Hi I'm not a list subscriber, so if these problems have been already addressed I apologize. Of course, I apologize also for my english :-) I downloaded and installed mailman 2.0b on a Sun UltraSPARC 1, running Solaris 7. I installed python 1.5.2 using a pre-compiled package from Solaris-Freeware (ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/solaris-freeware/sparc/7/python-1.5.2-sol7-sparc-local.gz). I set up the test list, with a bidirectional gateway with our news server. Neither mail->news nor news->mail worked. About the mail->news problem, I found these errors in the ~mailman/logs/error file: Mar 24 17:55:24 2000 post(18572): starting post(18574): Traceback (innermost last): post(18574): File "/home/mailman/scripts/post", line 86, in ? post(18574): main() post(18574): File "/home/mailman/scripts/post", line 62, in main post(18574): mlist.Post(msg) post(18574): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1293, in Post post(18574): Mailman.Handlers.HandlerAPI.DeliverToList(self, msg) post(18574): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 55, in DeliverToList post(18574): func(mlist, msg) post(18574): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToUsenet.py", line 52, in process post(18574): do_child(mlist, msg) post(18574): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToUsenet.py", line 130, in do_child post(18574): conn = nntplib.NNTP(mlist.nntp_host, readermode=1) post(18574): TypeError : unexpected keyword argument: readermode Mar 24 17:55:27 2000 post(18572): ending What I did: $ diff ToUsenet.py ToUsenet.py.bak 130c130 < conn = nntplib.NNTP(mlist.nntp_host) ---

conn = nntplib.NNTP(mlist.nntp_host, readermode=1)

...and it worked. If I'm doing something absurd, please keep in mind I'm not a Python-er, so did what I could :-) About the news->mail problem, no error was shown. Reading the docs of gate_news, I realized that the program didn't create the watermark file. I tried to force the creation modifying the script and launching gate_news test 0 7 but nothing happened. I corrected the error using an older version of gate_news (1.1). It didn't gate the news again, but it created the watermark file. After that, gate_news worked. I hope it helps. Ciao Marco PS: If you need more info, feel free to contact me at my e-mail address. Don't post questions on the list since I'm not a subscriber. Thank you. -- ____ ____ ____ _ _ / ___)| __ \/ ___)/ /| | Marco Marongiu <bronto@crs4.it> | (___ | /\___ \\__ | Computers & Network Group \____)|_|\_\(____/ |_| Phone: +39 070 2796 336