Re: blocking cancels

[NetWin Support]

dnews@netwinsite.com wrote:

"NetWin Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

dnews@netwinsite.com wrote:

That's odd,
Which setting are you using (include your entire dnews.conf if

possible),

and how do you know the messages in question existed ?

The msg's are in the newsgroups when I get them into my reader.
When I refresh the group, the postings are gone, so the msg's are

cancelled.

I check this on the server and in the control.cancel-group.
The cmsg cancel <msg-id> are in the control-group of the server.
Now I use rules in me.rul to filter the control-msg's (see other posting

in

this threat) and this works fine.

I have use this in dnews.conf..
<>
cancel_users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cancel_verify_host true
cancel_anyone false
</>
And the other settings like cancel_disable and cancel_reject, but both

rules

seems only to work for local users.

Is it possible the items are just expiring for some other reason.

No, the expire runs at night at 3 local time GMT.

Send me the out put of
tellnews status
you should see a line:
Cancel %d, ReadDel %d, Killitem %d, Ndel %d
The cancel figure should  be zero if cancel_disable or cancel_reject is

true

I don't use any of the settings in dnews anymore, becourse I get the idea it
don't work.

Well, put them into dnews.conf, restart dnews, and send me a status and the 
matching dnews.conf
a day later and then we'll see if the cancel figure is zero or not.

I'm betting it will be zero and no cancels will have been actioned, but I
guess I could be wrong.  I just can't see how any cancels could occur
with that setting in place.

        ChrisP.

It will only block the cancelusers (cancel_users [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Without the rules belowe of me.rul, the cancels are muts more.
See threat *cancel-users* Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

<stats>
Cancel 88107, ReadDel 0, Killitem 0, Ndel 0
</>

<me.rul>
$allaow_cancel= [EMAIL PROTECTED]

if (rexp("Control","^\s*cancel")) setflag("iscancel")
if (rexp("Subject","^\s*cmsg\s*cancel")) setflag("iscancel")

if (isflag("iscancel")) then
       if(!matchone("X-Cancelled-By",$allow_cancel)) reject "no cancel from
newsmaster"
end if
</>

With this rules
<stats>
Cancel 12213, ReadDel 0, Killitem 0, Ndel 0
</>

This cancels (12213) will be done without a proper cancelheader.