the news clients

[Hirantha]

Hi Jeffrey,

Thanks for the reply.

 From my basic configuration I could do only post but I dont see posted 
messages through news clients. I can see the the post is working through 
/var/log/news/news.notice:

Feb 27 16:05:44 rhel4 nnrpd[31926]: 192.168.128.230 connect
Feb 27 16:05:44 rhel4 nnrpd[31926]: 192.168.128.230 post ok 
<es11i0$v5m$1 at rhel4.informatics.lk>
Feb 27 16:05:44 rhel4 nnrpd[31926]: 192.168.128.230 posts received 1 
rejected 0
Feb 27 16:05:44 rhel4 nnrpd[31926]: 192.168.128.230 times user 0.019 
system 0.026 elapsed 0.285

and all posted messages are laying in the /var/spool/news/incoming/ 
directory:

-rw-rw-r--  1 news news  638 Feb 27 15:07 45e3fbf1PwCa7F
-rw-rw-r--  1 news news  646 Feb 27 16:05 45e40980G8NaYG
-rw-rw-r--  1 news news  629 Mar  5 10:49 45eba85erOf4h6


There is no error messages in the log files.

I have set
news:    "|/usr/lib/news/bin/mailpost -d localhost local.test"

Then posted messages are looping continually; /var/log/maillog:

Mar  5 10:56:49 rhel4 sendmail[6222]: l255QmdM006222: to=news, 
ctladdr=mail (8/12), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, 
pri=189092, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent 
(l255QmDr006224 Message accepted for delivery)
Mar  5 10:56:49 rhel4 sendmail[6213]: l255QibX006210: 
to="|/usr/lib/news/bin/mailpost -d localhost local.test", 
ctladdr=<news at rhel4.informatics.lk> (8/0), delay=00:00:04, 
xdelay=00:00:04, mailer=prog, pri=188822, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
Mar  5 10:56:49 rhel4 sendmail[6212]: l255QioA006211: 
to="|/usr/lib/news/bin/mailpost -d localhost local.test", 
ctladdr=<news at rhel4.informatics.lk> (8/0), delay=00:00:04, 
xdelay=00:00:04, mailer=prog, pri=160826, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent


Please advice, what should be the basic configuration for to post/read 
through news client such as Thunderbird

Thanks in advance

- Hirantha









Jeffrey M. Vinocur wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Hirantha Wijayawardena wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to setup INN for last couple of days, still not seeing a posted
>> article on Thunderbird/Outlook Express. I'm on Redhat ES 4 with inn-2.3.5
>> rpm installations. I am newbie to the news and INN.
> 
> I am confused about your intended configuration.  A normal basic INN 
> configuration would not require the use of mailpost at all.
> 
> Regardless, I think you should look in the news log files to see if you 
> can find an error message.
> 
>