Some news servers reject some posts from the mail<->news gateway

Bug #1512866 reported by Mark Sapiro
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GNU Mailman
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Medium
Mark Sapiro

Bug Description

NewsRunner, when gating a list post to usenet, will append the appropriate usenet group name to any existing Newsgroups: header in the post that doesn't already contain the name.

If the existing names in the header are a group or groups that don't exist on the gated news server, at least one server has been observed to reject the post. In some cases with the <email address hidden> list, we have seen

441 No valid newsgroups in "gmane.comp.python.general, comp.lang.python"

This would actually seem to be a bug in the news server, but I will try prepending rather than appending the group name to see if that helps.

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Mark Sapiro (msapiro) wrote :

Actually, the fix I'm testing now just deletes any pre-existing Newsgroups: header and adds one with only the gated group name. We shouldn't be posting to other groups anyway.

Mark Sapiro (msapiro)
Changed in mailman:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Mark Sapiro (msapiro)
Changed in mailman:
milestone: 2.1.21 → 2.1.21rc1
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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