Problem: submissions of articles being rejected -- sometimes

[Russ Allbery]

Lynn D Maas <maas at lanl.gov> writes:

> I am a novice at using innd, nntp, etc. and I have a problem with innd
> (or nntp?) rejecting articles after a short time and then accepting some
> and then rejecting some.  I have configured inn.conf (to the best of my
> understanding of options) to not throttle messages.

> Some background info:

> o Redhat Linux 7.3
> o inn 2.3.2
> o Using libinn.a routines to submit articles via my own program.
> o For development and testing I have all components running on the same
> computer.

> I had been running fine and had successfully submitted 80,000+ articles
> to the news server from my program.  I moved my environment to another
> computer (same software versions, config files, etc.) and now articles
> are being rejected after a short time and then only intermittently
> accepted.  I intermittantly (most times after ~50 articles) get the
> rejected article error message

> 437 EMP rejected (f/s/l)

Red Hat comes with Cleanfeed already installed, and your messages are
being rejected by one of the Cleanfeed tests (this one being over 20
messages with the same From and Subject headers and message length in a
short period of time).

If you have a server that's only used for local purposes and doesn't
handle normal Usenet newsgroups, you probably just want to uninstall
Cleanfeed entirely.  Otherwise, you'll want to add exceptions for your
local newsgroups to Cleanfeed's configuration.

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