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[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Hirantha wrote:

> Feb 27 16:05:44 rhel4 nnrpd[31926]: 192.168.128.230 post ok 
> <es11i0$v5m$1 at rhel4.informatics.lk>
> 
> and all posted messages are laying in the /var/spool/news/incoming/ 
> directory:
> 
> -rw-rw-r--  1 news news  638 Feb 27 15:07 45e3fbf1PwCa7F
> -rw-rw-r--  1 news news  646 Feb 27 16:05 45e40980G8NaYG
> -rw-rw-r--  1 news news  629 Mar  5 10:49 45eba85erOf4h6

Okay, this is definitely a problem.  You should forget about all of the 
mailpost stuff for now and try to get simple posting to work first.

A couple random ideas...

What is "spoolfirst" in inn.conf set to?

Is there definitely an innd running at the time you make these posts?


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org