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On 2007-11-08, slakmagik wrote:
> On Slackware, my slrn config contained
>
> set sendmail_command "/usr/local/bin/msmtp -oi -t -oem -odb"
>
> using a self-compiled msmtp. On my Debian system, this no longer worked,
> of course, because I was using a Debian package which installed to
> /usr/bin. So I modified the line accordingly and tried to post to a
> group I've now forgotten. I've just now tried to send to
> and it failed. I tested it by piping a mail message to
> myself through '/usr/bin/msmtp -oi -t -oem -odb' and it worked. My msmtp
> log shows no attempts to send anything other than the self-mailed thing,
> FWIW. Then I was able to successfully send to .
>
> The only difference I can see is that the failures were both followups
> and the post to was not. -- Actually, I just tested that and
> could followup to my own message, as well.
>
> Now I get to find out if is in the
> category or the category.

is moderated; is not. If you
posted (via NNTP) from slrn to a moderated group there will be a delay
while the moderation process takes place before you see your article in
that group or get an email from the moderator (if such emails are ever
sent to the originator of delayed, edited, or rejected, articles in that
particular group). The SMTP email settings in your .slrnrc won't effect
that as SMTP is not involved locally.

I don't think slrn can send an email other than as a 'reply' to the poster
of an article. If you do 'reply' to an article in a newsgroup then that
private email will never appear in the newsgroup, it will go only to the
poster of the article concerned.

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