Grant Taylor wrote:
What do you mean by "... news reader interface ..."? Are you saying
that the problem is with the news (NNTP) client that I'm using? If so,
I can say for sure that is not the case.
Internally, Mailman acts as an NNTP client to read and post the news, so
this is where I would be looking for errors and differences.
I had started a program a while back to allow Mailman to act as an NNTP
server for posting news (avoiding the NNTP client method), but that never
got anywhere.
I did check the Mailman logs. gate_news.cron.txt is empty, nor is there
any output if I run gate_news by hand (as the user that owns Mailman). I
did not see any thing in the other Mailman or system logs. Do you have
something I should be looking and / or greping for?
There should be logs in /usr/local/mailman/logs that are relevant to these
messages, especially in the log file named "usenet".
I feel like this has to do with Mailman as an news (NNTP) client not
realizing that it needs to download more messages (message counters off
/ corrupted / something) or it not being able to download messages for
some reason.
That seems plausible.
I can say that I have received an error (that for some reason did not
show up in logs) from gate_news:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 284, in ?
main()
File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 266, in main
clearcache()
File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 121, in clearcache
conn.quit()
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/nntplib.py", line 564, in quit
resp = self.shortcmd('QUIT')
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/nntplib.py", line 260, in shortcmd
return self.getresp()
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/nntplib.py", line 215, in getresp
resp = self.getline()
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/nntplib.py", line 207, in getline
if not line: raise EOFError
EOFError
Hmm. This may be unrelated, but what version of Mailman are you running?
Have you looked at updating the version of Python you've got installed? The
latest 2.4.x version should work well with the latest version of Mailman
(2.1.11), and I know there are some significant changes in the underlying
library routines.
It is possible that you may be running into bugs that have already been quashed.
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