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

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Sonntag, den 15.04.2012, 13:08 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> 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 »Sending« 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?

The smtp server, which I use to send mails from my imap accounts.

> > 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

Thanks for the pointer. Yes, evolution is not for everything. There are
better newsreaders out there. When I was more active on usenet I used an
application called gnus, http://gnus.org/, with Xemacs (www.xemacs.org).

-- 
thomas