liz@grian.UUCP (Liz Allen-Mitchell) (03/04/88)
I have a local mailing list set up to feed mail to a local newsgroup
using recnews as:
cl-local:"|/usr/lib/news/recnews cps.common"
which is posting the mail to cps.common pretty much as I wanted, but
the articles are posted in a strange order -- nowhere near the original
order in which the mail was written. I know enough not to expect the
articles to be in the exact order they were written, but they have
always arrived on grian in a pretty reasonable order -- now they almost
seem random. This makes the newsgroup much more difficult to read
coherently.
I think this is caused by sendmail spawning separate processes for each
recnews and not waiting for one to finish before starting the next so
that swapping, etc, is mixing up the order. I suppose hacking recnews
to lock out later recnews' until its done would help, but...
Has anyone else out there noticed this? Does anyone have a fix?
Thanks much for any help!
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- Liz Allen-Mitchell liz@grian.cps.com
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"God is light; in him there is no darkness at all." -- 1 John 1:5bkarl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (03/04/88)
liz@grian.UUCP writes:
I have a local mailing list set up to feed mail to a local newsgroup
using recnews as:
[...a piped alias...]
which is posting the mail to cps.common pretty much as I wanted, but
the articles are posted in a strange order -- nowhere near the original
order in which the mail was written. I know enough not to expect the
articles to be in the exact order they were written, but they have
always arrived on grian in a pretty reasonable order
This may be caused by your sendmail configuration being set up for the
"prog" mailer to have the `e' "expensive" flag, and hence it doesn't
even attempt delivery. It just waits for a queue run, by which time
the order of things found in /usr/spool/mqueue is bound to be mighty
random. Take out the `e' in the F=<stuff> field of the "prog" mailer
definition and see what happens.
As a countersuggestion, we do a mail-into-news conversion this way in
sendmail.cf:
CNcomp misc news rec sci soc talk unix-pc ddn alt
S0
R$=N.$*<@$=W.$D> $#news$:$1.$2 Posting to news
And then the "news" mailer is defined as
Mnews, P=/usr/lib/news/recnews, F=DFMls, M=65535, A=recnews $u
Essentially, it detects a newsgroup-destined piece of mail via a `.'
in the name with a first word being one of the standard newsgroup
classes. It works very well, and in fact our CN includes a few other
words for local newsgroup classes. And you don't have to maintain
aliases in /usr/lib/aliases as separate entities.