john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) (11/22/89)
I'd like to be able to route incoming mail from a mailing list into a local newsgroup. Is there software available to do this? I tried using 'deliver' to do this, by grepping the "Subject:" and "Reply-To:" headers from the mail message, adding "Newsgroups:" and "Distribution:", and feeding the result into inews -h. This works, but has a couple of problems: my .signature gets appended to all of the articles, and when Rnmail is invoked via "R" from rn, it ignores the "Reply-To" header and sends the mail back to me. Any suggestions? -- John Temples -- UUCP: uunet!jwt!john
chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) (11/23/89)
According to john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples): >I'd like to be able to route incoming mail from a mailing list into a local >newsgroup. Is there software available to do this? I tried using 'deliver' >[... but:] my .signature gets appended to all of the articles, and when >Rnmail is invoked via "R" from rn, it ignores the "Reply-To" header and > sends the mail back to me. Any suggestions? I earlier posted a version of my "del.news" script, which can be used with Deliver to gateways mail to news. However, it had some faults. The version I've enclosed below deals with: Newsgroups, Distribution, Subject From, Sender Message-ID, References Note that this script retains the mail's Message-Id. It also translates the In-Reply-To header into a one-item References header, for use with modern newsreaders. It also changes the HOME directory of the inews program to somewhere that it won't find a ".signature" file. (Thanks to Bret Orsburn <bret@codonics.COM> for prodding me to fix the From handling.) This New and Improved del.news script, along with a sample post-user delivery file that calls it, is sharchived below. If you use the enclosed post-user file, mail to "news-newsgroup" is posted to "newsgroup". Shar and enjoy. #! /bin/sh # This is a shell archive. Remove anything before this line, then unpack # it by saving it into a file and typing "sh file". To overwrite existing # files, type "sh file -c". You can also feed this as standard input via # unshar, or by typing "sh <file", e.g.. If this archive is complete, you # will see the following message at the end: # "End of shell archive." # Contents: del.p.news del.news # Wrapped by chip@ateng on Wed Nov 22 14:16:12 1989 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb ; export PATH if test -f 'del.p.news' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'del.p.news'\" else echo shar: Extracting \"'del.p.news'\" \(617 characters\) sed "s/^X//" >'del.p.news' <<'END_OF_FILE' X: del.p.news X# A post-user delivery file to demonstrate news delivery. X# Requires the "del.news" script. X X# Handle normal addresses, and accumulate newsgroup names. X XGROUPS= X Xfor u Xdo X case "$u" in X news[\-\.]*) X group=`echo $u | sed -e 's/^news.//' -e 'y/-/./'` X if [ "$GROUPS" ] X then X GROUPS="${NEWSGROUPS},${group}" X else X GROUPS="${group}" X fi X ;; X *) X echo "$u" X ;; X esac Xdone X X# Post to any newsgroup(s). X Xif [ "$GROUPS" ] Xthen X case "$DELFLAGS" in X *[dA]*) X # Dry Run X echo >&2 "$0: post to $GROUPS" X ;; X *) X /usr/local/lib/del.news local "$GROUPS" X ;; X esac X X echo DROP Xfi END_OF_FILE if test 617 -ne `wc -c <'del.p.news'`; then echo shar: \"'del.p.news'\" unpacked with wrong size! fi # end of 'del.p.news' fi if test -f 'del.news' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'del.news'\" else echo shar: Extracting \"'del.news'\" \(2265 characters\) sed "s/^X//" >'del.news' <<'END_OF_FILE' X: del.news X# Shell script run by post-user delivery file. X Xif [ $# -ne 2 ] Xthen X echo >&2 "usage: $0 distribution newsgroups" X exit 1 Xfi X XDIST="$1" XGROUPS="$2" X X#----------------------------------------------------------------------- X# Configuration X#----------------------------------------------------------------------- X XMAILNAME=/usr/lib/news/mailname # C News -- mail name of org/host XFAKEHOME=/usr/local/lib # Fake HOME for inews - no signature X X[ -s $MAILNAME ] && MHOST=`sed 1q $MAILNAME` X[ "$MHOST" ] || MHOST=$HOST.UUCP X X#----------------------------------------------------------------------- X# Figure out who is posting it. X# That's the user name if local; otherwise, the Usenet owner. X# Export this value as LOGNAME, so inews can use it. X#----------------------------------------------------------------------- X Xcase "$SENDER" in X*!