Re: Can't post to a foreign server

[Burkhard Perkens-Golomb]

On 1 Jul 2004, Kai Grossjohann wrote:

> Burkhard Perkens-Golomb <burkhard.perkens-golomb.NOSP@M.web.de>
> writes:
>
>> I open a new posting buffer, in the header "Newsgroup:" i write
>> (with completion) "nntp+foreign.server:foreign.group" and press C-c
>> C-c. Gnus doesn't recognize the foreign server but tries to send
>> the posting to the primary server. So I get the message:
>
> Please write (sans completion, I'm afraid) "Newsgroup:
> foreign.group" and then use C-u C-c C-c to send the article.

Unfortunately this doesn't work either.

C-u C-c C-c still tries to post via the primary server. But C-0 C-c
C-c asks for a posting method: I can say (with completion)
"foreign.server (nntp)" but then I get

,----
| Sending news via foreign.server using nntp...
| 441 posting failed 
| Couldn't send message via news: 441 posting failed 
`----

The old thread I found at google suggests that Gnus understands
"nntp+foreign.server:foreign.group" in the field "Newsgroup:". But I
don't know enough lisp to see where the function "gnus-post-method" is
called to look *how* it is called (there's a variable
"gnus-post-method" too; that doesn't make live easier for a lisp
novice).

Thanks for all tips anyway!

       Burkhard