Re: Problem posting with trn

2001-08-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:13:40PM -0500, Jor-el wrote: > On this theory that this was a bug, I did dpkg --purge of all news > and trn related stuff I installed, and then installed inewsinn first > before installing trn. Lo and behold, things started to work right > away. Even then there were

Re: Problem posting with trn

2001-08-15 Thread Jor-el
Colin, Thanks for the reply (again). I discovered that the NNTPSERVER variable was NOT being honoured (what a relief to be able to use the British spelling of 'honour' again!). In fact, even though pretty much everything you said matched the docs, the programs were refusing to cooperate.

Re: Problem posting with trn

2001-08-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:10:12AM -0500, Jor-el wrote: > Your article's newsgroup: > test[no description available] > > Check spelling, Send, Abort, Edit, or List? s > No such newsgroups as "test". > (Article not posted.) > > Check spelling, Send, Abort, Edit, or List? > >

Re: Problem posting with trn

2001-08-14 Thread Jor-el
Hi, Well, I installed inewsinn, and here are the results : Subject: Test 9 from outer space Distribution: (leaving cbreak mode; cwd=/home/devel/pgmr) This program may post news to many machines. Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny] y Prepared file to include [none]:

Re: Problem posting with trn

2001-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 02:08:12AM -0500, Jor-el wrote: > I am experimenting with trn, and am posting to the > "test" newsgroup. The following env. variables are set : AUTHORCOPY points > to my pine "sent-mail" folder, and REPLYTO is set to my email > address. Here is a screenshot of my post

Problem posting with trn

2001-08-14 Thread Jor-el
Hi, I am experimenting with trn, and am posting to the "test" newsgroup. The following env. variables are set : AUTHORCOPY points to my pine "sent-mail" folder, and REPLYTO is set to my email address. Here is a screenshot of my post attempt : == 0 unread articles in test -- read now