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Hello Tony!

Sat Jan 07 2017, Tony Comandini wrote to Gert Andersen:

 GA>>  TC>anybody of you has setup NNTP and works well? According
to the doc 
 GA>>  TC>I enabled
 GA>>  TC>the option on mbsetup but unfortunately the port 119 in
the system 
 GA>>  TC>still down
 GA>>  TC>and of course can' t connect with a client.
 GA>> 
 GA>>  TC>Any suggestion?
 GA>> 
 GA>> MbseBBS is your NNTP and you can ask you isp for newgroup connection, 
 GA>> then in mbsebbs echos put and check nae for the messages and use some 
 GA>> extra echos where you fetch for newsgroups at your isp or some other 
 GA>> news provider. But you have too to tell mbse the info for the news 
 GA>> providers.
 GA>> 
 GA>> The to get port 119 open for nntp check you system for service port 
 GA>> 119 is 

 TC>I think I made a mistake:
 TC>following commands:
 TC>cd ~/mbsebbs-1.0.6
 TC>./configure [--enable-optimize] [--enable-newsgate] [--enable-gdkdel] 
 TC>make
 TC>su important, do not use "su -"
 TC>password: enter root password here
 TC>make install
 TC>exit
 TC>Ubuntu users should do:
 TC>cd ~/mbsebbs-1.0.6
 TC>./configure [--enable-optimize] [--enable-newsgate] [--enable-gdkdel]
 TC>make
 TC>sudo make install
 TC>Important: it seems logical to use the --enable-newsgate option but it 
 TC>isn't.
 TC>When you do, the mbnntp program is disabled and you cannot serve 
 TC>echomail as
 TC>news to your users via internet. But you can gate echomail to the 
 TC>internet.
 TC>Independent of your choice, you can always make internet news available 
 TC>for
 TC>your bbs users. Only use --enable-newsgate if you really need to gate 
 TC>echomail to the internet.

 TC>Unfortunately I had just run ./configure without option and probably 
 TC>the newsgate is off...I have to recompile everything from scratch?

If you only do the default ./configure without any options is mbsebbs run
to could fetch newsgroup and not working as a nntp server, so you have to
recompile mbsebbs use option for to --enable-newsgate and it is showing how
and waht to do in the mbsebbs readme files.



  Take care,
            Gert

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