[Mailman-Developers] Re: Bug#57596: mailman: Here we go again... post: nntplib.error_perm : 500 "POST" not implemented; try "help". (fwd)

[Lazarus Long]

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On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:36:41AM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
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 > Another day, another bugreport :/

Sigh.  I've gotten mail regarding this containing obscenities from
another developer.  I'd love to get this fixed rather than filing new
bug reports.  I'm sure we all would.

 > Lazarus, can you tell me if this is after you applied the last patch
 > suggested by Thomas, for gate_news ?

The only patch i aplied follows:

--- cron/gate_news.orig	Mon Feb  7 22:47:52 2000
+++ cron/gate_news	Mon Feb  7 22:53:23 2000
@@ -76,7 +76,16 @@
         # update the gate_watermarks file.  we'll actually do the gating i=
n a
         # child process
         conn =3D nntplib.NNTP(mlist.nntp_host)
-        r,c,first,last,n =3D conn.group(mlist.linked_newsgroup)
+        try:
+            r,c,first,last,n =3D conn.group(mlist.linked_newsgroup)
+        except nntplib.error_perm:
+            # We got an error 500, probably meaning that the 'group' comma=
nd
+            # is not implemented.  A likely scenario causing this is when
+            # running the Mailman gateway on the same machine as the news
+            # server; the server defaults to news feed mode.  We need to s=
et
+            # the connection to reader mode first.
+            conn.shortcmd('mode reader')
+            r,c,first,last,n =3D conn.group(mlist.linked_newsgroup)
         first =3D int(first)
         last =3D int(last)
         wm =3D watermarks.get(name, 0)

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--- cron/gate_news.orig	Mon Feb  7 22:47:52 2000
+++ cron/gate_news	Mon Feb  7 22:53:23 2000
@@ -76,7 +76,16 @@
         # update the gate_watermarks file.  we'll actually do the gating in a
         # child process
         conn = nntplib.NNTP(mlist.nntp_host)
-        r,c,first,last,n = conn.group(mlist.linked_newsgroup)
+        try:
+            r,c,first,last,n = conn.group(mlist.linked_newsgroup)
+        except nntplib.error_perm:
+            # We got an error 500, probably meaning that the 'group' command
+            # is not implemented.  A likely scenario causing this is when
+            # running the Mailman gateway on the same machine as the news
+            # server; the server defaults to news feed mode.  We need to set
+            # the connection to reader mode first.
+            conn.shortcmd('mode reader')
+            r,c,first,last,n = conn.group(mlist.linked_newsgroup)
         first = int(first)
         last = int(last)
         wm = watermarks.get(name, 0)

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