Hi Frans,
Since February I've been using inn2 in combination with a mail2news
script (also used by Steve McIntyre) to follow several Debian lists
and the linux kernel mailing list.
Where is it possible to download that script?
In that period I've seen a fairly high number of rejects by inn2, most of
which most fall into three categories (first column is nr. of rejects):
161 437 Too long line in header
26 437 Missing "Date" header
14 437 Duplicate "Control" header
I have just looked at three samples in your rejected articles.
err.20080303190042302:ihave a -> 437 Too long line in header 2534 bytes ? at
/home/mail2news/bin/mlist-backend line 156, <S> line 111.
but I do not see too long lines in this article. Lines delimiters are LF here
and perhaps your script is concatenating headers (especially References:).
err.2008021500560525143:ihave a -> 437 Missing "Date" header ? at
/home/mail2news/bin/mlist-backend line 156, <S> line 5.
I read in this article:
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:04:04 -0400
err.2008021500561125157:ihave a -> 437 Duplicate "Control" header ? at
/home/mail2news/bin/mlist-backend line 156, <S> line 9.
but in the corresponding article, I do not see *any* Control: header...
Everything is correctly handled by INN. What would be interesting to have
is the accurate articles which the script you use sends to INN.
For the second and third category I'm not sure whether they are actual
errors in the messages or that inn2 is being too strict.
RFC 1036 (Standard for USENET Messages):
Certain headers are required, and certain other headers are
optional. Any unrecognized headers are allowed, and will be passed
through unchanged. The required header lines are "From", "Date",
"Newsgroups", "Subject", "Message-ID", and "Path".
But I do not know regarding duplicate Control: headers, though it seems weird
to have such duplicate headers.
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Julien ÉLIE
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