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Bug 213699

Summary:	Web based subscribe interface broken: "You must supply a valid email address"
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Graham Leggett <minfrin>
Component:	Forums and Newsgroups	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Graham Leggett

2007-12-21 10:29:22 EST

Build ID: N/A

Steps To Reproduce:
If an attempt is made to subscribe via the following web interface:

https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/news.eclipse.technology.equinox

The error message "You must supply a valid email address" is returned.

In this case, a valid email address is supplied.


More information:

Comment 1 Eclipse Webmaster

2007-12-21 10:57:07 EST

I'm not sure were you found a link to that page, but the news.eclipse.* mailing lists do not accept subscriptions.  They only exist to provide an archive of their respective newsgroups.

-M.

Comment 2 Graham Leggett

2007-12-21 11:10:45 EST

Google found it.

The newsgroup interface is inaccessible from within corporate networks, leaving the mailing list as the only option.

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2007-12-21 11:38:28 EST

It seems odd that the web based newsgroup interface(www.eclipse.org/newsgroups) doesn't work from behind your firewall.  You could try connection to news.eclipse.org on port 80 since it listens there as well.

-M.

Comment 4 Graham Leggett

2007-12-21 12:36:36 EST

This presupposes that I succeed in getting a news reader installed on my machine, which given this network I am on is highly unlikely.