mailpost - feed an email message into a news group


SYNOPSIS

       mailpost  [ -r addr ] [ -f addr ] [ -a addr ] [ -d distri­
       bution ] [ -m mailing-list ] [ -b database ] newsgroups


DESCRIPTION

       The mailpost program reads a properly formatted email mes­
       sage  from  stdin  and  feeds it to inews for posting to a
       news server. Before feeding the article to inews it checks
       that  the article has not been seen before, and it changes
       some headers (cleans some  address  headers  up  and  puts
       ``X-'' in front of unknown headers).

       If  the article has been seen before (mailpost records the
       message-id of all articles is handles),  the  the  article
       will  be  silently  dropped.  Other  errors will cause the
       article to be mailed to the newsmaster.

       Normally mailpost is run by sendmail via an alias entry:

              local-mail-wreck-bikes: "|<PREFIX specified with --prefix at configure>/bin/mailpost
                       -d local local.mail.rec.bicycles.racing"


OPTIONS

       -r     If the ``-r'' flag is used the program will use the
              given address as the Path header, if no other value
              can be determined.

       -f     The ``-f'' flag is a synonym for the ``-r'' flag.

       -a     If the ``-a'' flag is used the value given is added
              to the article as an Approved header.

       -d     If the ``-d'' flag is used the value given is added
              to the article as a Distribution header.

       m      If the ``-m'' flag is used the value given is added
              to  the  articles  in  a  Mailing-List header, if a
              Mailing-List header doesn't already exist.

       -b     IF the ``-b'' flag is used,  then  it  defines  the
              location  of the database used to store the message
              ids of articles sent on. This is to  prevent  arti­
              cles looping around if a news to mail gateway sends
              them back here. This option may be required if  the
              mailpost  process  doesn't have write access to the
              news  tmp  directory  (the  value  of  pathtmp   in
              inn.conf(5).


HISTORY

       Written by Paul Vixie long ago and then hacked up by James
       Brister for INN integration.  This  is  revision  1.2.2.1,



FILES

       <pathdb in inn.conf>/mailpost-msgid.db  database file


BUGS

       Is lacking in configurability.


SEE ALSO

       active(5), inn.conf(5), nnrpd(8), wildmat(3).


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