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NEWS2MAIL(8)


NAME

  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 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:

       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.


HISTORY

  news2mail was written by Brian Kantor. This man page was written by James
  Brister.  This is revision 1.3, dated 2002/12/03.


SEE ALSO

  ctlinnd(8), inn.conf(5), innd(8), newsfeeds(5), shlock(1).

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