Re: Posting to gmane

Thanks Chuck and Buck. "Followup" works. So does Ctrl-R.

Sam

FWIW: I'm running on Windows Vista and Thunderbird 31.6.0 and the way I have Thunderbird set up, I can find a "Smart Reply" icon. But putting it on the menu actually cause the "Followup" icon to reply, on which are the "Followup" "Reply All" and "Reply" options. Thunderbird sometimes confuses me...

On 4/16/2015 10:03 AM, CRPence wrote:

On 16-Apr-2015 09:17 -0500, Sam_L wrote:

In Thunderbird, when I use "Write" to create a new message the
message is posted. And it ends up on Midrange.com.

To be clear, a copy of the message appears at archive.midrange.com;
that is distinct from the news.midrange.com which apparently is no
longer storing and serving new messages. Although, midrange.test
accepted a message awhile ago, when I tried to test what error message
Tb would give when I tried to post a message.

It fails if I use "Reply" on an existing post. It sets the reply
address to "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>" which fails
when I click "Send" with:

An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded:
5.5.4 Invalid Email address. Please check the message recipient
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx and try again.

Though perhaps not conspicuous, Tb has both a /smart reply/ and a
/reply/. In a newsgroup account, use /Followup/ rather than /Reply/ if
the reply-feature<>smart-reply; the "smart reply" makes the /reply/
feature context-sensitive, making reply formulate a "To:" addressee
while viewing an email message, and formulating a "Newsgroup:" addressee
while viewing a newsgroup message.

Or... and I am not familiar with the particular error [but sure seems
to be an addressee issue], but given the issue occurs only for Reply,
another possible issue lies with the reply-to email address. Both the
email address and the reply-to email address of the NNTP user must be
accepted by gmane.org as authorized. Or, the reply-to email address
should be omitted for a message submitted from the NNTP client.

Anyone know if this is a setting that I need to change In
Thunderbird?

I think the issue is the _addressee_ that is automatically composed
by Tb when using the "Reply" feature. Again, use "Followup" instead;
possibly reconfigure Tb to use the smart-reply icon on the toolbar if "I
use 'Reply' on an existing post" implies clicking an icon on the
toolbar. If instead the issue might be the reply-to address then...

In the /Account Settings/ for the newsgroup account established in Tb
for news.gmane.org there is /identity/ information for that account;
right-click->settings on the account-name [aka folder-name]. One
setting is the /Email address/ and another is the /Reply-to address/.
Either omit the latter, or ensure both addresses are the same as the
email address used for the subscription established via your
lists.midrange.com user; the reply-to email address could conceivably be
another authorized-user at gmane.org, but if not an authorized user,
surely that would cause problems according to the FAQ.

<<SNIP>>

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