When cross-posting to multiple news groups, Evolution seems to be submitting _multiple_ messages with the same Message-Id: header, each to only one group. These seem to get eaten by the news server, not entirely surprisingly. RFC3977 says that Message-ID MUST be unique. Compare Evolution's attempt at cross-posting: http://david.woodhou.se/postdump.cap With Pine: http://david.woodhou.se/post-dump-3.cap The important part being that Evolution does this... post 340 340 <49c24468$0$513$5a6aecb4.net.uk> (desired) Newsgroups: uk.net.providers.aaisp Subject: News cross-posts silently discarded? ... post 340 340 <49c24468$1$513$5a6aecb4.net.uk> (desired) Newsgroups: uk.test Subject: News cross-posts silently discarded? While Pine does it in one go: POST 340 340 <49c246b4$0$511$5a6aecb4.net.uk> (desired) Path: macbook.infradead.org!dwmw2 Newsgroups: uk.test,uk.net.providers.aaisp Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:20:47 +0000 From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2.org> Subject: Cross-posting, again.
Moving this upstream for better visibility. Please see [1] for further updates. [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587257