Re: Strange problem when posting via news.gmane.org

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 02:30:33PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 02:45:43PM +0100, Urs Jan=DFen wrote:
> >=20
> > thuderbird sends a date header whereas tin does not (Date is arequire=
d
> > header, but may be left out from the client. in that case the server =
must
> > add it). Maybe that's the problem. But I guess the problem is on the
> > moderators side so the best ist to ask him what's going wrong any why=
.
> >=20
> > there is no easy way to tell tin to send the Date header on its own, =
but it
> > can be achieved via the attributes machanism (see tin(5)) with someti=
ng
> > like the following in ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/attributes (gnu-da=
te
> > assumed):
> >=20
> > scope=3Dgmane.org.clubs.dba.*
> > x_headers=3D!LC_MESSAGES=3DC date -u +"Date: %%d %%b %%Y %%T %%Z"
> >=20
> I've tried this (and the date appears at the top of my post in my
> editor) and it still doesn't work, same error.  :-(
>=20
> Thanks for all your help so far, I'll keep digging away, expect some
> more questions! =20
>=20
... and I have finally found what the interface from gmane to DBA needs,
a Content-Type: header.  I have added this to the bottom of my
attributes file:-

    x_headers=3DContent-Type: text/plain; charset=3DUTF-8; format=3Dflowe=
d

and now it seems to work OK.

--=20
Chris Green