[email protected] (W. Greenhouse) writes: > Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> writes: > >> Yes - I checked there just now and nothing was in there. In addition, I >> assume that the email would have been send via my (only) smtp account >> which is gmail, and the mail should have been in the "Send Items" - >> nothing there (checked via the web interface as well). > > Except it's not an email. It's a Usenet article. :) > > Messages to Gmane (or any NNTP server) don't travel through SMTP at all, > so it would never get the chance to show up in Gmail's Sent box. With > newsgroups, the NNTP stream is used both to send and to receive > messages. Gmail is not in the loop for this communication at > all--except when Gmane detects that a particular sender has never posted > to that group before, and sends an email to the From: address for > verification.
Makes sense - explains why they are not there. > >>>> Same as above - I do not assume that I am blocked when using gnus but >>>> not thunderbird. >>> >>> To clarify, are you posting directly to the mailing list with >>> Thunderbird, or to Gmane? >> >> via gmane on thunderbird. > > Ah, Thunderbird was using NNTP, then? Then that's especially > peculiar. Yup - it did. > >>> Being blocked from Gmane and blocked from the >>> "upstream" mailing list are not the same thing; that's completely >>> different machines, with different administrators, and potentially >>> different lists of IPs suspected of spam. >> >> Sure - two different receivers. >> >>> >>> Your description of the order of events, though, makes it sound like the >>> message was delivered to Gmane but the required confirmation email was >>> mislaid somehow. >> >> I thought the same - but I did not see any. >> >> Any suggestions how I can check this? >> >> Rainer > > I would check your NNTP configuration. Maybe rather than using the > "browse foreign groups" feature, you can set things up explicitly. > Below are some known working settings for Gmane. > > While keeping Gmail as your primary select method, try > > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods > '((nntp "news.gmane.org" > (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-tls-stream) > (nntp-port-number 563)))) > Did it, but still can't send via the newsserver. But I stick with email at the moment and will evaluate later. Thanks, Rainer > Other NNTP servers can be added later along a similar pattern. -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: [email protected] Skype: RMkrug _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
