On 2017-06-03 4:53 PM, Ray_Net wrote:
rickman wrote on 03-06-17 17:42:
Ray_Net wrote on 6/3/2017 11:26 AM:
[email protected] wrote on 03-06-17 15:32:
It looks like Joe has solved the problem, but just to clear up this
point... mail and newsgroup posts are not sent via the same server.
Mail
is sent to an SMTP server (and received via a POP or IMAP server).
Newsgroup posts are sent to an NNTP server (and received via the same
server). It's entirely possible to post to an NNTP (newsgroup) server
without a working SMTP (outbound mail) server.
Nice to know that. Thanks. Now I better understand why the OP was
able to
send a post and not able to send a mail.
Here to post this message to news.mozilla.org I used the SMTP server
provided by my ISP.
How is it possible to post to news.mozilla.org without using an SMTP
server ?
By definition newsgroups are accessed through the NNTP protocol which
is implemented on news servers. That is a separate means from SMTP
which is implemented on email servers.
I know newsgroups can be posted to using email clients, i.e. sending
an email because I did this when I started using newsgroups. I don't
know if you can read messages by email though. I don't know if this
requires a special email program that actually sends the message by
NNTP or if email has to be addressed to a server that converts between
SMTP and NNTP.
Is that any more clear?
Yes and no :-)
In fact, I will be interested to know HOW TO post here to
news.mozilla.org by using SeaMonkey without using any SMTP server ?
Both [email protected] and rickman have stated that
newsgroups don't use SMTP. I'm not sure why you don't believe them.
You asked how:
1. Go to a newsgroup.
2. Click "Compose".
3. Type your message, and click Send.
That's how. :)
You can test it by creating a new SeaMonkey profile, and creating a
newsgroups account for news.mozilla.org with no SMTP server, then
sending a post to mozilla.test.
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Chris Ilias <http://ilias.ca>
Newsgroup moderator
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