Re: [Pan-users] Re: Odd error messages

[Pete Goudreau]

Thanks for the welcome, much appreciated.

Wanted to let all know the problem appears to be resolved.

Evolution handles news and provides full SSL authentication for nntp and
I've had no trouble so far using it for mail on the same server and
there have been plenty of mail issues that generated a lot of error
messages, none of which appeared like the ones here.

Interestingly once Evolution was set up for nntp to the same server and
group(s) some error messages popped up as the server appeared and
disappeared (it does that...) and each one appeared very much like the
ones described here.  Graphically the same as well.

However this time a second message produced a line with a sentence
fragment ending with a period and then a capitalized start to a new
sentence but only a short fragment of one.  Now it appears clear the OS
in conjunction with this particular server's nntp behavior are
responsible for extracting text fragments of posts cached or buffered
somewhere in transit but never seen, as was proposed.

Couldn't find anything in the system using some of the tools available
and nothing unusual going on with any other app.  I did load up
Thunderbird again and get it set up properly but no error messages ever
appeared so I was unable to get a third look into the problem.  I don't
use that app anyway but I suspect I'd see similar messages if I were to
use it long enough to get a problem somehow.

Anyway, thanks to all for their time and effort, and fast (!) response -
helped keep the sanity level in check over here. ;)

Thanks again,
Pete

On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 15:18 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sat, 02 May 2009 11:28:16 -0500, Pete Goudreau wrote:
> 
> > First post so hi to all.
> 
>       Welcome aboard!
> 
>       [...]
> > There is something odd happening on occasion which I can't repeat.  I'll
> > write a post and hit send only to get an error message that might say,
> > "Master's in what?" or "Creative writing!" or just a caret and nothing
> > at all. Saving the post as a draft, opening the post to respond to,
> > cutting and pasting from the draft, and hitting send again doesn't
> > eliminate the problem. Restarting Pan and repeating the above sequence
> > works just fine.  A bit strange.
> 
>       You might want to go poke around grc.com and news.grc.com, 
> especially grc.security and grc.techtalk.linux, to get some feedback on 
> the cracking question.
> 
>       You might also want to go to news.gmane.org and try posting in 
> gmane.linux.ubuntu.user. One of Pan's greatest benefits is enabling you 
> to surf big lists like that ubuntu one (or, much more often in my case, 
> the fedora one) instead of having to plow through digests or index lists 
> (if they even run Listserv and have the latter).
>