Hi Peter!
In message <199708122047.WAA00824@Kyra.FutureGroove.de> you wrote:

> > When I try to post a news-message from tin, I get the following
> > error (approximately, I cannot read the complete message):
> > 
> > PROBLEM_WITH_YOUR_MAIL_GATEWAY_FILE
> > Read the INSTALL file again.
> 
> I posted the solution for this problem some days ago ;)
> 
> type in 
> 
> 	echo `hostname`.`domainname` > /etc/inews_mail_gateway

Yes, I found out. Thanks anyway.

> > According to the man pages tin should read the name of the
> > nntpserver from file /etc/nntpserver. But if I unset the
> > environment variable NNTPSERVER, then tin will refuse to start
> > because it cannot find NNTP-server news.tu-freiberg.de (when 
> > I am offline).
> 
> (If you are online, then it should work, doesn't it ?)

Yes, sort of. It connects to news.tu-freiberg.de and not the server
mentioned in /etc/nntpserver.

> Good question. I forgot where I got it from. This version is already a patched 
> one (colorized) and not the standard distribution.
> 
> I can mail you the ~600KB tarball.

Yes. Please mail the archive to imm@nethotel.dk.


Best regards
   Ib-Michael
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