problem with mailpost and inews

[Bill Tangren]

Bill Tangren wrote:
> I am using mailpost to post to a local newsgroup. On my new server, this 
> doesn't work. This is the error I get when I try:
> 
> inews failed: inews: warning: 502 You have no permission to talk. 
> Goodbye. inews: article will be spooled
> 
> I though the problem might be that newsfeeds didn't have the proper ME 
> settings, but they are the same as on the old server:
> 
> # Empty default subscription list, reject all incoming articles with a
> # distribution of "local" or "collabra-internal," accept all others.
> #ME:!*/!local,!collabra-internal::
> ME:!collabra-internal::
> 
> Can anyone tell me what might be causing this error?
> 
> Bill Tangren
> 

Further information:

This is what is in my readers.conf:

auth inside {
         hosts: "localhost, *.usno.navy.mil, usno.navy.mil, 10.1.5."
         default: "<AADEPT>"
}

access ALL {
         newsgroups: *,!junk,!control,!control.*,!usno.aa.test
}

The hosts line is the problem. Right now, anyone in the listed domains 
can post to the newsgroups using a newsgroup *client*, but mailpost 
won't work. If I change hosts to

hosts: "*"

then mailpost works, but then anyone can post to these groups, which is 
unacceptable. If I put anything else in the quotes, mailpost doesn't work.

When I send an email to the account that uses mailpost, 
/var/log/news/news.notice says:

Sep  1 16:13:54 aa nnrpd[17428]: aa (10.1.5.93) connect
Sep  1 16:13:54 aa nnrpd[17428]: aa no_permission
Sep  1 16:13:54 aa nnrpd[17428]: aa times user 0.003 system 0.001 idle 
0.000 elapsed 0.001
Sep  1 16:13:54 aa nnrpd[17428]: aa time 1 nntpwrite 0(1)

I tried to look up "no_permission" on the MARC archive 
(http://marc.10east.com/?l=inn-workers) but the search engine won't 
accept "no_permission". It keeps changing it to "permission".

Anyway, I am running 2.4.1 compiled from sources, using mailpost was 
working on the old server, running the identical OS.