NEWS2MAIL(8)NEWS2MAIL(8)NAMEnews2mail - a channel script to gateway news into email.
SYNOPSISnews2mailDESCRIPTIONnews2mail 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' period‐
ically 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:
n2m!:!*:Tc,Ac,Wn*:<pathbin in inn.conf>/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.
HISTORYnews2mail was written by Brian Kantor. This man page was written by
James Brister. This is revision 5909, dated 2002-12-03.
SEE ALSOctlinnd(8), inn.conf(5), innd(8), newsfeeds(5), shlock(1).
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