Ken Murchison wrote:
This works, I'm now running a shell script which fetches all the groups I want, invoking fetchnews in serial for each group.
Nils Vogels wrote:
I've been trying comma delimited group names (fetchnews -n -w "nl.test,nl.someother" news.myisp.nl) but for some reason no articles are fetched then. If I use space delimitations, only the first group works.
fetchnews(8) isn't too clear about this, I'm afraid and when I look at example wildmats in imapd.conf(5) I see comma seperated grouplists ("peer.example.com:*,!control.*,@local.*")
Your reading of fetchnews(8) is correct, but apparently this syntax is new to the NNTP update draft. Both LIST ACTIVE and the wildmat format have not been formalized up until now. I tried this against INN 2.3.4 and it doesn't support comma-separated (or space separated) wildmat patterns (which really sucks). For the time being, you'll have to use separate fetchnews commands rather than specifiying multiple wildmats in one command. For example, instead of:
fetchnews -n -w "nl.test,nl.someother" news.myisp.nl
do:
fetchnews -n -w "nl.test" news.myisp.nl fetchnews -n -w "nl.someother" news.myisp.nl
There seems to be a completion issue however using the reader mode:
I am grabbing a newsgroup (nl.internet.providers in this case) using Cyrus, and since this is only a test, I've kept my other environment, which is a mailman-2.1.3 install with nntp gatewaying, running.
They are both querying the same newsserver, however, mailman sees all the articles that Cyrus sees, and more. Cyrus does not get all the messages all the time, which, I hope, is not the way it's supposed to work ;-)
Is this a known problem ?
If this was a known problem, I would have fixed it ;)
How is mailman fetching the articles? I'd be interested in seeing the NNTP telemetry of both (run simultaneously).
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