Re: [Noffle-users] 1.1.4: problems marking newsgroups for fetching

[Mirko L. <mir...@we...>]

Miernik wrote:
> When I want to add a group to fetch list using a newsreader (I use 
> slrn), it doesn't work: when I tap <Enter> on a new newsgroup I just 
> get a message that there are no articles in this newsgroup.

0. Have you tried "telnet localhost nntp"? Did you see noffle's welcome
message "200 NNTP server NOFFLE 1.1.4"?

> The only way I can mark a newsgroup is noffle -t group.name
> 
> I use noffle 1.1.4-7 from Debian. 

1. AFAIK, the Debian package doesn't use /etc/noffle.conf but
/etc/noffle/conf instead. Have you edited the right config file?

2. What's the value of "auto-unsubscribe-days", by the way?

3. In online mode, automatic subscription won't work and dummy messages
won't be created. That's a feature, not a bug. When you type 
"noffle --offline", do you get the reply "NOFFLE is already offline" or
just "NOFFLE is now offline"?
 
> Before when I used version 1.1.2 it worked correctly. Well, it was not 
> very correct too: I only saw the NOFFLE dummy message in a new 
> newsgroup the next day after I subscribed that newsgroup in slrn. Now 
> I never get the NOFFLE dummy article.

4. SLRN comes with it's own simple server SLRNPULL. Do you use noffle
and SLRNPULL at the same time?

5. Have you by accident deleted noffle's spool when you where updating?
If you did, does SLRN still use its old $HOME/.jnewsrc file with
presumably wrong article numbers?


Mirko