NEWS2MAIL (8)
a channel script to gateway news into email.
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
news2mail
runs as a channel process underneath innd. It is set up as channel feed in
newsfeeds, with different mailing lists as funnel entries pointing to it (see
below).
news2mail
uses a config file
<pathetc\ in\ inn.conf>/news2mail.cf
to map mailing list names to email addresses.
news2mail
causes sendmail to queue the messages for later delivery (to avoid DOS attacks
by mass postings). You must run 'sendmail -q' periodically to get the queue
processed.
CONFIG FILE
The config file format is simple: comments (start with ``#'') and blank lines
are ignored. All other lines have two fields on them. The first is the list
name and is what innd uses (i.e. the site field of the entry in the newsfeeds
file). The second field is the actual email address to send the article to. In
the email message, the ``To'' header will have the mailing list name (i.e. the
first field)
# list-name address
big-red-ants@ucsd.edu big-red-ants-digest@ucsd.edu
news-software@ucsd.edu news-software-digest@ucsd.edu
a set of newsfeeds entries for these lists would be:
R$ <PREFIX specified with --prefix at configure>/bin
n2m!:!*:Tc,Ac,Wn*:\*(R$/news2mail
big-red-ants@ucsd.edu:rec.pets.redants.*:Tm:n2m!
news-software@ucsd.edu:news.software.nntp:Tm:n2m!
news2mail
strips most article headers from the article before mailing. It leaves: From, Subject
Date, Organization and Message-ID in there. It add a To header with the mailing
list name in it.
HISTORY
news2mail was written by Brian Kantor. This man pagewas written by James
Brister
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