Re: Trouble sending news

In message <175b31c455.boase@...>
     Bernard Boase <b.boase@...> wrote:

> A problem here that I should have solved a long time ago (whether from
> Iyonix or ARMX6). Something in my setup of MPro/ Netfetch/ Hermes/
> NewsHound has long failed to send posts to newsgroups such as
> c.s.a.apps. (Mailing lists such as this one have no problems).
> 
> The news service is eternal-september and NewsHound correctly retrieves
> new posts from groups I subscribe to. But on using MPro to write a reply
> post, Hermes unsucessfully tries and retries to despatch the message.
> Its error file reports:
> 
> > Error: <news.eternal-september.org>: recipient address must contain a
> > domain
> 
> The post's headers (as read from MPro's Outgoing mail and news queues
> group) look like this:
> 
> > Subject: Re: [current topic] Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.apps From:
> > Bernard Boase <b.boase@...> X-Editor: EmailEdit 2.02 Path:
> > boase.myzen.co.uk%boase Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:44:38 +0100
> > Message-ID: <[whatever]> References: <[whatever]> Lines: 13
> > User-Agent: Messenger-Pro/7.08 (MsgServe/7.07) (RISC-OS/5.23) Bcc:
> > news.eternal-september.org
> 
> although that last Bcc: line is not present in MPro's Sent News group
> version of the item.
> 
> Hermes accounts dialogue has a Send news entry with apparently good
> data, but it is greyed out. Might that be significant?
> 
> Where does that Bcc: get defined? It isn't even a valid email address,
> so may be the cause of the error message. What else might be preventing
> a successful send, do you think?
> 
> Grateful for ideas of what setup details to check.

Hermes doesn't have anything to do with usenet does it? Surely that would
be a Newshound issue & configured there. I use them without Netfetch so
not sure what you're looking at.

-- 
Fred

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