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6 news2mail - Channel script to gateway news into e-mails
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9 news2mail
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12 news2mail runs as a channel process underneath innd. It is set up as
13 channel feed in newsfeeds, with different mailing-lists as funnel
14 entries pointing to it (see below); news2mail expects the token of an
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17 news2mail uses the configuration file pathetc/news2mail.cf to map
18 mailing-list names to e-mail addresses. news2mail causes the mail
19 transport agent (usually sendmail, as set in the mta parameter in
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21 attacks by mass postings). You must run "sendmail -q" periodically to
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25 The configuration file format is simple: comments (starting with a hash
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30 field is optional: it sets the envelope-from address (for instance a
31 list member's address; if not set, it defaults to the "news" user).
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39 news2mail!:!*:Ac,Tc,Wn*:<pathbin>/news2mail
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44 list-big-red-ants/lists.ucsd.edu\
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48 Please note the use of "Ap" and the exclusion of the list owner domain
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50 site name used in the newfeeds entry for a mailing-list (above
51 "list-big-red-ants") must be the same as the first field in an entry in
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54 # newsfeeds-name list-to-address [list-sender-address]
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61 pathetc/news2mail.cf
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66 The news2mail program is set up as a funnelled channel in newsfeeds,
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68 matching funnelled feeds will result in a single call to the script.
69 Therefore, since only one mail is sent, crossposts are not currently
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74 news2mail was written by Brian Kantor in 1998. This man page was
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