From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 11:29:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D53837B401 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:29:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from distant-early-warning.masterplan.org (h68-144-20-87.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.20.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E469643E4A for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:29:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jason.George@ResourceChain.com) Received: from axe (laptop [192.168.4.9]) by distant-early-warning.masterplan.org (8.12.1/8.12.0) with SMTP id gAOJTF60018167 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 12:29:15 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200211241929.gAOJTF60018167@distant-early-warning.masterplan.org> From: Jason.George@ResourceChain.com (Jason George) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail to News software suggestions? Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:28:50 GMT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I want to read busy mailing lists with nn or trn. I have space to >store the messages as news articles locally. I'm looking for a >system that will take incoming list mail and deposit it in "newsgroups" >I create for them on this machine. I use procmail, so it would be >fine to pass off list mail messages to this system via procmail >recipes. I also hope to find an easy way to expire/delete articles >easily after I read them, individually or (more likely) in bulk >after each of my nn/trn sessions. Note that these pseudo-newsgroups >are for my use only and will not be seen outside of my system, so >a read article never need be kept at all, really, unless I decide >to keep an archive. Also, I do not handle "real" newsgroups here >at all (I don't have THAT much space); if I ever use nn/trn locally >to read real news, I'll find an NNTP server. > >Does anyone know a good way to do this? > http://tack.fukui-med.ac.jp/NetBSD/en/mail2news.html I've been very happy with this package. I gateway about 4000 list messages per day into INN and auto-expire them after 90 days. --J Jason George, P.Eng. Calgary, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message