Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 10:36:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Read <dread@texas.net> To: Terry Todd <tlt@badger.tltodd.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: news2mail programs Message-ID: <XFMail.991020103623.dread@texas.net> In-Reply-To: <19991020083459.A566@badger.tltodd.com>
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On 20-Oct-99 Terry Todd wrote: > Mathias, > > > > On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 08:53:48AM +0200, Matthias Teege wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 12:43:13PM -0500, Terry Todd wrote: >> > >> > >> > Can anyone recommend a news2mail program? I have tried Alex Schnitman's <snipage> >> checkout the cyrus mailserver in the ports. >> Matthias >> > I checked out cyrus. I downloaded it and installed it and then > looked at the cyrus doc pages on the web. > > From: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/cyrus-overview.html#news > "The IMAP server can export netnews newsgroups as IMAP mailboxes. > This is done by creating a partition named news which points to > the news spool directory and arranging for the IMAP server's > auxiliary databases to be maintained. The server software includes > programs for integrating with the INN netnews server. The following > information assumes working knowledge of the INN netnews server." > > Which is way way more complicated than what I am looking for. > > Thanks anyway, > Terry Todd you might try using 'suck' to pull the articles to a tmp directory, then cron a script to mail em (bogus shell psudeo-code follows): cd /var/tmp/news files=`ls -t | tail -50` for art in $files do sendmail myaddr@comain.com < $art rm $art done Regards, --- Don Read dread@calcasieu.com EDP Manager dread@texas.net Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX -- the Y2K bug is not a problem. W2K however ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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