Karl Lindholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:16:08 -0700:
> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" > style="font: inherit;">I have Pan setup to receive the Airline Pilots > Assn. newsfeed. I can read and post, bit cannot reply to an > existing message on the board. When I try to do so, the little > "posting" window pops up and just grinds away, never actually sending > the message. I also get an "Unknown Error" message in the event > log when I try. Any help would be > appreciated.<br></td></tr></table><br> Please can the HTML. There's a reason (security, respect for those who have plain text clients) pan doesn't do HTML. Please respect that on the pan list, even if you choose not to do it in your regular mail communications. (Of course many people don't know what they are sending... If that was you, now you do.) The problem sounds like something server-side. Note that you can run pan from a terminal window and get some additional output. There's also an undocumented --debug switch you can feed it, to get even more. Try that and see if it spits out anything useful. Of course you can also try logging the network activity (most firewalls have a log mode) if desired, to see what's actually happening on the wire, or strace or gdb pan, altho it's not likely the latter two would be a lot of help in this case. But it is certainly weird that you can post but not reply. I'm assuming there are other replies, so you know the server actually takes replies... One other thing you can try... Pan of course sets the references header for replies. That's how threading is supposed to be done (not simply by subject, regardless of the references header, as some clients do it), as the references header should contain the message-id of the parent and further upline. For testing purposes at least, you could try saving the message as draft (pan lets you tell it where), then editing the raw file using a standard text editor, to remove the references header. In theory that's the only real difference between an original post and a reply, so without that header, it should post as an original post. You can then reopen the draft in pan and send it. If it posts, then you have confirmation it's the references header. Similarly you can check the headers (IIRC by default, the "h" key toggles full header display) of existing messages and verify that they have a references header. Again, if they don't, that could well be the problem, probably due to the way the server is configured, as I said. This assumes a reasonably modern pan, 0.133 being the latest, not the old 0.14.x series, pre-rewrite. If you're still using a 0.14.x version and can't or don't want to upgrade for some reason, please mention that fact in every message so nobody gets mixed up, as it works somewhat differently. No further work is being done on the old version, but we do try to help with it still, if possible. If you /are/ using the old series, it could be a problem with the local pan.send-later and/or pan.sent directories/folders, which the newer version doesn't have (tho in that case it'd likely be all outgoing posts, not just replies). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
