Cancel doesn't work

[Russ Allbery]

Kai Haberzettl <xemacs at khaberz.de> writes:

> I'm using INN 2.2.2 as a local newsserver. My login is different than my
> email-address. inews apparently doesn't like this when I try to cancel
> an article.

> This is what I get:

>   Article was posted by "kai at khaberz.de" and you are "khaberz at khaberz.de".
>   (Article not posted.)

> I have set 

>   verifycancels:          false

> in my inn.conf.

verifycancels only governs the behavior of innd.  inews is a separate
beast.  The version of inews that comes with INN really isn't very ideal
for use by general users; I intend to fix it at some point, but in the
meantime I recommend getting the mini-inews available at:

  <http://members.nbci.com/meowing/cssri/>

and using it instead.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>