johnb@hobbes.mdc.com (John Breen) (06/24/91)
Well, I've just about got a local news system going, with this mailing list
fed into it, but one thing worries me:
I've got c-news & rn installed, a mail alias for the mailing list defined as
follows:
ml-apollo: "|/bin/awk '!(/^From / && NR==1)' |/usr/lib/news/inews -h -n comp.sys.apollo"
and the newsgroup designated as moderated, as follows (in mailpaths):
comp.sys.apollo apollo@engin.umich.edu
Each of these appear to work fine separately (although I've only tested the
mail alias manually). However, I see a potential for an infinite loop: the
mail to ml-apollo will go to inews, which will mail it to
apollo@engin.umich.edu, which will send it back to ml-apollo, ...
I've tested it by manually mailing to ml-list, and it did apparently get sent
to apollo@engin.umich.edu. Is inews smart enough to figure out when the mail
is coming from the moderator, or do I have a potential problem here? If the
latter, how should this be done with cnews?
[BTW, I know this is more appropriate for other newsgroups, but this mailing
list is the only "external" news source I have].
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John A. Breen | johnb@hobbes.mdc.com
McDonnell Douglas Missile Systems Co. |
Tel: (314)234-4341johnb@HOBBES.MDC.COM (John Breen) (06/25/91)
In a previous posting, I wrote: >Well, I've just about got a local news system going, with this mailing list >fed into it, but one thing worries me [...] I see a potential for an infinite >loop: the mail to [the mail alias] will go to inews, which will mail it to >apollo@engin.umich.edu, which will send it back to [the alias], ... Well, it looks like I do have a few problems, since my posting popped up twice (honest, I only sent it once). However, I don't even have the mailing list going to the alias yet, so it's not the infinite loop I was worried about :-). The From: line really confuses me... From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde !elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.arc.nasa.gov!aplvax!johnb@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (John Breen) If I understand the "bang" syntax, this is saying that I sent it from 'aplvax', which is wrong (in fact, my host isn't even in the header). All I did was post with rn. Anyone got any ideas? (refer to the original posting for how I've got some things set up). Anyway, I think I've found the answer to my original question - the mail loop is avoided by using '-a' with inews (which adds an 'Approved:' line to the message); my thanks to David Burren for giving me a hint many weeks ago. I'm really sorry about all of trouble I'm causing - hopefully, I'll have this all fixed soon.