Subj : Re: NNTP
To : Tony Comandini
From : Gert Andersen
Date : Sun Jan 08 2017 09:43 am
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Hello Tony!
Sat Jan 07 2017, Tony Comandini wrote to Gert Andersen:
GA>> TC>anybody of you has setup NNTP and works well? According to the doc
GA>> TC>I enabled
GA>> TC>the option on mbsetup but unfortunately the port 119 in the system
GA>> TC>still down
GA>> TC>and of course can' t connect with a client.
GA>>
GA>> TC>Any suggestion?
GA>>
GA>> MbseBBS is your NNTP and you can ask you isp for newgroup connection,
GA>> then in mbsebbs echos put and check nae for the messages and use some
GA>> extra echos where you fetch for newsgroups at your isp or some other
GA>> news provider. But you have too to tell mbse the info for the news
GA>> providers.
GA>>
GA>> The to get port 119 open for nntp check you system for service port
GA>> 119 is
TC>I think I made a mistake:
TC>following commands:
TC>cd ~/mbsebbs-1.0.6
TC>./configure [--enable-optimize] [--enable-newsgate] [--enable-gdkdel]
TC>make
TC>su important, do not use "su -"
TC>password: enter root password here
TC>make install
TC>exit
TC>Ubuntu users should do:
TC>cd ~/mbsebbs-1.0.6
TC>./configure [--enable-optimize] [--enable-newsgate] [--enable-gdkdel]
TC>make
TC>sudo make install
TC>Important: it seems logical to use the --enable-newsgate option but it
TC>isn't.
TC>When you do, the mbnntp program is disabled and you cannot serve
TC>echomail as
TC>news to your users via internet. But you can gate echomail to the
TC>internet.
TC>Independent of your choice, you can always make internet news available
TC>for
TC>your bbs users. Only use --enable-newsgate if you really need to gate
TC>echomail to the internet.
TC>Unfortunately I had just run ./configure without option and probably
TC>the newsgate is off...I have to recompile everything from scratch?
If you only do the default ./configure without any options is mbsebbs run to
could fetch newsgroup and not working as a nntp server, so you have to
recompile mbsebbs use option for to --enable-newsgate and it is showing how and
waht to do in the mbsebbs readme files.
Take care,
Gert
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