stevo@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Steve Groom) (08/31/90)
I'm looking for some software (or ways to make sendmail and C news) that will do bidirectional relaying of articles between a newsgroup and mailing list. We have the mail->news direction set up using recnews, what I really need is the reverse. I know this stuff exists, I just can't find it anywhere. Any pointers would be welcomed. Thanks. Steve Groom, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA stevo@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov {ames,usc}!elroy!stevo
brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) (08/31/90)
In article <1990Aug31.002617.3791@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> stevo@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Steve Groom) writes: >I'm looking for some software (or ways to make sendmail and C news) >that will do bidirectional relaying of articles between a newsgroup >and mailing list. We have the mail->news direction set up using >recnews, what I really need is the reverse. Actually, the news to mail direction is the trivial direction. You just put a line in the sys file like: dummy:group::headermailer mailing-list <%s (chose flags appropriate to your plans.) headermailer is a mailer that takes headers, like sendmail. The hard part is mapping back. Recnews does it too simply. You must rebuild the "References:" chain on outgoing articles. To do this, you need to look at "In-Reply-to" header lines in the mail, and then look up that ID and build a reference chain from it, or failing that, look up the subject in a database of subjects, dig out a message-id and build a References chain from that. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473