Ken Murchison wrote:
Florian Hars wrote:
Ken Murchison wrote:
Why not just have the newsserver feed directly to Cyrus?
Things aren't what they used to be. Typical providers will offer their clients NNRP access with NEWNEWS disabled (if they offer news at all), there is no talk of "feeding".
Trying to get suck <url:ttp://home.comcast.net/~bobyetman/index.html> to cooperate with cyrus would probably be easier that reimplementing suck within cyrus.
At first glance, I think suck will work just fine. You'll have to create the sucknewsrc file manually, since Cyrus doesn't use the typical files used by news servers (active, etc).
I've got suck working. I'm currently filling my news partition using:
suck news.provider.goes.here -a -A -bp -c -hl localhost -dd . -dm . -dt . -p .provider -i 0, which will probably end up as a Cyrus event.
However, lmtp2nntp is now giving me authentication quirks, when trying to email-reply on a message sent to the box.
Postfix is taking the message just find, and handing it over to lmtp2nntp, which errors out on the authentication prompt, coming from the Cyrus nntpd.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. 554-5.4.2 destination#0 localhost returned NNTP: cannot deliver message 554 5.4.2 destination#0 localhost lastresp "480 Authentication required" (in reply to end of DATA command
Now, I see two possible solutions:
1) Tell Cyrus NNTPD not to force authentication for localhost
allowanonymouslogin: yes
Not recommended unless you already have a need/use for anonymous.
2) Tell lmtp2nntp to authenticate to Cyrus.
Not an option AFAIK.
2a) Tell lmtp2nntp to use its "feed" mode, per the note in doc/install-netnews.html in the Cyrus docs.
This is what I recommend and what I use myself. Since I don't use Postfix, I can't tell you exactly how to confifure it, but for Sendmail, its as simple as setting a mailer option.
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