Problems making local postings to inn2

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Jeffery,

> I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 16.10 to 17.04 and have been having many
> problems making local postings to the news system.  There was likely
> an upgrade of inn2 to version 2.6.1-1 at this time.
>
> For years I've been using the mailagent(1) program to filter various incoming
> emails into the news service and posting still works in general, but I am now
> seeing a LOT of the following new messages in my mailer log file:
>
>     inews: cannot send article to server: 441 Invalid syntax encountered \
>     in headers (unexpected byte, no colon-space, or empty content line)
>     inews: article not posted

INN 2.6.1 enforced more syntax checks on header fields at injection 
time, that is to say when a posting agent tries to inject an article in 
the news service.  The intent is to prevent malformed articles from 
reaching the news service.
I see that you quote an error from inews, an injecting agent that 
connects to nnrpd to POST articles.  Couldn't you try to use rnews 
instead?  rnews uses IHAVE to submit articles to innd, which performs 
less checks (as articles are considered already injected into the news 
service, and therefore should go on being propagated).


> I can find no instances of:
>
>     * A header that does not have a "Name:<space>" format
>     * A header with an empty field after the :<space>
>     * Any odd characters: e.g., no non-ascii-7 characters

As Russ noted, odd characters are non-printable ones (and not non-ASCII 
chars).  8-bit printable chars are perfectly allowed (INN for instance 
copes with UTF-8 or latin1 encodings).

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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