[Pan-users] basic newsgroup questions

[Christian Buhtz]

Ok, now I can see this group with M. I tried to create my first post with 
M to this group.

1. M try to recieve all headers (1993) of this group. Isn't there a way 
to setup M that it only recieve the newest headers?

2. I try to set the newsgroup-field in the folder-properties to 
"gmane.mail.mahogany.*" and "gmane.mail.mahogany". But I am not able to 
browser in the sub-folders. M says the folder has no sub-folders. How can 
I recieve a complete list of all avaialbe newsgroups to search in them 
and to subscribe them?

3. I composed a new message. The To-field is not set. I had to set the 
field type (newsgroup) and the field value (this newsgroup) manualy. 
Isn't there a functionality like "post to this group"?

4. While composing the message I disabled the second To-header set to 
"SentMail". I didn't know what it is and I only needed to post to the 
newsgroup specified by the first header. This is the normal user 
thinking! ;)
I didn't know that "SentMail" is something like a was-send-folder. Things 
like this should be done more ergonomicly. ;)

5. While sending the posting an error occured. The message couldn't be 
send with the local MTA and the sendmail-command couldn't be executed. Ok 
I installed sendmail and tried again. No sendmail isn't correct 
configured. Of course I don't want to do this! What has sendmail to do 
with all this things? And shouldn't M handle this byitself or configure 
sendmail by itself. For me it doesn't matter how the postings comes to 
the newsgroup but M should know it itself!
A user of M shouldn't be botherd with low-level things like that.

Please correct me if I am wrong but isn't the newsserver itself used to 
send postings, too? Why do I need sendmail (is an SMTP-server I think?) 
for that?

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