On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless that "server read failed" message is a red herring...
So I got interested and went investigating and I confess that I have absolutely no idea where slrn configures the server. I run a inn server on einstein - and I usually connect from einstein so I assumed perhaps it was localhost - but then I tried from dirac and, apart from having thousands of unread messages, that also works. But einstein doesn't appear in .slrnrc on either machine. So then I did an strace and grepped for einstein in every file it opened - still nothing... And yet I see this in the strace: 29838 write(1, "Connecting to host einstein.home"..., 50) = 50 So I'm at a complete loss - but by some magic, somewhere, slrn knows where to connect and I don't know how but I bet that magic file has got corrupted on your system... Tim.
