giebelhaus@hi-csc.UUCP (Timothy R. Giebelhaus) (12/11/87)
How does one get mail into news. For example, say I want to have a
group called honeywell.cad.parts which as all the mail sent to
cad-parts@hi-csc.uucp.
I assume this must be possible as the Arpa mail lists makes it into news.
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Nobody I know admits to sharing my opinions. I don't even have a pet.bob@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (12/13/87)
In article <38fe15a9.4580@hi-csc.UUCP> giebelhaus@hi-csc.UUCP (Timothy R. Giebelhaus) writes: >How does one get mail into news. For example, say I want to have a >group called honeywell.cad.parts which as all the mail sent to >cad-parts@hi-csc.uucp. The quick way (the way we used to do it) is to have a line in hi-csc's /usr/lib/aliases file that looks like like: cad-parts: "|/usr/lib/news/recnews honeywell.cad.parts" but that requires maintaining an alias for each newsgroup you want to gateway. The way we do it here now (thanks to some gross but inspired sendmail hacquery by Karl Kleinpaste) involves, among other things, the following excerpts from sendmail.cf: CNcis osu oh comp misc news rec sci soc talk unix-pc ddn alt R$=N.$*<@$=W.$D> $#news$:$1.$2 Mnews, P=/usr/lib/news/recnews, F=DFMls, M=65535, A=recnews $u The rest of the sendmail.cf-based implementation is left as an exercise for the reader :-) -- Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277 bob@ohio-state.{arpa,csnet} or ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!bob soon: bob@cis.ohio-state.edu
sa@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Alter) (12/13/87)
In article <38fe15a9.4580@hi-csc.UUCP> giebelhaus@hi-csc.UUCP (Timothy R. Giebelhaus) writes: >How does one get mail into news. For example, say I want to have a >group called honeywell.cad.parts which as all the mail sent to >cad-parts@hi-csc.uucp. Most mailers support aliases which can be programs or files as well as just people. Set up an alias which will direct your mail into the inews program like this: cad-parts: "|/usr/lib/news/inews -n honeywell.cad.parts -h" This way, people just mail postings to "cad-parts" using their favorite mail-interface, and the article appears in the newsgroup. -- Steve Alter ...!{csun,rdlvax,trwrb,psivax}!ttidca!alter or alter@tti.com Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica CA (213) 452-9191 x2541
merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes) (12/15/87)
In article <1545@ttidca.TTI.COM>, sa@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Alter) writes: > Set up an alias which will direct your mail into the > inews program like this: > > cad-parts: "|/usr/lib/news/inews -n honeywell.cad.parts -h" This will usually work, but can cause some problems with header lines. The alias should be: cad-parts: |/usr/lib/news/recnews honeywell.cad.parts Recnews strips those headers that do not belong in a news article, then hands the article off to inews. -- David S. Hayes, The Merlin of Avalon PhoneNet: (202) 694-6900 UUCP: *!uunet!cos!hqda-ai!merlin ARPA: ai01@hios-pent.arpa
jpd@usl-pc.UUCP (DugalJP) (12/18/87)
In article <1545@ttidca.TTI.COM> sa@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Alter) writes: ... >just people. Set up an alias which will direct your mail into the >inews program like this: > >cad-parts: "|/usr/lib/news/inews -n honeywell.cad.parts -h" Don't forget to also add the alias: owner-cad-parts: worry-wart so that login-ID 'worry-wart' will receive mail that could not be delivered to cad-parts. This happens when, for example, incoming mail lacks a Subject line. -- James Dugal, N5KNX USENET: ...!{ut-sally,killer}!usl!jpd Associate Director Internet: jpd@usl.edu Computing Center US Mail: PO Box 42770 Lafayette, LA 70504 University of Southwestern LA. Tel. 318-231-6417 U.S.A.