Alan Chandler wrote:
>
>Checking the logs in /var/log/mailman/error I find this entry
>
>Aug 14 21:47:12 2005 (2418) (NNTPDirect) NNTP error for list
>"eclipse-webtools": 480 Authentication required for command
>
>Which looks as though it is not even trying to login, rather than I made a
>mistake with username or password.
>
>Do I have to do any other steps to ensure that I am properly authenticated
>for messages to the news server, as opposed to news from it?
The NNTP posting code in Mailman/Queue/NewsRunner.py is (except for
indentation level):
try:
nntp_host, nntp_port = Utils.nntpsplit(mlist.nntp_host)
conn = nntplib.NNTP(nntp_host, nntp_port,
readermode=True,
user=mm_cfg.NNTP_USERNAME,
password=mm_cfg.NNTP_PASSWORD)
conn.post(fp)
except nntplib.error_temp, e:
syslog('error',
'(NNTPDirect) NNTP error for list "%s": %s',
mlist.internal_name(), e)
except socket.error, e:
syslog('error',
'(NNTPDirect) socket error for list "%s": %s',
mlist.internal_name(), e)
The exact same nntplib.NNTP() class instantiation is used by
cron/gate_news to open a connection to the NNTP server to retrieve
messages. See http://docs.python.org/lib/module-nntplib.html for more
info on nntplib.NNTP().
If it works properly in gate_news, it seems it should work in
NewsRunner.py. You might try posting directly from an interactive
Python session using something like
>>>import nntplib
>>>f = open('path_to_file_containing_post_with_aqppropriate_headers')
>>>msg = f.read()
>>>conn = nntplib.NNTP('news.example.com', 119, readermode=True,
... user='user_name', password='password')
>>>conn.set_debuglevel(2)
>>>conn.post(msg)
>>>conn.quit()
And see if that gives more insight.
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