Role of inews

[greg andruk]

In nnfolder+Mail:inn-workers, Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Russ Allbery <rra at Stanford.EDU> writes:

>> I said that I'd look at fixing the problem with inews requiring group
>> news access to pathtmp before 2.3.1.  The way that I'm inclined to fix
>> this is by just ripping out all of the code in news that checks that the
>> groups to which the article is posting are valid, since the exact same
>> checks are done by nnrpd.  Does anyone see any reason not to do this?

The only pitfall is that it takes away inews' ability to spool should
nnrpd be unavailable.  That said, nnrpd has since been given its own
ways to deal with posting trouble, so this is much less of an issue
than it once was.  Also, in the case where inews spools, the trace
headers are bypassed, and of course you need to open up the privs to
make it work at all.  Summary: inews spooling bad.

> Note that if I rip all that stuff out, that means that inews also won't do
> the bit of adding distributions based on the server distrib.pats, nor will
> it do the mailing to moderated groups directly (instead, it will post and
> let the server does that).  This has the side effect of not printing the
> notification "article has been mailed to moderator" like inews currently
> does.

If this is really a problem, it could print the 240 response it now discards.