On Thursday 11 December 2008 3:01:34 pm Jim Henderson wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:50:40 -0600, HarryB wrote: > > New Pan (v0.132) user, running under Debian 4.0 and KDE 3.5.10. > > > > I have been able to post a new message to the newsgroup > > rec.bicycles.tech and one or two replies, but additional replies fail > > because the server rejects them and returns the following error: "441 > > Posting Failed (Rejected by POST filter)" . > > > > I tried the same in 0.test and the results were the same: I could post > > at least one reply to my initial message, but subsequent replies failed. > > > > So, I booted into Windows and fired up Free Agent, my old newsreader. I > > was able to reply without a problem. So, it appears that the problem is > > with Pan and not my news server, bellsouth.net. > > > > What doesn't my news server like about Pan's replies? > > > > TIA, > > Harry > > You'll probably have to ask the provider. Most NNTP servers can apply a > script against headers and message contents and reject based on content - > only the provider can tell you why your post was rejected since they > maintain the filter. > > Jim
Hello Jim, What makes me think it is a problem with Pan is that after being unable to post the reply, I booted into Windows, fired up Free Agent and downloaded the same thread. I then replied to the same message using the same words I had originally typed into Pan. In fact, in order to make sure I used the exact same words, I made a copy of the post and pasted it into my email client in Linux and emailed it to myself. After booting into Windows I downloaded the email message and pasted the exact words I had typed in Pan into my reply from Free Agent. So, in my non-technical mind, there was absolutely no difference that my provider saw in the body of the message. The only difference that I can see is that one was sent from Pan while the other from Free Agent. Again, the bodies of the messages were almost identical, if not, identical. To see if I could replicate the problem I posted a test message to 0.test and then replied to it, and then replied to the reply, just like one normally sees in a Usenet thread. After the third reply I got a warning (from Pan, I assume, since it was almost instantaneous) which read, "There were problems with this post. Warning: The message is mostly quoted text." I deleted the quoted text and attempted to send the reply again. Once again I received the "441 Posting Failed" message. So, I again booted into Windows and downloaded the thread I had started in 0.test and tried to reply to it from Free Agent. No problems. In fact, I replied to a number of the replies without any trouble. Then I booted back into Linux and started Pan. Once again, I was unable to reply to the same messages that Free Agent was able to reply to. To summarize, there are messages to which I can reply from Free Agent which I can't reply to from Pan. I just don't understand why that would be my ISP's fault. Cheers, Harry _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
