"no body" reject from rnews

[Bill Davidsen]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I'm generating rnews input files with a program, and getting odd 
> results. The articles are more-or-less sucked from another server, then 
> embedded in an rnews file. When I feed small articles through this 
> method it works. However, when I feed 500k or so articles I get
>    rejected 437 no body
> in the logs.
> 
> I've done the obvious checks:
> - article size is well under limits
> - the article size in the "#! rnews" header are correct
> - if I use the "-r host" feature to feed to a remote host,
>    the articles are accepted!
> 
> Before I start a nasty debugging stint, does this ring a bell with anyone?
> 
> Box-stock 2.4.1 release installed, and everything else working. I 
> believe it's a bug in rnews, since a non-INN site will accept the same 
> feed just fine.
> 
Ah-ha! These are yENC posts, and contain something which makes rnews 
unhappy, no doubt. And since it isn't being rejected by other servers 
it's possible something is unique in the local feed.

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