bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) (09/12/89)
We have a local (campus-wide) mailing list that we'd like to gateway to the usenet (for local distribution only). The list is unmoderated, and we simply need to take all the new articles on the usenet side & mail them to the rest of the list and take incoming mail and post it on the usenet. We don't need anything fancy. It should be pretty easy, I think, but I'm not sure how exactly to proceed. I would appreciate any pointers in how to set this up on our system. We're running B-news and NNTP. Thanks in advance. -- David Bernholdt bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu Quantum Theory Project bernhold@ufpine.bitnet University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 904/392 6365
bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) (09/13/89)
In article <663@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> I wrote: > >We have a local (campus-wide) mailing list that we'd like to gateway >to the usenet (for local distribution only). To post incoming mail to usenet, add an alias for sendmail which says something like: post-mailing-list: "|/usr/lib/news/recnews news.group.name" and add "post-mailing-list" to the subscription list for the mailing list. Recnews is part of the standard B-news release and there are both man page and helpful comments in the code. To mail incoming usenet articles, add a line like this to your news sys file: mail1:world,usa,na,fl,uf,news.group.name::/usr/ucb/mail mailing-list@address This has a few more problems associated with it: The news header appears as part of the body of the message, and the mail program can't make any use of the information therein. Thus, no "Subject:" for the mail message unless you set one in the sys file. Also, the "From:" is probably not quite what you want. Some improvements could probably be made to the usenet->mail transformation: Perhaps feeding it to sendmail with a -f flag to set the "From:" name. It may also be necessary to move around or modify (?) the headers so that sendmail will pick up on them. (I tried simply feeding the article to sendmail unmodified and still treated the whole thing as text -- I haven't done anything fancy yet). My thanks to kim@kannel.lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen), Rich Salz <rsalz@bbn.com>, and liz@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Elizabeth Zaenger) for their help with this. -- David Bernholdt bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu Quantum Theory Project bernhold@ufpine.bitnet University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 904/392 6365
kim@kannel.lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) (09/14/89)
In article <671@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) writes:
From: bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt)
Date: 13 Sep 89 16:28:37 GMT
Organization: University of Florida Quantum Theory Project
Some improvements could probably be made to the usenet->mail
transformation: Perhaps feeding it to sendmail with a -f flag to set
the "From:" name. It may also be necessary to move around or modify
(?) the headers so that sendmail will pick up on them. (I tried
simply feeding the article to sendmail unmodified and still treated
the whole thing as text -- I haven't done anything fancy yet).
You need to be a trusted user for sendmail and feed the article (with a To:
line) to 'sendmail -t'.
I had this problem at first, but then I tried it as a trusted user (defined
with T in sendmail.cf) and it worked fine.
Kim
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In article <671@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> bernhold@orange19 (David E. Bernholdt) writes: >Recnews is part of the standard B-news release and there are >both man page and helpful comments in the code. We use recnews here too, but I think it has a couple of problems: - it throws away the original Message-ID, causing inews to generate a local one - not very nice if you want to reply to an "article" - it sometimes gets confused about the sender address, which ends up like From: \@local.host.address. I haven't had opportunity to identify the exact circumstances under which that happens. It may be fixed by patch #17, though - we're currently at #14... Improvements to recnews or alternative suggestions are welcome... >mail1:world,usa,na,fl,uf,news.group.name::/usr/ucb/mail mailing-list@address >Some improvements could probably be made to the usenet->mail >transformation: Perhaps feeding it to sendmail with a -f flag to set >the "From:" name. It may also be necessary to move around or modify >(?) the headers so that sendmail will pick up on them. (I tried >simply feeding the article to sendmail unmodified and still treated >the whole thing as text -- I haven't done anything fancy yet). I've had zero problems with using /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -oeq mailing-list@address - headers are in the right place, the From: is untouched, but normally the Sender: and From_/Return-Path: will be set to news or somesuch, as expected. --Per Hedeland per@erix.ericsson.se or per%erix.ericsson.se@uunet.uu.net or ...uunet!erix.ericsson.se!per