Problems sending news

[Russ Allbery]

Martin Neuditschko <yosuke.tomoe at gmx.net> writes:

> I don't have a feed for incoming posts because I use suck
> (which is working). For sending the message to the server
> I want to use rpost:
> rpost news.cis.dfn.de -M -b /var/spool/news/outgoing/news.cis.dfn.de \
>   -p /var/spool/news -f /var/lib/news/filter \$\$o=/tmp/FILTERED_MSG \
>   \$\$i /tmp/FILTERED_MSG
> but I always get an error like:
> File "@050100000005000000C70000000000000000@" not found

> I have really no idea where the mistake could be. Please help me.

Note the second-to-the-last paragraph below.

URL: <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html#S6.7>

Subject: 6.7. Use INN without a direct news feed

INN is designed to be used as a regular news server, receiving direct news
feeds from other news servers and sending news directly to other news
servers using the peer-to-peer portions of the NNTP protocol.  However,
with some additional software, it is also possible to use INN as, in
essence, a local cache for a news server that you can use to read and post
but which doesn't treat your server like a peer.

This configuration is generally called a "suck" feed, because rather than
having news fed directly to your server, you pull it down or "suck" it
from another news server, and because possibly the first and one of the
most widely used packages for doing this is named suck.

The software to pull down articles from another server and to feed
articles to another server using post rather than peer-to-peer commands
does not come with INN (INN has a few utilities to do this on a small
scale, but not really anything designed to handle a lot of groups or a lot
of articles).  You will need an external package to do this.  The two most
popular are suck and newsx, which you can get from:

    <http://www.sucknews.org/>
    <http://www.kvaleberg.com/newsx.html>

respectively.

Note that current versions of INN refer to articles internally using a
storage API token, not a path name, which is not always what suck or newsx
expects.  Read the documentation carefully; you'll need to use a script or
configuration that retrieves articles using the sm program that comes with
INN rather than trying to open files directly.

It's also worth noting that INN is a fairly complex package, and while
many people are running it successfully using this sort of configuration
and like having a full-fledged news server available to them, other people
have found INN rather complicated and difficult to configure for a small,
simple personal news cache.  If your needs and goals are simple and the
number of groups you're interested in is small, you may be better off with
a smaller, lighter package such as LeafNode or NNTPcache.

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