[Mailman-Developers] Bug#57223: mailman: gate_news problems (fwd)

[Gergely Madarasz]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Thomas Wouters wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 04:57:37PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Thomas Wouters wrote:
> 
> > > send a patch to the python-patches list. In the mean time you can apply the
> > > patch mentioned in that posting, to your own copy of nntplib, as long as you
> > > dont use nntplib in server mode anywhere (Not very likely, that last part)
> 
> > That is for the reporter of the problem... But I need to make a fix in the
> > mailman .deb package for debian potato before potato is released... :)
> 
> Ok, well, because the reader attempting the 'group' command, in
> cron/gate_news, isn't using authorization, we can just send the 'mode
> reader' command when we get the error 500. The attached patch should work, I
> think. It fixes the first call to 'group' instead of the constructor of
> nntplib.NNTP, so it should be usable with all nntplib version.

Thanks.
Lazarus, please test this patch, and notify me if it worked for you :)

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