Re: Hamster and OS's

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 00:33:45 +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote:

> It runs out of the box. You might want to run Hamster as a service,
> it's possible but I don't recall the details.

Good, thanks.  I considered that I might want/have to run Hamster as a
service so it's available regardless of users logged in/out, but as I'm the
only one here, there won't *be* a lot of logging in/out going on...and when
there is, the box will be re-booting anyway, so it matters little if
Hamster shuts down when I log out <grin>!

> Yes. I didn't succeed. And I've got used to INN (takes some time indeed)
> and Postfix and I don't regret it.

I thought about using such Linux things, but I've come to rely heavily on
Korrnews to modify news and e-mail postings...adding/changing/deleting
headers, making newsgroup/mail-list specific changes, etc.  If Hamster
would run under Linux/Wine, that would be great.  But if it can't, that's
OK...I don't have a problem running Windows on a machine for it.  In fact,
that's (more or less) what I'm doing now...a Dell P-90 with 24 MB RAM
running Windows 95, whose sole purpose in life is to run Hamster as an
e-mail server (with manual trigger of news retrieval) and telephone
answering machine software!

> Not the place nor the time for a discussion about munging,

You're right, but 'munging' isn't the issue anyway.  The error message was
"invalid domain", but the address I use is every bit as "valid" as the one
you suggested.  The actual problem is that I don't use my *real* e-mail
address, as is "required" by DFN-CIS.  I had no problem giving them my real
name and e-mail address when I signed up because I was going to only pull
messages from them and had *no* intention of posting through them...there's
no way in hell I'm posting a message containing my *real* e-mail address to
Usenet!!  So, since the From: header of my post didn't contain the e-mail
address I'd signed up with, they rejected my post...which means their error
message is a little misleading.

However, there's no longer a problem anyway...whatever the 'bug' was, it's
gone now, which strongly suggests it was my setup/configuration, rather
than an actual bug in Hamster.  I added some new groups/pulls today and
made some changes to the configuration, and something I did 'fixed' the
problem...I tried posting the message to h.e.m again tonight and Hamster
posted it to Easynews just as it's supposed to.  I don't know what the
problem/fix was, but .........

I made another change that should solve part of the problem for the future
as well...I set the DFN-CIS server to 'read-only' <grin>!

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