Re: mail 2 news gateways ?

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Kent Landfield (Kent_Landfield@sterling.com)
Wed, 7 Sep 94 9:51:00 CDT


> I note that I haven't seen an answer to Piero's first question, which
> is where mail->news gateway (software) can be obtained....

From the same document:
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12.1. Newsgate

Rich Salz has written a package named "newsgate" that is in wide
spread use for bidirectionally gatewaying articles posted to a
newsgroup into email. It is available in volume 24 of the nearest
comp.sources.unix archives such as

ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume24/newsgate
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume24/newsgate

His kit provides two programs for "linking" RFC822 Mail messages
and RFC 1036 Network News articles. Each half of the conversion
is handled by a different program, mail2news or news2mail. A few
utility programs are also included.

With these programs and the right set of mail aliases, news sys and
active file entries, it is possible to build any set of moderated,
unmoderated, one-way, or bi-directional gateways between any set of
news and mail groups and lists that you may need to support your
group.

[ The currently available version of newsgate, from comp.sources.unix ]
[ archives, does not work with INN. You just need to make a minor ]
[ change to the source. Change references to getdate() to parsedate()]
[ and use the parsedate() function that comes with the INN news ]
[ software. If you do not wish to do this, contact rsalz@uunet.uu.net ]
[ for a pre-patched version. ]

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