questions about gate_news
Hey ho, I'm new at this list, and I've a few questions about gate_news. It isn't working very well, so some posts to the group aren't fetched and some mails aren't posted. Can the problem be that the newsserver is connected only per ISDN and so the connection is very slow? So that sometimes the newsserver gives a timeout? Is this a known bug in gate_news, or is it a problem of my configuration? Im using mailman 2.0.7 self-compiled on a debian system. I've heard that gate_news is only a hack, so that it's not really good. Is this true? Is it better in later versions? And: Have all mailman-programs to be written in python? If not, I could try to rewrite gate_news in c? With a config-file where changes are written to? Out of it all, isn't c faster than python?
Bye and thanks Jonas
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote:
Hey ho, I'm new at this list, and I've a few questions about gate_news. It isn't working very well, so some posts to the group aren't fetched and some mails aren't posted. Can the problem be that the newsserver is connected only per ISDN and so the connection is very slow? So that sometimes the newsserver gives a timeout? Is this a known bug in gate_news, or is it a problem of my configuration? Im using mailman 2.0.7 self-compiled on a debian system. I've heard that gate_news is only a hack, so that it's not really good. Is this true? Is it better in later versions? And: Have all mailman-programs to be written in python? If not, I could try to rewrite gate_news in c? With a config-file where changes are written to? Out of it all, isn't c faster than python?
I'm not sure if this is a true bug or not but I wanted to report that gate_news in 2.0.7 works for me. (tm) In my case the innd server is located on the same box as the smtp server so there is no delays in handling connections between mailman and the inn server.
I'm not sure I see the point of using an external C program as part of the Mailman package. If you're going to do that why not just disable the Mailman gate_news functions and use one of the many available mail2news/news2mail gateway scripts out there?
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:16:14PM -0500, Scott Russell wrote:
I'm not sure if this is a true bug or not but I wanted to report that gate_news in 2.0.7 works for me. (tm) In my case the innd server is located on the same box as the smtp server so there is no delays in handling connections between mailman and the inn server.
I think the problem is that no newsserver really allows all connects allways. With this problem gate_news can't handle.
I'm not sure I see the point of using an external C program as part of the Mailman package. If you're going to do that why not just disable the Mailman gate_news functions and use one of the many available mail2news/news2mail gateway scripts out there?
Mh, but for the future it's easier and better when mailman has a real gate_news function, he? Like majordomo? So, I allways could try to write it in python, but normal I prefer c, because it's faster. ;)
Bye Jonas
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