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   Hello Tony!   
      
   Sat Jan 07 2017, Tony Comandini wrote to Gert Andersen:   
      
    GA>>  TC>anybody of you has setup NNTP and works well? According to the doc    
    GA>>  TC>I enabled   
    GA>>  TC>the option on mbsetup but unfortunately the port 119 in the system    
    GA>>  TC>still down   
    GA>>  TC>and of course can' t connect with a client.   
    GA>>    
    GA>>  TC>Any suggestion?   
    GA>>    
    GA>> MbseBBS is your NNTP and you can ask you isp for newgroup connection,    
    GA>> then in mbsebbs echos put and check nae for the messages and use some    
    GA>> extra echos where you fetch for newsgroups at your isp or some other    
    GA>> news provider. But you have too to tell mbse the info for the news    
    GA>> providers.   
    GA>>    
    GA>> The to get port 119 open for nntp check you system for service port    
    GA>> 119 is    
      
    TC>I think I made a mistake:   
    TC>following commands:   
    TC>cd ~/mbsebbs-1.0.6   
    TC>./configure [--enable-optimize] [--enable-newsgate] [--enable-gdkdel]    
    TC>make   
    TC>su important, do not use "su -"   
    TC>password: enter root password here   
    TC>make install   
    TC>exit   
    TC>Ubuntu users should do:   
    TC>cd ~/mbsebbs-1.0.6   
    TC>./configure [--enable-optimize] [--enable-newsgate] [--enable-gdkdel]   
    TC>make   
    TC>sudo make install   
    TC>Important: it seems logical to use the --enable-newsgate option but it    
    TC>isn't.   
    TC>When you do, the mbnntp program is disabled and you cannot serve    
    TC>echomail as   
    TC>news to your users via internet. But you can gate echomail to the    
    TC>internet.   
    TC>Independent of your choice, you can always make internet news available    
    TC>for   
    TC>your bbs users. Only use --enable-newsgate if you really need to gate    
    TC>echomail to the internet.   
      
    TC>Unfortunately I had just run ./configure without option and probably    
    TC>the newsgate is off...I have to recompile everything from scratch?   
      
   If you only do the default ./configure without any options is mbsebbs run to   
   could fetch newsgroup and not working as a nntp server, so you have to   
   recompile mbsebbs use option for to --enable-newsgate and it is showing how   
   and waht to do in the mbsebbs readme files.   
      
      
      
     Take care,   
               Gert   
      
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