*** Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@rushpost.com> [2017-01-15 04:46]:
>This is from feeding nncp-mail a short test message from the command
>line by hand, on the system tossing them. Even if I'm doing it wrong,
>this really shouldn't happen.

Fully agreed that those kind of errors must not occur at all. Fixed in
https://git.cypherpunks.ru/cgit.cgi/nncp.git/commit/?h=develop&id=8cfca6f25358b2ce75abd2b410e28e5b5008413b
it is because "sendmail" configuration field is not set for the node.
No it will skip this packet with warning message about unconfigured
sendmail.

Thanks for bugreporting!

I think that will release the next version of NNCP today.

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