• Re: NNTP server message-id field

    From Embalmed@21:4/166 to g00r00 on Sun Feb 23 14:29:38 2020
    On 04 Feb 2020, g00r00 said the following...

    All right, that's good to hear. Especially that you've already got a complete approach in mind. The news server can be handy on mobile.

    It'll be good to have someone to test it! I will take a look at this in A45 I don't want to start it now because its too close to A44.
    I started playing around with thunderbird and the NNTP server but i'm having all kinds of problems. The groups on SciNET subscribe, and then the next
    time i come into thunderbird they are orphaned and say the message area
    doesn't exist on the server. I wonder if this is because I havea : in the name of the SciNet areas so the groups are named scinet:.Sysops.only and such fsx areas kinda work, but i can't reply to anything i get a message like
    'Would you like to subscribe to 8023? if i say ok thunderbird crashes.

    I can at least read some of the bases in fsx, but a lot of them i can only
    see subject lines but not the messages. I think possibly these ones have / character in the name somewhere.
    chat works, cryptographic works,
    but fsxnet.BBS.Support/DEV no good.

    I'm guessing there are some forbidden characters for newsgroup names?

    |07E|10m|07b|10a|07l|10m|07e|10d |12-----------------------------------------------------
    |09Black Lodge Research BBS |11blacklodgeresearch.org:4022
    |11fsx|08Net: |0721:4/166 |11sci|08Net: |0777:1/133

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Black Lodge Research BBS (21:4/166)
  • From Netsurge@21:4/154 to Embalmed on Sun Feb 23 19:42:50 2020
    message area doesn't exist on the server. I wonder if this is because I havea : in the name of the SciNet areas so the groups are named scinet:.Sysops.only and such fsx areas kinda work, but i can't reply to anything i get a message like 'Would you like to subscribe to 8023? if
    i say ok thunderbird crashes.

    Yes. Your newgroups names in mystic must not contain spaces and apart from alphanumeric characters can only contain a '.'.

    |15frank |08// |15netsurge
    |07disksh0p|08!|07bbs |08% |07bbs.diskshop.ca |08% |07mystic goodness |11SciNet |03ftn hq |08% |07https://scinet-ftn.org

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: % disksh0p!bbs % bbs.diskshop.ca % SciNet ftn hq % (21:4/154)