meyer@cambium.uoregon.edu (David M. Meyer) (12/18/90)
Does anyone have a script that they like for injecting news from a mailing list (e.g., an alias) into a local news group (i.e., that does the "right" thing with headers, subject lines, etc)? Thanks, Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David M. Meyer Voice: 503/346-4394 Network Systems Analyst Internet: meyer@oregon.uoregon.edu Office of University Computing Bitnet: meyer@oregon University of Oregon UUCP: ...!uoregon!meyer 1225 Kincaid FAX: 503/346-4397 Eugene, OR 97403 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David M. Meyer Voice: 503/346-4394 Network Systems Analyst Internet: meyer@oregon.uoregon.edu Office of University Computing Bitnet: meyer@oregon University of Oregon UUCP: ...!uoregon!meyer 1225 Kincaid FAX: 503/346-4397 Eugene, OR 97403
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In article <MEYER.90Dec17124939@cambium.uoregon.edu> meyer@cambium.uoregon.edu (David M. Meyer) writes: > Does anyone have a script that they like for injecting > news from a mailing list (e.g., an alias) into a local > news group (i.e., that does the "right" thing with > headers, subject lines, etc)? > > Thanks, > Dave In its simplest form, all the program needs to do is strip the leading 'From ' header (without a colon) and feed it into inews -h... -- # Replace "newslist" with the phantom username that's on the mailing list # Replace "news.group" with the newsgroup name aliases: (for sendmail) newslist:"|/bin/sed 1d | /usr/lib/news/inews -h -n news.group" aliases: (for smail) newslist:"|/bin/sed 1d | /usr/lib/news/inews -h -f\"$SENDER\" -n news.group" -- I tend to lean a little harder on it by stripping out a few other headers, and thus use awk instead of sed. If the awk script is in /usr/lib/news... -- # Replace "newslist" with the phantom username that's on the mailing list # Replace "news.group" with the newsgroup name aliases: (for sendmail) newslist:"|/bin/awk -f /usr/lib/news/mail2news.awk | /usr/lib/news/inews -h -n news.group" aliases: (for smail) newslist:"|/bin/awk -f /usr/lib/news/mail2news.awk | /usr/lib/news/inews -h -f\"$SENDER\" -n news.group" -- -- cut into mail2news.awk -- # %W% %G% %U% # # mail2news.awk -- a utility to handle the headers in a mailfile for # posting as news # BEGIN { mysite = "your_uucp_node_name_here" # Tailor this line!! nuke[1] = "[Tt][Oo]:" nuke[2] = "[Cc][Cc]:" nuke[3] = "[Bb][Cc][Cc]:" nuke[4] = "[Rr][Ee][Cc][Ee][Ii][Vv][Ee][Dd]" nuke[5] = "[Ss][Tt][Aa][Tt][Uu][Ss]:" nuke[6] = ".*[Mm][Aa][Ii][Ll][Ee][Rr]" nuke[7] = "[Dd][Aa][Tt][Ee]:" nukes = 7 cont_nuke = 0 inheader = 1 # Until we get a null line } # # Once we're out of the header, just print the lines # inheader == 0 { print next } # # End of header? # $0 == "" { inheader = 0 print next } # # Delete mail's leading 'From ' header # NR == 1 && match($0, "[Ff][Rr][Oo][Mm] ") == 1 { print "Path:", mysite "!nobody" next } # # Continuation of a nuked header? # cont_nuke == 1 { first = substr($0, 1, 1) if ( first == " " || first == "\t" ) { next # Skip it -- it's a continuation } cont_nuke = 0 # Otherwise, turn off cont_nuke flag } # # Lines to cut? # { for ( i = 1; i <= nukes; i++ ) { if ( match($1, nuke[i]) == 1 ) { cont_nuke = 1 # Set cont_nuke flag for next line next # Don't print this one } } print } -- cut into mail2news.awk -- ...Kris -- Kristopher Stephens, | (408-746-6047) | krs@uts.amdahl.com | KC6DFS Amdahl Corporation | | | [The opinions expressed above are mine, solely, and do not ] [necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Amdahl Corp. ]
nrd@redwood22.cray.com (Neal Dalton) (12/20/90)
In article <d4a=02WLf9wm01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, krs@uts.amdahl.com (Kris Stephens [Hail Eris!]) writes: |> > Does anyone have a script that they like for injecting |> > news from a mailing list (e.g., an alias) into a local |> > news group (i.e., that does the "right" thing with |> > headers, subject lines, etc)? |> > |> > Thanks, |> > Dave |> |> In its simplest form, all the program needs to do is strip the leading |> 'From ' header (without a colon) and feed it into inews -h... |> |> -- |> # Replace "newslist" with the phantom username that's on the mailing list |> # Replace "news.group" with the newsgroup name |> aliases: (for sendmail) |> newslist:"|/bin/sed 1d | /usr/lib/news/inews -h -n news.group" |> aliases: (for smail) |> newslist:"|/bin/sed 1d | /usr/lib/news/inews -h -f\"$SENDER\" -n news.group" |> -- This