cannot download directly from "Search service"...

03 Oct 23: One server has been relocated, the server currently doesn't have a public IP address in the meantime. I wrote some additional tunnel code running separately to handle this. When the server is engaged the connection is 5600+ days uniform (since around 24 July 2008). In the unlikely case I disengaged the server because of some problem the retention is 1200-3800 days depending on newsgroup. If you experience any issue please let me know.

29 Nov 23: Because of encrypted and "obfuscated" flood mass posted by few nzb websites and newzbin-like communities using usenet servers as private storage for their members to download the posts - the situation with the content is pretty chaotic, since posts are disguised in such a way, that users must use the satellite ecosystem (whish is not a part of Usenet) exclusively to download them, when the website disappears - the encrypted scattered posts just eat usenet providers' disk space uselessly. If you can't find something specific please let me know what exactly you can't find for me to check how it is possible to retain the posts. Legible posts shouldn't be affected at all, let me know if you notice anything missing.

08 Aug 24: After being unchanged for many years the search service communication protocol had to be updated a few times in part to resolve a server side set feature limitation and properly handle trial searches on the relocated server. The searches themselves are not affected and it looks like the work is now complete.

15 Mar 25: It looks like the search service is currently down as there are no pings. The other server is no more on starlink, but the search requests are still routed and the access to it is through the first server, since it is safer, but the direct access is no problem if this will be a repeated issue. The connection will be restored or server restarted as soon as possible.

16 Mar 25: One server is currently still down, the other server was reconfigured and already connected directly, so the search service is running with minimum possible retention gaps.
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dcthom
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cannot download directly from "Search service"...

Post by dcthom »

Hello,
used to be that I could use "Search service", find desired message and download directly from the search service (results) tab.

That is not working anymore.

Now, after I use "Search service", the results are still posted to the same tab, but I cannot download from there. The message is marked for download, appear in "Articles" tab (w/ red exclamation), and also appear in "Inbox" tab, yet will not download.

My workaround: From the search results tab I get the name of the newsgroup for the desired message, then (subscribe to) get headers from THAT newsgroup, then am able to do the download from there, the individual/specific newsgroup.

Any idea why I can't download directly from Search service results? I swapped news providers a little while back. I don't know if it's related to the new provider, my configs for that provider, or a change on UE's end.

Appreciate any info.

Great software!!
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alex
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Post by alex »

if you expand the import group (the group where search results are imported to) in the workspace, do you see the server?

if not invoke advanced->attach all servers (but in principle when you add a server it is attached to all groups, so it should be there).

otherwise only if you create newsgroup of "article numbers" type and you changed "request article method" in "properties->articles" to "article number" it is a problem with provider, then in task manager in the red sign error pane you should see "no such article" error.

is it one of those two cases?
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dcthom
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Post by dcthom »

alex wrote:if you expand the import group (the group where search results are imported to) in the workspace, do you see the server?

if not invoke advanced->attach all servers (but in principle when you add a server it is attached to all groups, so it should be there).
Took me a while to figure what you meant, as I was looking in the Import "View" not "Workspace" :oops: No, the server was not there. I did the advanced -> attach and it works now. :D

Thank you for your fast response!! :)
Great software! 8)
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