Subj : Runtime Error 200
To   : Dave Hamilton
From : Lawrence Garvin
Date : Sun Apr 01 2001 08:57 am

Dave Hamilton said in a message to Lawrence Garvin:

 DH> Hi Lawrence,

Hey! Thanks for the prompt response!

 LG> NGATE (v0.34) seems to only work with news servers that support
 DH> unauthenticated access.

 DH> Yes. The only workaround I can think of is to run your own news
 DH> server as a buffer between your ISP and ngate. Let it authenticate
 DH> with your feed, but give ngate access to it.

Thanks.. I'd pretty much figgered that was my only functional option.


 LG> MAILGATE (v1.11c)... recently, after applying current FixPaks... I'm
 DH> encountering  LG> two scenarios:
 LG>
 LG>    with Send=Pipe, the Pipe talking to sendmail hangs and the message is
 DH> never sent.
 LG>

 DH> I haven't seen that one, but I'll take your word for it.

Hmmm...

 LG>    with Send=Queue, the message is queued, but sendmail refuses
 LG> to process it with the following complaint when executing 
 LG> 'sendmail -q -v':
 LG> c:\mptn\etc\aliases: 2 aliases, longest 20 bytes, 53 bytes total
 LG> c:\mptn\etc\aliases: 2 aliases, longest 20 bytes, 53 bytes total
 LG> orderq: bogus qf name qfAAEE5E

 DH> Yes. Mailgate used this method as a shortcut that was not expected
 DH> by sendmail. I believe that was documented. It exploited a security
 DH> hole in IBM's implementation of sendmail by tricking sendmail into
 DH> thinking it had already queued these postings itself.

Aha!..

 DH> In Warp4 (and maybe some Warp3 fixpaks) IBM fixed that by auditing 
 DH> the qf creation history. I only used it because it was fast. 
 DH> I'm afraid I can't be very helpful. The only OS/2 I run these days
 DH> is a Warp4 workstation. The sources for both of these programs are
 DH> on a dozen or so tapes that I have been unable to restore. They
 DH> were made with a buggy version of BackAgain/2 that I didn't know
 DH> was buggy. I have not given up trying to get data off them, but I
 DH> am unlikely to continue development of either utility. 

I understand the situation. Sorry to hear about your tape snafus... been 
there.. it ain't fun.

 DH> If I rescue the sources, I'll release them.

Cool... I might be inclined to tackle those fixes if the opportunity arises.

 DH> I don't know what the current level of sendmail is implemented, but
 DH> you may be able to make it work by having mailgate place its qf
 DH> files into a directory sendmail doesn't know about, then calling
 DH> sendmail from the command line to send them. I'm not fluent in
 DH> anything more recent than Sendmail V8, so it's only a wild guess.

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll definitely give that a try.

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