Holger Metzger wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wednesday 12
December 2001 07:20 in netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news:
> Am 11.12.2001 22:33 schrieb David List:
>
>> Setting up localhost as the newsserver, I only get a message about the
>> server refusing the connection, when trying to subscribe to newsgroups. I
>> have KNode set as my newsreader now, and this program gets newsgroups and
>> newsmessages just fine from localhost.
>
>
> Leafnode?
> Check whether the configuration file (config) has the right owner. Try
> "chmod news *".
Which would be the right owner? Right now it is user root, group news. It
seems to me that you have gotten the impression that the fetching of news
with leafnode doesn't work. It does. It is only Mozilla that cannot connect
to localhost. Other newsreaders connect to localhost just fine, among them
KNode, which I use now.
>
>> Why can't the newsreader connect to localhost?
>> Which settings should I use to get mail from localhost from
>> /var/spool/mail/[username]?
>
> You have to use movemail. IIRC has no GUI option for that. Check your
> prefs.js file in ./mozilla/... and change the server type to movemail,
> for example:
> user_pref("mail.server.server1.type", "movemail");
>
> Also, IIRC creates a locking file in /var/spoool/mail - so therefore it
> needs rw rights in that directory:
I'll give it a try. Thank you for your answer.
--
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
David List
