news2mail - a channel script to gateway news into email.
SYNOPSIS
news2mail
DESCRIPTION
news2mail runs as a channel process underneath innd. It is
set up as channel feed in newsfeeds, with different mail
ing 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 news
feeds 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:
n2m!:!*:Tc,Ac,Wn*:<PREFIX specified with --prefix at configure>/bin/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, Organiza
tion 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 This is revision 1.2, dated
1998/12/09.
ctlinnd(8), inn.conf(5), innd(8), newsfeeds(5), shlock(1).
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