*) LOGNAME=news ;; X*) LOGNAME=$SENDER ;; Xesac Xexport LOGNAME X X#----------------------------------------------------------------------- X# Generate the news article and feed it to inews. X#----------------------------------------------------------------------- X X( X # Newsgroups X echo "Newsgroups: $GROUPS" X X # Distribution (if not world) X [ "$DIST" = "world" ] || echo "Distribution: $DIST" X X # Subject X header -n -f Subject $HEADER X X # From X from=`header -f From $HEADER` X case "$from" in X *@*) X echo "From: $from" ;; X *) X case "$SENDER" in X *!*) X u=`expr "$SENDER" : '.*!\(.*\)$'` X h=`expr "!$SENDER" : '.*!\([^!]*\)![^!]*$'` X case "$h" in X *.*) ;; X *) h="$h.UUCP" ;; X esac X ;; X *) X u="$SENDER" X h=$MHOST X ;; X esac X c=`expr "$from" : '.*\( ([^)]*)\).*$'` X echo "From: $u@$h$c" X ;; X esac X X # Sender X echo "Sender: usenet@$MHOST" X X # Message-ID (optional) X x=`header -f message-id $HEADER` X [ "$x" ] && echo "Message-ID: $x" X X # References (optional) X x=`header -f in-reply-to $HEADER` X x=`expr "$x" : '.*\(<[^>]*>\).*$'` X [ "$x" ] && echo "References: $x" X X # Separator X echo "" X X # Body (without gratuitous blank line at the end) X sed '${/^$/d;}' $BODY X) | X HOME=$FAKEHOME /usr/lib/news/inews -h X X## Save a copy of the mail for debugging purposes X#echo news:Posted END_OF_FILE if test 2265 -ne `wc -c <'del.news'`; then echo shar: \"'del.news'\" unpacked with wrong size! fi chmod +x 'del.news' # end of 'del.news' fi echo shar: End of shell archive. exit 0 -- You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise. Chip Salzenberg at A T Engineering; <chip@ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip> "Did I ever tell you the Jim Gladding story about the binoculars?"
jthomp@texsun.Central.Sun.COM (Jim Thompson ) (12/02/89)
In article <476@jwt.UUCP> john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes: > >I'd like to be able to route incoming mail from a mailing list into a local >newsgroup. Is there software available to do this? I tried using >'deliver' to do this, by grepping the "Subject:" and "Reply-To:" >headers from the mail message, adding "Newsgroups:" and >"Distribution:", and feeding the result into inews -h. This works, but >has a couple of problems: my .signature gets appended to all of the >articles, and when Rnmail is invoked via "R" from rn, it ignores the >"Reply-To" header and sends the mail back to me. Any suggestions? Two suggestions: 1) Use the software written by either Erik Fair or Rich $alz that does this. Erik wrote it for the 'inet' group gateway he runs. Rich rewrote much of Erik's work in 'C'. 2) Do what I do and hack 'recnews' enough that it gets the Reply-To, Path, and References headers right Combine this with a custom (sendmail) mailer on the gateway machine that recognizes the incomming group names and calls the above recnews with appropriate args. (After munging the From: line into something reasonable..) I like the 2nd approach because it eliminates keeping 'both' sets of aliases up-to-date. I use a simple 'news.group-name' pattern in the bottom of ruleset 0. (i.e. the prepended 'news.' tells sendmail that "this is a newsgroup..") You can even send to multiple groups (cross-posting) with this method. I do like some of the methodology in R$'s stuff, like the ability to do really evil things like say "this user said 'want' in the subject line, but posted to a 'forsale' group, so move it to 'foo.wanted'. It also has the ability to filter 'please add me to this list' out of the incomming stream. (Oh yea, both Erik's and R$'s work will post to multiple newsgroups as well. I didn't mean to imply that my method was better, just more convienent for me.) Jim -- Jim Thompson - Network Engineering - Sun Microsystems - jthomp@central.sun.com Member of the Fatalistic International Society for Hedonistic Youth (FISHY) "I woudn't recommend sex, drugs, or unix for everyone, but they work for me." - Me (paraphrasing Hunter S. Thompson)