To pull from or post to news groups, you don't use either POP3 or SMTP.
You use whatever your ISP says is the proper "news" address. Sometimes
that is just news.ispname.here or sometimes it is a "rental" news
server. Sometimes with the "rental" servers you also have to transmit a
valid username & password [not yours, your ISP's].
If you are trying to send posts to ngs via SMTP you *will* get a lockup
cuz it can't be done that way! <G>
As to getting old messages with the new from an ng, it is up to YOU [if
not done automatically like NetTamer does it] to tell the ng server LIST
2345- iow, YOU have to be the one to tell the server what messages
you want. If you dig into the NetTamer docs & stuff, it can give you a
decent idea of how to get a "list" starting with a specific number, or a
"list" of just the subject lines & message numbers, etc etc etc. The
news server doesn't know you from Adam, so you have to be the boss.
l.d.
====
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 22:09:06 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:25:47 +0100 (CET), (Richard Menedetter) wrote:
>> Hi
>> "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> SH> Also with PC-PINE, I can view newsgroup posts but cannot reply to a
>> SH> post or send a post.
>> SH> I believe PC-PINE is supposed to be capable of sending posts as well
>> SH> as retrieving them. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Sending posts
>> SH> and replying to posts in newsgroups doesn't work for me.
>> What is the problem ??
>> I can post to newsgroups without any problem ...
>> the only problem I have, is that it exits, if the newsgrouplist is too
>> large to fit in memory.
> Here is my description of the problem:
> When I attempt to compose a note to post to a newsgroup, or if I should
> attempt to forward a post, or reply to a post, a message will appear at
> the bottom of my screen saying "Validating Newsgroups". Usually the
> computer is locked up at this point and I have to do a cold re-boot.
> Sometimes an error message is returned saying that no smtp server has been
> identified for posting to newsgroups. I can find nowhere in my setup file
> any place where a separate entry for the smtp server is required for
> posting to newsgroups.
> Here is another problem: Whenever I access a newsgroup, all of the old
> messages that I've already read are also displayed. I try to exclude
> the old messages, but that doesn't happen. Whenever I do a news run I
> will get all the new postings plus all the old ones. I don't know what
> I'm doing wrong.
> Using PC-PINE for sending and retrieving ordinary email messages works
> just fine for me. The problem is that I cannot post to a newsgroup and
> another problem is that it always gets the same old stuff every time it
> does a news retrieval.
> Sam Heywood
> -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
-- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
