Mozilla Newsreader problem

Joe josephj at main.nc.us
Tue Sep 28 17:53:15 EDT 2004 

I'm just getting back to this one.  I'm now using Mozilla 1.7 .

I have made a little progress.

The last thing I tried was to unsubscribe to everything and then go into 
my user's Mozilla  directory and totally whack the News subdirectory.
After I did that, I created a new news account in Mozilla and joined a 
group.

Now, when I left click on the group (alt.binaries.tv.x-files) and select 
Get Messages for account, I see 478 unread and 978 total, but nothing 
appears in the messages pane where I would normally click to view the 
messages.

Next, if I right click on the News account again, the 478 and 978 
disappear.  Doing The left click and Get ... gets them back again, but 
still nothing in the message pane for me to access the actual messages.

What settings would affect this?

I have Mozilla set to:
Ask me before downloading more than 500 messages
Under Offline and Disk Space, I have nothing selected under "To save 
disk space" and Keep All messages is selected.
Under SMTP, I have use user name and password selected and selected no 
for use secure connection.

In my home (/home/bigbird) directory .mozilla is 755 bigbird bigbird
.mozilla/bigbird is 755 bigbird bigbird
.mozilla/bigbird/1a414ofz.slt is 755 bigbird bigbird
.mozilla/bigbird/1a414ofz.slt/bigbird is 775 bigbird bigbird

In .mozilla/bigbird/1a414ofz.slt/
[bigbird at localhost 1a414ofz.slt]$ ls -la News
total 28
drwxrwxr-x    3 bigbird  bigbird      4096 Jun 22 22:59 ./
drwxr-xr-x    7 bigbird  bigbird      4096 Sep 28 16:51 ../
drwxr-xr-x    2 bigbird  bigbird      4096 Sep 28 12:13 news.buffnet.net/
-rw-rw-r--    1 bigbird  bigbird        25 Jun 22 22:59 news.buffnet.net.dat
-rw-rw-r--    1 bigbird  bigbird      1334 Sep 28 12:04 news.buffnet.net.msf
-rw-rw-r--    1 bigbird  bigbird        89 Sep 28 12:13 
newsrc-news.buffnet.net
-rw-rw-r--    1 bigbird  bigbird        25 Jun 28 15:04 tmprules.dat
[bigbird at localhost 1a414ofz.slt]$

In .mozilla/bigbird/1a414ofz.slt/News
[bigbird at localhost News]$ ls -la news.buffnet.net
total 1160
drwxr-xr-x    2 bigbird  bigbird      4096 Sep 28 12:13 ./
drwxrwxr-x    3 bigbird  bigbird      4096 Jun 22 22:59 ../
-rw-rw-r--    1 bigbird  bigbird      1478 Sep 28 17:05 alt.art-bell.msf
-rw-rw-r--    1 bigbird  bigbird      1612 Sep 28 17:05 
alt.binaries.tv.x-files.msf
-rw-rw-r--    1 bigbird  bigbird   1162265 Jun 20 11:53 hostinfo.dat
-rw-rw-r--    1 bigbird  bigbird      1622 Sep 28 12:04 
netscape.mozilla.user.unix.msf
[bigbird at localhost News]$

So it doesn't look like I'm locked out of anything.

It may be unrelated, but in /home/bigbird, I see
lrwxrwxrwx    1 bigbird  bigbird        14 Sep 28 10:07 lock -> 
127.0.0.1:2502
flashing red as a broken link, but that looks like a lock semaphore of 
some kind that is probably OK.

vlok stone wrote:

>ok. you're able to connect. so, seems like a setting. 
>not a whole lot on their site. so, make sure nothing
>like ssl or anything is enabled. not sure if you have
>to include uid/passwd. any log files that indicate a
>problem? what are your settings
>
>--- Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
>  
>
>>[bigbird at localhost tmp]$ telnet news.buffnet.net 119
>>Trying 205.247.125.162...
>>Connected to news3.buffnet.net (205.247.125.162).
>>Escape character is '^]'.
>>200 news3.buffnet.net DNEWS Version 5.2a4, S1,
>>posting OK
>>
>>That worked fine.  So what's with Mozilla?
>>
>>Joe
>>
>>vlok stone wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>see if you can connect by 
>>>telnet news.buffnet.net 119
>>>i was able to no problem. 
>>>
>>>--- Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>I have Mozilla 1.6 (and past versions 1.3, 1.4,
>>>>        
>>>>
>>1.5)
>>    
>>
>>>>on Linux and 1.3 on 
>>>>Windoze (too lazy to do the other long download). 
>>>>My ISP is Buffnet 
>>>>(and I'm trying to get help from them.)
>>>>When I access my news account in 1.3 on Windoze,
>>>>        
>>>>
>>it
>>    
>>
>>>>works.
>>>>When I try anything with news on 1.6 (or 1.3) on
>>>>Linux, I get:
>>>>
>>>>Could not connect to server news.buffnet.net, the
>>>>connection was refused.
>>>>
>>>>My email and browsing in Mozilla 1.6 on Linux work
>>>>fine.
>>>>As far as I know the news settings are the same
>>>>        
>>>>
>>for
>>    
>>
>>>>Windows and Linux.  
>>>>I even have the IP address of news.buffnet.net in
>>>>the setup and get the 
>>>>same error message.
>>>>
>>>>Any idea what I should look for?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>Joe
>>>>
>>>>-- 
>>>>If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and
>>>>        
>>>>
>>peace,
>>    
>>
>>>>then progress in virtue is progress in each of
>>>>these; for to whatever point the perfection of
>>>>anything brings us, progress is always an approach
>>>>toward it. -Epictetus
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>=====
>>>Free Good
>>>Fire Bad
>>>
>>>__________________________________
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>>>      
>>>
>>spam
>>    
>>
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>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>-- 
>>There is no knowledge without research and
>>investigation. Knowledge can never be achieved as
>>long as man lives in an environment influenced by
>>ignorance and fear of the unknown. - Fritz Kron
>>
>>    
>>
>
>
>=====
>Free Good
>Fire Bad
>
>__________________________________
>Do you Yahoo!?
>Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam
>http://mail.yahoo.com
>
>  
>

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