Subject: Mail to News-server. WHY?

From: [email-masked] (Malcolm L. Carlock)
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 08:27:13 -0800

I'm re-sending this, as I'm not sure it went out the first time.
Apologies if this is a repeat.

We have a couple of PINE-3.91 for Windows users who are having a
frequent problem whereby PINE tries to post mail messages that they're
try to send, to a news-server instead of the smtp-server.  The posts fail;
nntp-server and news-collections are not even set for these users.  If
they keep doing CTRL-X enough times, the message finally goes through.
Each failure results in an error message that the message can't be
posted to the news server, and in several seconds of delay.

Can someone suggest a fix or workaround for this, or tell us what we're
doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any info.

Malcolm

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