inews post failure

Bill Tangren bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil
Tue Oct 23 13:08:03 UTC 2001


Hello,

I am using procmail to forward email that comes in from a help account on 
our web site, to a news group. It works very well, except for one problem. 
Some people are able to send email that has no Subject in the header. 
Inews rejects these posts. The rejection message I get is what you see 
below:

inews failed: Required "Subject" header is missing or empty. (Article not
posted

I have tried to duplicate this by using the generic Unix mail utility, and my posts always 
show up with a '(none)' in the subject field, so I can't reproduce this problem. However, 
some people can and it *is* a problem. 

Has anyone else seen this problem, and do they know how to fix it?

Bill Tangren



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