Re: "Posting not allowed" / "Posten nicht erlaubt"

Michael Ludwig schrieb am 15.04.2012 um 18:24 (+0200):
> 
>   "Posten nicht erlaubt" - which means:
>   "Posting not allowed"
> 
> Some Googling has elicited that Tin *insists* on the machine running
> tin having a fully qualified domain name, apparently to use that for
> message IDs. (Mutt and Slrn do just fine without such a name, though.)

> I read that I could supply a FQDN in:
> 
> MiLu@Dago: ~ > cat /etc/tin/tin.defaults
> disable_gnksa_domain_check      = ON
> domainname                      = gmx.de
> disable_sender                  = OFF
> 
> I checked using strace that tin actually opens and reads that file.
> However, "Posting not allowed". (The other two settings I tried don't
> seem to have any effect.)

The settings appear to have failed due to a syntax error. The doc for
the /etc/tin/tin.defaults file has the following to say:

  Yet another global configuration file with "variable=value" pairs.

This appears to apply verbatim! Once I removed the whitespace from the
settings and restarted tin I was able to write postings.

I've seen various posts on the net where people had exactly this "Posten
nicht erlaubt" problem and were told to GO AND GET A HOST NAME WITH A
VALID DOMAIN AND CONFIGURE IT in an unhelpful manner, almost à la
Bastard Operator From Hell. This is misleading. Leave your hostname as
it is. You just need an entry in the config file, but be sure to get it
right because if you don't it will silently fail.

Michael