mailpost(8)

1MAILPOST(8)               InterNetNews Documentation               MAILPOST(8)
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NAME

6       mailpost - feed an email message into a news group
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SYNOPSIS

9       mailpost [-a addr] [-b database] [-c wait-time] [-d distribution] [-f
10       addr] [-m mailing-list] [-p port] [-r addr] [-x header[:header...]]
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DESCRIPTION

14       The mailpost program reads a properly formatted email message from
15       stdin and feeds it to inews for posting to a news server. newsgroups is
16       a whitespace-separated list of group names to which to post the arti‐
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19       Before feeding the article to inews, it checks that the article has not
20       been seen before, and it changes some headers (cleans up some address
21       headers and puts ``X-'' in front of unknown headers).
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23       If the article has been seen before (mailpost records the message-id of
24       each articles it handles), then the article will be silently dropped.
25       Other errors will cause the article to be mailed to the newsmaster.
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27       Normally mailpost is run by sendmail(8) via an alias entry:
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29       local-mail-wreck-bikes: "⎪<pathbin in inn.conf>/mailpost
30                -d local local.mail.rec.bicycles.racing"
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OPTIONS

33       -a addr
34           If the -a flag is used the value given is added to the article as
35           an Approved header.
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37       -b database
38           If the -b flag is used, then it defines the location of the data‐
39           base used to store the message ids of articles sent on. This is to
40           prevent articles looping around if a news to mail gateway sends
41           them back here. This option may be required if the mailpost process
42           doesn't have write access to the news tmp directory (the value of
43           pathtmp in inn.conf(5)).
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46           The -c flag indicates a length of time to sleep before posting.  If
47           duplicate messages are received in this interval (by any instance
48           of mailpost using the same database), the article is only posted
49           once, but with Newsgroups: header modified to crosspost the article
50           to all indicated groups.
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52       -d distribution
53           If the -d flag is used the value given is added to the article as a
54           Distribution: header.
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57           The -f flag is a synonym for the -r flag.
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59       -m mailing-list
60           If the -m flag is used the value given is added to the articles in
61           a Mailing-List: header, if such a header doesn't already exist.
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64           Specifies the port on which nnrpd is listening, used for article
65           posting.  If given, -p is passed along to inews.
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68           A heuristic is used to determine a reasonable value for the Path:
69           header.  The -r flag indicates what to use if no other value can be
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73           A colon-separated list of additional headers which should be
74           treated as known headers; these headers will be passed through to
75           inews(1) without having "X-" prepended.
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HISTORY

78       Written by Paul Vixie long ago and then hacked up by James Brister for
79       INN integration.
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81       $Id: mailpost.8 6658 2004-01-25 23:44:19Z rra $
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FILES

84       <pathdb in inn.conf>/mailpost-msgid.db  database file
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BUGS

87       Is lacking in configurability.
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