Gert Andersen wrote to Tony Comandini:
GA> Hello Tony!
GA> 
GA> Fri Jan 06 2017, Tony Comandini wrote to All:
GA> 
GA>  TC>anybody of you has setup NNTP and works well? According to the doc I 
GA>  TC>enabled
GA>  TC>the option on mbsetup but unfortunately the port 119 in the system 
GA>  TC>still down
GA>  TC>and of course can' t connect with a client.
GA> 
GA>  TC>Any suggestion?
GA> 
GA> MbseBBS is your NNTP and you can ask you isp for newgroup connection, then 
GA> in mbsebbs echos put and check nae for the messages and use some extra 
GA> echos where you fetch for newsgroups at your isp or some other news 
GA> provider. But you have too to tell mbse the info for the news providers.
GA> 
GA> The to get port 119 open for nntp check you system for service port 119 is 

I think I made a mistake:
following commands:
cd ~/mbsebbs-1.0.6
./configure [--enable-optimize] [--enable-newsgate] [--enable-gdkdel] make
su important, do not use "su -"
password: enter root password here
make install
exit
Ubuntu users should do:
cd ~/mbsebbs-1.0.6
./configure [--enable-optimize] [--enable-newsgate] [--enable-gdkdel]
make
sudo make install
Important: it seems logical to use the --enable-newsgate option but it isn't.
When you do, the mbnntp program is disabled and you cannot serve echomail as
news to your users via internet. But you can gate echomail to the internet.
Independent of your choice, you can always make internet news available for
your bbs users. Only use --enable-newsgate if you really need to gate echomail
to the internet.

Unfortunately I had just run ./configure without option and probably the
newsgate is off...I have to recompile everything from scratch?
            

    Greetings, Tony Comandini

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