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MAILPOST(8)		  InterNetNews Documentation		   MAILPOST(8)

NAME
       mailpost - feed an email message into a news group

SYNOPSIS
       mailpost [-a addr] [-b database] [-c wait-time] [-d distribution] [-f
       addr] [-m mailing-list] [-p port] [-r addr] [-x header[:header...]]
       [newsgroups ...]

DESCRIPTION
       The mailpost program reads a properly formatted email message from
       stdin and feeds it to inews for posting to a news server. newsgroups is
       a whitespace-separated list of group names to which to post the arti‐
       cle.

       Before feeding the article to inews, it checks that the article has not
       been seen before, and it changes some headers (cleans up some address
       headers and puts ``X-'' in front of unknown headers).

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

       Normally mailpost is run by sendmail(8) via an alias entry:

       local-mail-wreck-bikes: "⎪<pathbin in inn.conf>/mailpost
		-d local local.mail.rec.bicycles.racing"

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

       -b database
	   If the -b flag is used, then it defines the location of the data‐
	   base used to store the message ids of articles sent on. This is to
	   prevent articles 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)).

       -c wait-time
	   The -c flag indicates a length of time to sleep before posting.  If
	   duplicate messages are received in this interval (by any instance
	   of mailpost using the same database), the article is only posted
	   once, but with Newsgroups: header modified to crosspost the article
	   to all indicated groups.

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

       -f addr
	   The -f flag is a synonym for the -r flag.

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

       -p port
	   Specifies the port on which nnrpd is listening, used for article
	   posting.  If given, -p is passed along to inews.

       -r addr
	   A heuristic is used to determine a reasonable value for the Path:
	   header.  The -r flag indicates what to use if no other value can be
	   determined.

       -x header[:header...]
	   A colon-separated list of additional headers which should be
	   treated as known headers; these headers will be passed through to
	   inews(1) without having "X-" prepended.

HISTORY
       Written by Paul Vixie long ago and then hacked up by James Brister for
       INN integration.

       $Id: mailpost.8 6658 2004-01-25 23:44:19Z rra $

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

BUGS
       Is lacking in configurability.

SEE ALSO
       active(5), inn.conf(5), nnrpd(8), uwildmat(3).

INN 2.4.2			  2004-01-25			   MAILPOST(8)
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