When submitting a "newnews" command to the 'nnrpd' server, the list of returned message-id's is broken, i.e. the closing ">" sign is missing. Transcript of a session: $ telnet localhost nntp Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 200 localhost InterNetNews server INN 2.2.1 25-Aug-1999 ready mode reader 200 localhost InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.2.1 25-Aug-1999 ready (posting ok). newnews localhost.test 19991227 000000 230 New news follows <848lur$3hh$1@localhost <848mss$3lc$1@localhost <848pvp$3rv$1@localhost . quit 205 . Connection closed by foreign host. $
Created attachment 46 [details] Patch file for inn-2.2.1/nnrpd/newnews.c, fix missing ">" bug
The attached file 'newnews.patch' fixes this bug; it's also fixed in the 2.2.2 release of 'inn' by the ISC and marked accordingly in the ChangeLog for 2.2.2.