problem with mailpost and inews

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:26 PM, Bill Tangren wrote:

> 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.

I'm not sure why changing that line to * fixes things, but I wonder if 
your actual problem is a missing entry in incoming.conf.

(Also, that "10.1.5." in the hosts line probably should be "10.1.5.*", 
FYI.)

-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org