In the Mail<->News gateways Section for my "alpha" list I clicked the box for a mass catchup. The news server is the same machine, so I entered localhost. (I'm running leafnode.)

I do see NNTP in the cron script for mailman, so I uncommented that:

root@dur:~# root@dur:~# cat /etc/cron.d/mailman | grep gate_news */5 * * * * list [ -x /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news ] && /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news root@dur:~#

How do I know the results of the mass catch up? It seems to have worked:

root@dur:~# root@dur:~# nl /var/log/mailman/fromusenet 1 Nov 19 09:40:02 2012 (3035) alpha: [2..8718] 2 Nov 19 09:40:02 2012 (3035) alpha caught up to article 8718 3 Nov 19 09:40:02 2012 (3035) alpha watermark: 8718 root@dur:~#

only I don't see any such articles actually in the list. Mails to the list (it's only me subscribed) seem to work fine.

root@dur:~# root@dur:~# nl /var/log/mailman/post 1 Nov 19 01:30:04 2012 (13366) post to alpha from alpha-request@dur.bounceme.net, size=1646, message-id=mailman.0.1353317401.13682.alpha@dur.bounceme.net, 1 failures 2 Nov 19 02:13:29 2012 (13366) post to alpha from thufir@dur.bounceme.net, size=1499, message-id=1353320001.13556.0@dur, success 3 Nov 19 02:24:18 2012 (13366) post to alpha from thufir@dur.bounceme.net, size=1850, message-id=1353320657.13556.2@dur, success 4 Nov 19 09:31:54 2012 (1413) post to alpha from thufir@dur.bounceme.net, size=1523, message-id=1353346312.2541.0@dur, success root@dur:~#

and come through fine. I can read and post to the list, but the archives are empty and the NNTP messages are in limbo.

thanks,

Thufir