Please don't hijack threads. Unless you know how to avoid that, that means it is *rude* to reply to an unrelated message, *especially* if you change the subject. In a threading MUA, it will appear that the original message has already been answered, and their problem may get no attention.

Please check out the original message entitled "News Groups (local) mirrored with mailinglists". (Unfortunately I can't do more than redirect attention to it.)

David Hláik wrote:

Hi, i want to know - how synchronization mailinglist <----> news works .

I can set a name of a news group for mailinglist in mailman. Is it all that is necessary to do? I do understand one way - from mailman to news server, but what about the other side? How can i achieve it? Hope it is understable ...

You set the list attribute gateway_to_mail to Yes, and mailman's gate_news cron which runs every 5 minutes by default polls the newsgroup for new posts.

Mailman + INN

My next question talks about INN f and pam authentification (pam ldap). Am i able to configure access to particular groups for particular users? (like user joe will have acces to com.disc and com.dad , and user ivan will have access only to com.disc ) ?

I'm not sure what you're asking, but there are no user level controls on either direction in Mailman. If you gate mail to news, all list posts, regardless of poster, go to the newsgroup, and in the other direction, all newsgroup posts go to the list.

Par Leijonhufvud wrote:

I'm trying to set up the news gateway. But it only appears to work one way; from the mailinglist to the (local) newsserver. Any idea where the problem may lie?

Check Mailman's crontab (crontab -l -u mailman) to be sure the gate_news entry is not commented or removed.

# Every 5 mins, try to gate news to mail. You can comment this one out # if you don't want to allow gating, or don't have any going on right now, # or want to exclusively use a callback strategy instead of polling. 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/bin/python -S /cygdrive/f/test-mailman/cron/gate_news

Par Leijonhufvud wrote:

Nope, that is there and uncommented. Nor does it make a diffeence when run manually. I have localhost allowed as per default in INNs readers.conf, and then some special bits to control access to different groups for different users. But the fact that it woerks one way is confusing me; it should work both ways or none AFAICT (INN newbie though).

You might try doing a 'mass_catchup'. If somehow the list's usenet_watermark is too high, this will reset it.

It sounds like you shouldn't need to set NNTP_USERNAME or NNTP_PASSWORD in mm_cfg.py, but there may be an issue there. Have you looked in Mailman's fromusenet log for any clues?

Par Leijonhufvud wrote:

Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net [2008.03.27] wrote:

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You might try doing a 'mass_catchup'. If somehow the list's usenet_watermark is too high, this will reset it.

Is there a way to do this from the command line? I don't have the list admin password...

You could use the site password (set with bin/mmsitepass) to access the GUI, or you could use withlist as in

[mark@sbh16 mailman]$ bin/withlist -l mailman Loading list mailman (locked) The variable `m' is the mailman MailList instance

...

...

m.usenet_watermark = None m.Save()

Unlocking (but not saving) list: mailman Finalizing [mark@sbh16 mailman]$

using your own list name instead of 'mailman'. Note that the apparent empty entry following m.Save() is actually control-D (^D - end of file) to exit withlist.