News client reports error after posting message to INN 1.4

[Mauro Clementi]

Chee Choon Cheng wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using INN version 1.4. When I post news using Outlook Express, OE
> always reports that an error occurred when posting to the news server.
> However, the posting actually went out OK. If I use Netscape or Free Agent
> to post a new message, no error reported. But if I use either one to reply
> to an existing news posting, the news client reported some errors again.
> This is a consistent and reproduceble problem.
>
> I did a sniff on the network and found that the news clients reported error
> because they did not receive the "240 article posted" message from the
> server before the TCP connection is closed. So the clients thought the post
> was not successful.
>
> The following is the initial greeting from the server indicating the version
> I am using:
> 200 xxx.xxx.xxx InterNetNews NNRP server INN 1.4 20-Mar-93 ready (posting
> ok).
>
> Has anyone encountered similar problems before?
>
> Chee

Hi Chee.

I have exactly the same problem using INN2.2.2 under solaris 2.7 environment and
the cnfs storageapi.
I can post what I want using netscape, but no way with outlook express.
I am just trying to sniff the session, and I think I will have the same result
you had.
I did the following checks.
1) see if my postings are really propagated to my peer (and that's it with
netscape, but I cannot post at all with OE)
2) If I try to post with OE or by a telnet session on port 119, I have the
answer
441 435 Bad Message-ID.
3) I had the same result when trying to remove the message (from every client)

At least, we have the same problem (the very same problem)
Thank you very much indeed.

Mauro