Re: [Evolution] NNTP: How to send messages to Usenet/Newsgroup?

[Paul Menzel <paulepanter users sourceforge net>]

Am Sonntag, den 15.04.2012, 01:39 +0200 schrieb Thomas Mittelstaedt:
> Am Donnerstag, den 12.04.2012, 13:00 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:

> > is there a way to send messages to a Usenet group.
> >
> > The tab ÂSending in the account preferences only allow me to choose
> > SMTP or Sendmail. I guess that does not work with NNTP. I only have the
> > following technical details about the Usenet server [1].
> >
> >         eternal-september.org can be accessed via the following server names and ports: 
> >
> >         Client Settings
> >
> >         Server name: news.eternal-september.org
> >         Port : 119 (NNTP)
> >         Port : 563 (encrypted connection NNTPS)
> >
> >         Servername: reader80.eternal-september.org
> >         Port : 80
> >
> >         Servername: reader443.eternal-september.org
> >         Port : 443 (encrypted connection NNTPS)
> >
> > With SMTP I tried to send the message, but the following was printed to the terminal.
> >
> >         (evolution:3417): camel-CRITICAL **: camel_stream_filter_new: assertion `CAMEL_IS_STREAM 
> > (source)' failed
> >
> >         (evolution:3417): camel-CRITICAL **: camel_stream_filter_add: assertion `CAMEL_IS_STREAM_FILTER 
> > (stream)' failed
> >
> >         (evolution:3417): camel-CRITICAL **: camel_stream_write: assertion `CAMEL_IS_STREAM (stream)' 
> > failed
> >
> >         (evolution:3417): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' 
> > failed
> >
> >         (evolution:3417): camel-WARNING **: CamelNNTPFolder::append_online() reported failure without 
> > setting its GError
> >
> >         (evolution:3417): camel-WARNING **: CamelNNTPFolder::append_message_sync() reported failure 
> > without setting its GError

> > [1] http://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=techinfo
>
> Have you registered at that site? This is required according to the
> information there.

Yes, I registered at that site. (Otherwise I would not have been able to
read the news in the first place.)

> I have sparely visited Usenet lately, but I can remember having
> successfully sent messages to newsgroups on the nntp server of my
> provider. So, in the Send options of that nntp account there is smtp and
> I put in the user name and password of that smtp server.

What SMTP server?

> Have you tried other email clients like mozilla thunderbird and opera ?

Using the newsreader Pan [1] reading and posting works without problems.
So I recommend using Pan until the bugs in Evolution are fixed. Pan even
had a new release a week ago and a lot of features were added.


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://pan.rebelbase.com/
[2] http://git.gnome.org/browse/pan2/plain/ChangeLog

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