[Mailman-Developers] ToUsenet should use the new nntplib, modereader

[Jim Tittsler]

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Barry,

Posting also requires the server to be in 'mode reader' (at least our INN
does).  I think you only updated the cron/gatenews...

Jim

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--- Mailman/Handlers/ToUsenet.py.orig	Mon Feb 14 15:12:39 2000
+++ Mailman/Handlers/ToUsenet.py	Tue Mar 21 15:15:57 2000
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
 
 from Mailman.pythonlib.StringIO import StringIO
 
+# The version we have is from Python 1.5.2+ and fixes the "mode reader"
+# problem.
+from Mailman.pythonlib import nntplib
+
 
 
 def process(mlist, msg):
@@ -123,7 +127,7 @@
     # flatten the message object, stick it in a StringIO object and post
     # that resulting thing to the newsgroup
     fp = StringIO(str(msg))
-    conn = nntplib.NNTP(mlist.nntp_host)
+    conn = nntplib.NNTP(mlist.nntp_host, readermode=1)
     try:
         try:
             conn.post(fp)

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