Bugs item #579285, was opened at 2002-07-09 15:16 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=579285&group_id=103

Category: nntp/news Group: 2.0.x Status: Closed Resolution: Fixed Priority: 5 Submitted By: Steve Fox (drfickle) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: gate_news attempts connect to bad hosts

Initial Comment: I've been having gate_news spew out 'Connection refused' errors every five minutes for quite some time now. I finally tracked down what the problem is, and hopefully someone more skilled in Python than I can create a simple fix.

In the open_news function it doesn't check whether the mlist.nntp_host variable is valid or not (in my case it was a null string). A simple if check would solve the problem here, but I think that's addressing the symptom, not the problem.

Rather I think the real problem is that the MailList class sets gateway_to_mail to "true" (I'm not sure what the real value is), even if the nntp host name is invalid. Then the process_lists function assumes that nntp_host is valid and calls open_newsgroup on it.

I would suggest that if the nntp_host is invalid, that the MailList class not set gateway_to_mail to be "true".

Thanks!

Comment By: Steve Fox (drfickle) Date: 2002-07-24 12:05

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That sounds great. Thanks.

Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-07-24 10:45

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While I won't fix this for MM2.0, in MM2.1, you now cannot enable gatewaying unless both the nntp_host and linked_newsgroup fields are filled in. It's too expensive and annoying to do further validation (i.e. that the given host exists and accepts nntp connections, and that the newsgroup is a valid newsgroup on the host).

Comment By: Steve Fox (drfickle) Date: 2002-07-09 15:32

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I forgot to mention that gateway_to_mail seems to be set "true" anytime the mail-to-news page contains any non-default values. That is, even if hostname and newsgroup are blank, but one or more of the radio buttons are set to yes, gate_to_mail will be "true".

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