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From: Owain on 30 Nov 2008 09:15 Have just 'upgraded' the system to T'bird 2.0.0.18 and *buntu Hardy Heron. Having problems sending usenet messages. T'bird just sticks on the 'sending unsent messages'. Closing and restarting T'bird sometimes gives the message that T'bird process is still running and I need to log out and in again. Some of my messages get sent and others don't. Telnetting to the server appears okay: owain(a)owain-desktop:~$ telnet news.plus.net 119 Trying 138.199.67.64... Connected to plusnet.vsrv-ams.supernews.net. Escape character is '^]'. 200 News.GigaNews.Com Is this likely to be T'bird or the news server? Owain
From: Martin Gregorie on 30 Nov 2008 09:51 On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:15:46 +0000, Owain wrote: > Have just 'upgraded' the system to T'bird 2.0.0.18 and *buntu Hardy > Heron. > > Having problems sending usenet messages. T'bird just sticks on the > 'sending unsent messages'. Closing and restarting T'bird sometimes gives > the message that T'bird process is still running and I need to log out > and in again. > > Some of my messages get sent and others don't. > > Telnetting to the server appears okay: > > owain(a)owain-desktop:~$ telnet news.plus.net 119 Trying 138.199.67.64... > Connected to plusnet.vsrv-ams.supernews.net. Escape character is '^]'. > 200 News.GigaNews.Com > > Is this likely to be T'bird or the news server? > Not really answering your question, but I wasn't impressed with Thunderbird when I used it for Usenet. It had a tendency to 'just do' things, like suddenly deciding that it no longer had a UK dictionary but all the same refusing to re-install it. I've never liked the rigid separation it maintains between news servers and their associated list of groups: this makes it impossible to change servers without deleting and reinstating all subscribed groups. It finally did enough to really annoy me and has been replaced by Pan which suits me rather better. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |
From: Peter on 30 Nov 2008 12:57 On 30/11/08 14:15 Owain wrote: > Have just 'upgraded' the system to T'bird 2.0.0.18 and *buntu Hardy Heron. > > Having problems sending usenet messages. T'bird just sticks on the > 'sending unsent messages'. Closing and restarting T'bird sometimes gives > the message that T'bird process is still running and I need to log out > and in again. > > Some of my messages get sent and others don't. > > Telnetting to the server appears okay: > > owain(a)owain-desktop:~$ telnet news.plus.net 119 > Trying 138.199.67.64... > Connected to plusnet.vsrv-ams.supernews.net. > Escape character is '^]'. > 200 News.GigaNews.Com > > Is this likely to be T'bird or the news server? I have experienced the same problem with T'bird 2.0.0.18 using Mepis 8 beta5 (Debian clone) when I have come offline, composed a message, and then gone back online to send, both with usenet and ordinary emails. It didn't happen with previous versions of T'bird so suspect it's the upgrade's fault. In my case the cure seems to be to stay online all the time, but I'm still watching it! Peter
From: Owain on 30 Nov 2008 19:37 Peter wrote: > I have experienced the same problem with T'bird 2.0.0.18 using Mepis 8 > beta5 (Debian clone) when I have come offline, composed a message, and > then gone back online to send, both with usenet and ordinary emails. It > didn't happen with previous versions of T'bird so suspect it's the > upgrade's fault. In my case the cure seems to be to stay online all the > time, but I'm still watching it! It only happens with usenet with me. Ordinary emails seem to work fine. Owain
From: Will Kemp on 1 Dec 2008 13:35
Owain wrote: > Have just 'upgraded' the system to T'bird 2.0.0.18 and *buntu Hardy Heron. > > Having problems sending usenet messages. T'bird just sticks on the > 'sending unsent messages'. Closing and restarting T'bird sometimes gives > the message that T'bird process is still running and I need to log out > and in again. > > Some of my messages get sent and others don't. > > Telnetting to the server appears okay: > > owain(a)owain-desktop:~$ telnet news.plus.net 119 > Trying 138.199.67.64... > Connected to plusnet.vsrv-ams.supernews.net. > Escape character is '^]'. > 200 News.GigaNews.Com > > Is this likely to be T'bird or the news server? I'm using thunderbird 2.0.0.18 and i haven't had any problems. -- http://novemberechoromeodelta.com |