do_child(): set reader mode when creating the NNTP connection.

Jim Tittsler writes:

    Posting also requires the server to be in 'mode reader' (at least
    our INN does).  I think you only updated the cron/gatenews...

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Mailman/Handlers/ToUsenet.py b/Mailman/Handlers/ToUsenet.py
index 5e59a211c..58dd31460 100644
--- a/Mailman/Handlers/ToUsenet.py
+++ b/Mailman/Handlers/ToUsenet.py
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ import re
 
 from Mailman.pythonlib.StringIO import StringIO
 
+# The version we have is from Python 1.5.2+ and fixes the "mode reader"
+# problem.
+from Mailman.pythonlib import nntplib
+
 
 
 def process(mlist, msg):
@@ -123,7 +127,7 @@ def do_child(mlist, msg):
     # flatten the message object, stick it in a StringIO object and post
     # that resulting thing to the newsgroup
     fp = StringIO(str(msg))
-    conn = nntplib.NNTP(mlist.nntp_host)
+    conn = nntplib.NNTP(mlist.nntp_host, readermode=1)
     try:
         try:
             conn.post(fp)