david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) (05/14/89)
Short of hacking rmail on our site, what is a "good" way of solving
the following problem.
I run a BBS system and I want to "gateway" some messages between the
BBS and usenet. The way I do it now is that the messages are posted
by a deamon running as unax@bdt.UUCP (the BBS master UID). The
messages are posted with a "Reply-To" line of the form:
bbsuser@bdt.UUCP (BBS USER NAME)
where "BBS USER NAME" is the BBS UID (no relationship to a "real"
Unix UID).
When somebody replies via e-mail to one of these articles they
usually go to bbsuser@bdt.UUCP (but sometimes they go to unax).
I have a strange little beast that reads the mail and tries to figure
out what BBS user sent the article that this is a reply to. It does
this now by looking for a "In-Reply-To" or "References" line, and if
found, it then looks through the news history for that article.
If it finds that the article is still around, it scans the original
article to see who sent it on the BBS. If all this works, it sends
a BBS message to the original sender of the article containing the
inbound e-mail message.
Pretty convoluted huh? Is there a better way (no doubt there is)?
There is no way currently for the BBS user to send a private e-mail
message to the outside world (coming soon... maybe).
Thanks for any help.
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