wouldn't work on my site, because we have (the "brain-dead" :) inews that came with the NNTP release (I guess). It doesn't know any of the normal inews flags. So I got recnews from the B-news stuff and hack it until it worked. What I did in end I found out, for some reason our site needs the PATH: field. So I regerated the mail for News with recnews and piped it into inews. What may work is a awk/sed script that added the Newsgroup field and the Path: `whoami` to the mail headers piped into inews -h. If you have problems with the previous post make sure which inews you have and if you need Path:. Good luck and keep us informed of problem/solutions. ---- Neal /\ / _ / \|||/ Neal Dalton / \ / _ _\ / / \ Cray Research, inc / \/_</_(_/\_/ ( o o ) _________ 655-F Lone Oak Dr. \ ^ / / \ Eagan, MN 55121 \ 0 / < OH NO, ) Internet: nrd@cray.com \_/ \ not him!/ Fax: (612) 683-5599 uucp: uunet!cray!nrd \_______/ Phone: (612) 683-5607
news@spectrum.CMC.COM (12/20/90)
In article <MEYER.90Dec17124939@cambium.uoregon.edu> meyer@cambium.uoregon.edu (David M. Meyer) writes: > Does anyone have a script that they like for injecting > news from a mailing list (e.g., an alias) into a local > news group (i.e., that does the "right" thing with > headers, subject lines, etc)? In /usr/lib/aliases, I have a line like this to make a two-way gateway to a local newsgroup: ietf-hosts: "|grep -v '^From '|/usr/news/bin/inject/inews -h -n ietf.hosts -a Automatically" Reflector: (defined in /usr/news/lib/mailpaths) "ietf.hosts ietf-hosts@nnsc.nsf.net" Local incoming alias, see above. The grep command removed the unix-header line, which is not RFC-822. Works really well.
cluther@supernet.haus.com (Clay Luther) (12/20/90)
nrd@redwood22.cray.com (Neal Dalton) writes: >In article <d4a=02WLf9wm01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, krs@uts.amdahl.com (Kris Stephens [Hail Eris!]) writes: >|> > Does anyone have a script that they like for injecting >|> > news from a mailing list (e.g., an alias) into a local >|> > news group (i.e., that does the "right" thing with >|> > headers, subject lines, etc)? >Good luck and keep us informed of problem/solutions. I have posted our scripts that do this very thing to alt.sources. Package is called Gate. -- Clay Luther, Postmaster cluther@supernet.haus.com Harris Adacom Corporation cluther@enigma.haus.com Voice: 214/386-2356 MS 23, PO Box 809022, Dallas, Tx 75380-9022 Fax: 214/386-2159 Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited.
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In article <1990Dec19.230106.13613@spectrum.CMC.COM> news@spectrum.CMC.COM writes: >In /usr/lib/aliases, I have a line like this to make a two-way gateway to >a local newsgroup: > >ietf-hosts: "|grep -v '^From '|/usr/news/bin/inject/inews -h -n ietf.hosts -a Automatically" Watch out on this. It assumes that the inbound mail has no non-header lines starting with 'From ', which is not guaranteed. 'sed 1d' is the better approach since the first line will be the 'From ' in question. For true assuredness, awk ' $1 == "From" && NR == 1 { next } { print }' remembering, of course, to escape the $ and " characters inside the awk program for use in the aliases file. As an aside, I believe it's the rmail/smail/sendmail program with the task of appending a /usr/mail/$user file which inserts a > in front of '^From ' when it appears other than as line 1 of the header. That's certainly the case with smail, configured in the directors file by setting 'unix_from_hack'. Were it the sending-mail-engine's responsibility, it would wreck data mailed into programs, where the inserted character would alter the inbound data stream. (That last is, I admit, conjecture.) ..Kris -- Kristopher Stephens, | (408-746-6047) | krs@uts.amdahl.com | KC6DFS Amdahl Corporation | | | [The opinions expressed above are mine, solely, and do not ] [necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Amdahl Corp. ]
rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (12/22/90)
In <1990Dec19.230106.13613@spectrum.CMC.COM> news@spectrum.CMC.COM writes: >In /usr/lib/aliases, I have a line like this to make a two-way gateway to >a local newsgroup: > >ietf-hosts: "|grep -v '^From '|/usr/news/bin/inject/inews -h -n ietf.hosts -a Automatically" From my point of view, that is not a very good way to do things! This message shows why. -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net. Use a domain-based address or give alternate paths, or you may lose out.