And it came to pass that Daniel Hohenberger wrote: > Hi. > > From one day to the next, my Mozilla news client suddenly > stopped working. When I tried to post to a specific > newsgroup, I got the following error message: > "Sending of message failed. > The message could not be posted because connecting to the > news server failed. The server may be unavailable or is > refusing connections. Please verify that your news server > setting is correct and try again, or else contact your > network administrator." > > First, I still could post to other groups, but some hours > later, not even that works. > I know it's not a Server problem because I still can > (obviously) post with my old Netscape 4.79. > > Any Ideas? > > TIA, > Daniel > >
Probably a corrupt Summary File. Completely close the program. Find the file "<news.group.name>.msf" and delete it. When you restart and open the group, you'll need to download all the headers again and re-set preferences, but you should be able to read and post messages again. -- Netscape FAQs: http://www.ufaq.org Netscape 6/7 Tips: http://www.hmetzger.de/net6e.html Netscape 6 FAQ: http://home.adelphia.net/~sremick/ns6faq.html Netscape 7 Help/Tips: http://techaholic.net/ns7.html Web page validation: http://validator.w3.org About Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org
