[Mailman-Users] not posting to newsgroup

[Mark Sapiro]

Patrick Siglin wrote:

>Here is my error. I do have the username and password set in defaults.py and 
>also my preferred news server.


Your settings should be in mm_cfg.py, not Defaults.py. See
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.021.htp>


>Does the username and password go in "" 
>or '' ?


It doesn't matter unless ' or " appears in the value.


>What else do I need to check. Here is the error I get in the error log
>
> 441 Posting Failed (You are not allowed to post!)


Check all the settings on the list's Mail<->News gateways page
including nntp_host which is the real host - the setting of
DEFAULT_NNTP_HOST is just the default value that is put here for a new
list.

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