David E. Ross wrote:
> On 4/10/2017 4:44 PM, Dirk Munk wrote:
>> My news provider has its own servers for incoming and outgoing news
>> messages.
>>
>> However the server for outgoing traffic does not accept email messages.
>>
>> So if I want to send a news message ('Newsgroup:'), and I want to send
>> the same message by mail ('To:'), that doesn't work, I will get a
>> message that the email is rejected, and with that the news posting as well.
>>
>> I suppose that it will be quite difficult to fix this problem?
>>
>
> E-mail messages are sent through either an SMTP server or an IMAP
> server. Newsgroup messages are sent through an NNTP server. In
> general, message applications can send messages to only one server at a
> time. Thus, you should send your message twice, once as E-mail and once
> as a newsgroup message.
>
That seems odd. In the account settings for this news server, there is
an option to set an outgoing smtp server. And if I right click on a news
article, there is an option to reply to sender AND to newsgroup. So I
think it should work. But it didn't when I tested it.
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