Am Sonntag, den 15.04.2012, 13:08 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel: > Am Sonntag, den 15.04.2012, 01:39 +0200 schrieb Thomas Mittelstaedt: > > Am Donnerstag, den 12.04.2012, 13:00 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel: > > > > is there a way to send messages to a Usenet group. > > > > > > The tab »Sending« in the account preferences only allow me to choose > > > SMTP or Sendmail. I guess that does not work with NNTP. I only have the > > > following technical details about the Usenet server [1]. > > > > > > eternal-september.org can be accessed via the following server > > > names and ports: > > > > > > Client Settings > > > > > > Server name: news.eternal-september.org > > > Port : 119 (NNTP) > > > Port : 563 (encrypted connection NNTPS) > > > > > > Servername: reader80.eternal-september.org > > > Port : 80 > > > > > > Servername: reader443.eternal-september.org > > > Port : 443 (encrypted connection NNTPS) > > > > > > With SMTP I tried to send the message, but the following was printed to > > > the terminal. > > > > > > (evolution:3417): camel-CRITICAL **: camel_stream_filter_new: > > > assertion `CAMEL_IS_STREAM (source)' failed > > > > > > (evolution:3417): camel-CRITICAL **: camel_stream_filter_add: > > > assertion `CAMEL_IS_STREAM_FILTER (stream)' failed > > > > > > (evolution:3417): camel-CRITICAL **: camel_stream_write: > > > assertion `CAMEL_IS_STREAM (stream)' failed > > > > > > (evolution:3417): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: > > > assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > > > > (evolution:3417): camel-WARNING **: > > > CamelNNTPFolder::append_online() reported failure without setting its > > > GError > > > > > > (evolution:3417): camel-WARNING **: > > > CamelNNTPFolder::append_message_sync() reported failure without setting > > > its GError > > > > [1] http://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=techinfo > > > > Have you registered at that site? This is required according to the > > information there. > > Yes, I registered at that site. (Otherwise I would not have been able to > read the news in the first place.) > > > I have sparely visited Usenet lately, but I can remember having > > successfully sent messages to newsgroups on the nntp server of my > > provider. So, in the Send options of that nntp account there is smtp and > > I put in the user name and password of that smtp server. > > What SMTP server?
The smtp server, which I use to send mails from my imap accounts. > > > Have you tried other email clients like mozilla thunderbird and opera ? > > Using the newsreader Pan [1] reading and posting works without problems. > So I recommend using Pan until the bugs in Evolution are fixed. Pan even > had a new release a week ago and a lot of features were added. > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > [1] http://pan.rebelbase.com/ > [2] http://git.gnome.org/browse/pan2/plain/ChangeLog Thanks for the pointer. Yes, evolution is not for everything. There are better newsreaders out there. When I was more active on usenet I used an application called gnus, http://gnus.org/, with Xemacs (www.xemacs.org). -- thomas _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
