mail to news and vice versa

[Bill Davidsen]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Matthew Harrell wrote:

>         I'm looking to have a newsgroup and a mailing list attached.  I would
> like to have messages posted to the newsgroup go the the list and messages 
> posted to the list go to the group.  I've figured out how to do each part 
> with mailpost and news2mail but I'm not sure how to prevent a loop.  I can see
> solutions where I could stop it after the second message has gone to the list,
> but I would like to prevent any overlap.  Any ideas?  I'm relatively new to 
> inn so I'm sure I'm missing some tips and tricks.

One way is to make the n.g. moderated so all messages go to the list post
address. I never tried any of the stuff which comes with news, it wasn't
there when I started doing gateways back in Bnews days, but I just keep
the mail message-id and let the news server cope with dups, news does that
well. So everything goes into news first, and a split second later an
accepted article gets fed to a news2mail hack and mailed to the list.

There are lots of other ways to do it, and I think the docs for what comes
with INN discuss this.

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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.