[Mailman-Developers] Bug#57223: mailman: gate_news problems (fwd)

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "TW" == Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> writes:

    TW> Ok, well, because the reader attempting the 'group' command,
    TW> in cron/gate_news, isn't using authorization, we can just send
    TW> the 'mode reader' command when we get the error 500. The
    TW> attached patch should work, I think. It fixes the first call
    TW> to 'group' instead of the constructor of nntplib.NNTP, so it
    TW> should be usable with all nntplib version.

Thanks.  I'll apply this patch (with a slightly rewritten comment) to
the CVS snapshot.

-Barry