[Pan-users] (solved) Re: Errors downloading binary news

[Volker Wysk]

Am Freitag, 27. Juli 2018, 20:51:49 CEST schrieb Volker Wysk:
> Hi!
> 
> I've set up pan, and it works fine, but for one problem. When I save an 
> article's attachments (to /tmp/news in this case), I get this:
> 
> ------------------------------snip------------------------------
> desktop /tmp/news $ ls -l
> -rw-r--r-- 1 v v 82911 Jul 27 20:41 THBC01-06 - Trisha Yearwood Wvocal - 
> Powerful Thing.zip
> -rw-r--r-- 1 v v   126 Jul 27 20:41 THBC01-06 - Trisha Yearwood Wvocal - 
> Powerful Thing.zip.ERRORS
> 
> desktop /tmp/news $ cat THBC01-06\ -\ Trisha\ Yearwood\ Wvocal\ -\ Powerful\ 
> Thing.zip.ERRORS 
> Warning: Data looks suspicious. Decoded file might be corrupt.
> Warning: Data looks suspicious. Decoded file might be corrupt.
> 
> desktop /tmp/news $ unzip -v *zip
> Archive:  THBC01-06 - Trisha Yearwood Wvocal - Powerful Thing.zip
> error [THBC01-06 - Trisha Yearwood Wvocal - Powerful Thing.zip]:  missing 
> 2995200 bytes in zipfile
>   (attempting to process anyway)
>  Length   Method    Size  Cmpr    Date    Time   CRC-32   Name
> --------  ------  ------- ---- ---------- ----- --------  ----
>  2801664  Defl:N  2713384   3% 2005-08-09 13:25 e19a6a15  THBC01-06 - 
> Yearwood, Trisha wvocal - Powerful Thing.mp3
>  1260096  Defl:N   364051  71% 2005-08-03 22:30 5b936c3c  THBC01-06 - 
> Yearwood, Trisha wvocal - Powerful Thing.cdg
> --------          -------  ---                            -------
>  4061760          3077435  24%                            2 files
> ------------------------------snip------------------------------
> 
> The subject is "Attn : THBC fill-ins - "THBC01-06 - Trisha Yearwood Wvocal - 
> Powerful Thing.zip" yEnc (13/13)". Could it have to do something with yEnd?
> 
> I've tried it with various news postings, and it's always the same.

I've figured out, what's going on. 
 
I had been trying to use the newsserver of the internet provider IN-Berlin 
(in-berlin.de). I've contacted their support, and he kind of hinted that this 
is a server issue. They are deleting all but the last part of multipart 
messages, on purpose (so it seems). They don't want users to download binary 
news. I can kind of understand this, but just doing so, without any warning, is 
very bad.

I've tried it with another news provider (Disputo), and it appears to works 
fine, with the same version of pan.

bye
Volker