posting to news.mozilla.org
Lynn McGuire
message that the posted message cannot be saved in my sent folder.
Is there a way to fix this ?
I use smtp.gmail.com to send and receive all of my emails and news
group postings.
Thanks,
Lynn
David E. Ross
Gmail and its related Google Groups have become uncontrolled sources of
newsgroup spam. Many others are filtering against any newsgroup
messages originating from Gmail and Google Groups.
I suggest you create a Thunderbird account for the FREE access to
news.mozilla.org for Mozilla newsgroups. Then you should consider
subscribing to a general newsgroup provider and create a Thunderbird
account for it. See <http://www.big-8.org/wiki/News_Service_Providers>
for a list of providers.
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David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>.
Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive
bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation.
© 1997 by David E. Ross
Mike Easter
> Every time I post a message to news.mozilla.org, I get a error
> message that the posted message cannot be saved in my sent folder.
> Is there a way to fix this ?
I wonder if your Sent folder is corrupt or if you have a funky
configuration.
You should maintain all of your folders by periodically compacting them
and by the avoidance of too much storage in such a main folder.
You are Win7 Tbird 3.1.1. You can see where you have configured your
Sent folder for the moz news server by using Tools/ Account settings/ -
in the left frame find and select in the mozilla news server section
Copies and folders - then in the R frame it says 'When sending messages,
automatically place a copy in Sent folder on <menu selection>.
> I use smtp.gmail.com to send and receive all of my emails and news
> group postings.
No. You have a mozilla news account whose news server is
news.mozilla.org and you are subscribed to a newsgroup on that server,
mozilla.support.thunderbird - m.s.t
When you post a message to m.s.t, you are posting nntp to news.mozilla.org.
News is not mail, but you can do both with Tbird.
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Mike Easter
Chris Ilias
Go to Tools-->Account_Settings-->news.mozilla.org-->Copies_&_Folders, to
make sure sent messages are being copied to the folder you want.
P.S. Posting to NNTP servers does not require SMTP.
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Chris Ilias <http://ilias.ca>
List-owner: support-firefox, support-thunderbird, test-multimedia
Lynn McGuire
> want.
That was it !
> P.S. Posting to NNTP servers does not require SMTP.
OK, did not know that. Then why does TB specify an SMTP server
for the news account ?
Thanks,
Lynn
Chris Ilias
>> P.S. Posting to NNTP servers does not require SMTP.
>
> OK, did not know that. Then why does TB specify an SMTP server
> for the news account ?
In case you right-click on a newsgroup post, and select "Reply to Sender
Only" or "Reply to All".
Lynn McGuire
>>
>> OK, did not know that. Then why does TB specify an SMTP server
>> for the news account ?
>
> In case you right-click on a newsgroup post, and select "Reply to Sender Only" or "Reply to All".
Ah, that makes sense !
Thanks again for the fix. It was setup to put the sent email
to news.mozilla.org into the drafts folder. Weird.
Sincerely,
Lynn McGuire
josepe
service (gmail and other private domain accounts), and the NNTP is a
secundary account. Then, when post to NNTP, really you are outgoing
using your email smtp.
Jay Garcia
--- Original Message ---
First of all when you reply to a post please quote the original text
from the original post or at least the more relevant parts, thanks.
That is not correct. Posting to an NNTP server does not require SMTP or
any other email settings unless you are also emailing the poster as well
as posting your reply.
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*Jay Garcia - Netscape/Flock Champion*
www.ufaq.org
Netscape - Firefox - SeaMonkey - Flock - Thunderbird
John H Meyers
> why does TB specify an SMTP server for a news account ?
If you have any "To/Cc/Bcc" addresses specified when you send,
then the message will go to the SMTP server for email delivery,
as well as going to the "news" (NNTP) server for posting
(if any "Newsgroup" is/are specified).
I have some "Bcc" addresses always inserted by default, per my settings,
so every post I make also gets mailed (to me, even if not to anyone else).
If you choose "Forward" (or if you delete all "Newsgroup" header lines),
then your message will go _only_ to the SMTP (outgoing mail) server.
You can even compose new messages at any time, and then change the sending account
to a "news" account before you send. Thunderbird will always send to an NNTP server
if any "Newsgroup" has been specified, _and_ to an SMTP server if any "To/Cc/Bcc"
has been specified, provided you have defined such servers for the selected sending account.
It's possible, of course, for one of these sendings to succeed
and the other to fail, in which case it's an interesting task
for the client to see whether it can keep track of where to file the message
(Sent? Draft?) and whether it can know to re-try the failed attempt
(and only the failed attempt) at some later time.
Opera fails miserably at the above task (the last version I tried
would always fail to mail anything posted at all, and never admitted it).
Thunderbird may be better at what to do when "half succeeding, half failing,"
but I haven't encountered every combination of possible failures as yet.
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