213268 - Cannot POST to newsgroups via <news.earthlink.net> servers

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)

Description

[Joe Mehaffey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030712
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030712

During the past couple of weeks, apparently Earthlink has made some changes to
their news servers.  I now (but not in the past) have the following problems:
1) Using Netscape 7.1 and Mozilla 1.4 or Netscape 4.77, I cannot POST new mail
to MOST (but not all) newsgroups.  For instance, I cannot post to
news:sci.geo.satellite-nav.  I get an error message as follows: 
   A news (NNTP) error occurred: 437 Unwanted Newsgroup "sci.geo.satellite-nav"

2) I can DOWNLOAD messages from (for instance) sci.geo.satellite-nav using
nntp.mindspring.com but NOT using news.earthlink.net.
3) Using Outlook express, I can send and receive postings to all newsgroups on
both news servers.


They made some change a few days ago and since then I have to use outlook
express to send out NEWS postings.  I can receive news OK. Earthlink's answer? 
"We do not support Netscape/Mozilla.  You will have to ask Mozilla/Netscape to
update their mail system."

Does anyone know what is going on here? 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Just try and send a NEWS POSTING using either of the above news servers.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
error message

Comment 1

[Joe Mehaffey]

I have periodically loaded beta builds to see if this problem had been fixed.  I
am happy to report that I loaded the version Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827 and the problem has been fixed.

Joe Mehaffey