At 05:55 PM 3/24/01 -0800, you wrote:
>hi,
>i have big problems in sucking newsgroups from servers like
>msnews.microsoft.com etc.:
>I just want to use dnews in the following way:
>suck different newsgroups from different servers (just "private" servers
>of software manufacturers with support newsgroups for their products) so
>that they are available for all in my network
>the articles of these newsgroups should stay "for ever" in my system, so
>that I can use them as a kind of support database
>
>So I have 2 Questions:
>
>1. i can´t get it to work: sucking from the first server works ok
>but still some mails are missing (I tried parallel with my newsreader and
>direct access to the newsgroups) but sucking from the others doesn´t work
>(I tried getgroups (and dnews got the groups) but after reading the first
>message in the group (from dnews) dnews doesn´t start to download the groups)
Your dnews.conf settings are incorrect, the list of groups to suck includes
!* on the end which sais ignore everything else
and don't get any groups from this machine. so change as follows.
nntp_suck2 news.kh-orgloesungen.de kh-orgloesungen.*
nntp_suck3 msnews.microsoft.com microsoft.*
>2. how can I realize, that the messages aren´t deleted and I get new
>messages all the time even if I don´t visit a group for a long time ?
This is controlled in expire.conf, typically I would add a pile for these
long retention groups, maybe one for each.
...
pile 4 groups microsoft.*
pile 5 groups kh-orgloesungen.*
By not specifying any limit on size the pile is automatically "keep forever"
ChrisP.
