[Evolution-users] Using Evolution to post(!) to a newsgroup

[Milan Crha]

On Thu, 2023-04-20 at 10:00 +0200, Volker Bartheld wrote:
> So I tried the process again yesterday. Evolution 3.36.5-0ubuntu1 on
> Linux Mint Mate 20 "Ulyssa", if that matters.

	Hi,
yes, it definitely matters. The 3.36.5 is ancient, it had been released
on 2020-08-07, thus it's almost three years old. I've been testing this
on the current code, which will become 3.48.1 tomorrow, but 3.46.x or
even slightly older might work similarly (I do not recall when exactly
there had been done any fix in the NNTP/newsgroup code). 

If you cannot get the current stable series, then I suggest you try the
Flatpak version from the https://flathub.org . It has its own quirks,
some users have trouble running it, but it's the way to get the latest
code to the distributions, which do not update the packages.

> probably missing some important step that wasn't obvious from the
> Edit/Accounts/Mail Accounts/Add/Mail Account dialog where I added an
> account for server type "USENET news" as one would expect.

I do not think so. There's nothing to be done wrong when creating an
NNTP account. You definitely did it correctly, because you can
subscribe to the news groups and you can read messages in them. I
suspect there was a bug fixed on the evolution side to better/properly
handle the NNTP messages. One of the reasons to use the latest stable
version series, to get the fixes.

	Bye,
	Milan