Subj : Runtime Error 200
To   : Lawrence Garvin
From : Dave Hamilton
Date : Sat Mar 31 2001 04:55 am

Hi Lawrence,

3/31/01 10:42:56 AM, Lawrence Garvin wrote to Dave Hamilton:

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

Yes. The only workaround I can think of is to run your own news server as a 
buffer between your ISP and ngate. Let it authenticate with your feed, but give 
ngate access to it. When I gated usenet I ran my own nntp server for some 
reason but for the life of me, I can't remember what it was.

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

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

 LG>    with Send=Queue, the message is queued, but sendmail refuses to process 
it with
 LG> the following complaint when executing '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

Yes. Mailgate used this method as a shortcut that was not expected by sendmail. 
I believe that was documented. It exploited a security hole in IBM's 
implementation of sendmail by tricking sendmail into thinking it had already 
queued these postings itself. In Warp4 (and maybe some Warp3 fixpaks) IBM fixed 
that by auditing the qf creation history. I only used it because it was fast.

I'm afraid I can't be very helpful. The only OS/2 I run these days is a Warp4 
workstation. The sources for both of these programs are on a dozen or so tapes 
that I have been unable to restore. They were made with a buggy version of 
BackAgain/2 that I didn't know was buggy. I have not given up trying to get 
data off them, but I am unlikely to continue development of either utility.

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

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

Dave


--- FTNed v0.23h/Win32
 * Origin: Aurora Exploratoria - telnet://aurorabbs.dyndns.org (1:229/622)

.