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Posted: **May 27th, 2011, 9:06 am**

Hi,

Can I instruct SAB to download a certain post based on it's message-id like ? If not directly, can I easily create a NZB with only one message-id?

I tried to create a fake NZB, with that message-id in it (see below), but the size is the problem: filling out a random numer does not work; SAB compalins about out-of-retention. So I guess SAB does checking on the download size versus the NZB specified size (which I don't know before hand). :-(

So: tips? Ideas?

alt.binaries.ftd

blablalbal@blaba.net

EDIT:

PS: Yes, with a manual telnet / NNTP session to a newsserver, it's easy to get the message: HEAD or ARTICLE or BODY will do. And somewhere in SAB, SAB will use that. But how can I instruct SAB to download a certain message-id ... ?

Posted: **May 27th, 2011, 9:33 am**

SABnzbd expects a valid yEnc or uuencoded message.
It will just ignore other formats.
It expects a file and it complains about retention because at the end of the NZB
it doesn't have any file.
The size parameter has nothing to do with it.

What are you up to?

Posted: **May 27th, 2011, 10:06 am**

shypike wrote: SABnzbd expects a valid yEnc or uuencoded message.
It will just ignore other formats.
It expects a file and it complains about retention because at the end of the NZB
it doesn't have any file.
The size parameter has nothing to do with it.

Ah. You're good: I did a manul BODY-retrieve of the message, and ... it was a binary message. No ASCII nor yEnc nor UUencode. So that is the reason? I didn't even you know you could use binary / 8-bit octets in Usenet?

shypike wrote: What are you up to?

Ouch. You got me. I must confess I'm trying to reverse engineer a certain program that we are not allowed to discuss here ... it uses three different usenet groups for it's decentral communication ... ;-)

Posted: **May 27th, 2011, 12:21 pm**

Why don't use use a universal Usenet client for this reverse engineering, like Grabit.

Posted: **May 28th, 2011, 3:23 am**

shypike wrote: Why don't use use a universal Usenet client for this reverse engineering, like Grabit.

Grabit is for Windows, which I don't have.

I used Thunderbird to have a look at the post. And a few lines of python are enough too:

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>>> import nntplib

>>> s = nntplib.NNTP('newszilla6.xs4all.nl')

>>> s.stat('<ZykYG8N95dczSfeTQAH2b@bla.net>')
('223 0 <ZykYG8N95dczSfeTQAH2b@bla.net> status', '0', '<ZykYG8N95dczSfeTQAH2b@bla.net>')

>>> s.body('<ZykYG8N95dczSfeTQAH2b@bla.net>','mijnfile')
('222 0 <ZykYG8N95dczSfeTQAH2b@bla.net> body', '0', '<ZykYG8N95dczSfeTQAH2b@bla.net>', [])
>>>

The problem seems to be the encoding of the body / resulting file (which goes into 'mijnfile'): binary stuff. Not a readable NZB. I don't know which encoding (*zip, sha1, rsa, ...) is used. :-(

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