[Mailman-Developers] mail/news gateway

[Gergely Madarasz]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

>     GM> I've fixed now the MODE reader problems in the debian package
>     GM> of mailman (using the cvs nntplib.py in Mailman/pythonlib)...
>     GM> And now I was wondering... what happens if the newserver does
>     GM> not accept connections when mailman wants to gateway a post
>     GM> from mail to news... is there a queueing mechanism for nntp
>     GM> just like there is for smtp in case the MTA is down ?
> 
> Nope.

Ahm... perhaps the queue should be expanded to handle the NNTP case too
then ? :) We don't want mails get lost on their way to newsgroups... :)

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