On Friday 12 December 2008 1:07:13 pm Jim Henderson wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:08:48 -0600, HarryB wrote: > > 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. > > It may be a header that Pan is adding, but again, you have to ask the > posting provider for the details because only they know what's in their > post filter. I've run NNTP servers on more than a few occasions, and I > can tell you definitively that the "441 Posting Failed (Rejected by POST > filter)" means that it's something being filtered by the provider - and > *only* the provider can give you more specifics. > > We could guess, but it would be nothing but a guess. Post filters on the > systems that I've worked on are perl scripts and can filter on anything > in the headers or the body of the message. There is no way to know what > specifically that provider has put in their filter without asking them or > experimenting. > > It may be as simple as they've blocked posts where the NNTP-Posting-Agent > isn't one of a set list of allowed clients, or where it excludes Pan > explicitly for some reason. Or it could be that it doesn't like the > format of the NNTP-Posting-Date header. Or under "More Headers" you > could have a header in there that they want to reject. > > I've written post filters myself, and I've excluded based on e-mail > address, posting agent, IP address range, and words in the body text. It > really can be anything. You have to ask the provider to help you > diagnose it. > > Jim
Hello Jim, I have not added anything in the "More Headers" box and have no idea what that does. But, I might try something just so that I will learn something new. I just sent a reply to Duncan detailing some of the things I tried today. Yes, maybe I will have to call my ISP to fix this problem. But, at least I will be able to discuss the problem with a lot more knowledge as a result of the information and questions I've received from this list. I'm just a computer user who really doesn't understand what is going on "under the hood", but is trying to switch over to Linux anyway. Thanks, Harry _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
