help with internal mail2news setup.

[Chris Johnson]

Hi Robert,
    thanks for the reply.
Here's what I need to do:
    I'd like to have an email address from the mail.server get posted to 
a news.server. The news server is only for archiving mail from this 
account (no other newsgroups or feeds).
This is what I have working:
    I can connect and post articles from mozill's newsgroup client. The 
articles show up in spool/articles like every thing is working fine.
    I'm allowed to send a email message using mail2news.pl from the 
mail.server to the news.server. However, those messages never show up on 
the newsgroup. They sit in spool/incoming .

We have some differences in our setup from what you described but I have 
the mail.server pipe the message through mail2news.pl and the message 
get into the spool/incoming.
I know nothing about innd and haven't really used a newsgroup other than 
trying to get this setup so I'm sure I missing something simple. Most of 
the documentation I've found is outdated and generally describes complex 
setups that I don't need and can't relate to what I'm doing.
Any help would be great.
TIA,
chrisj

Robert Joosten wrote:

>Hi Chris,
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>>I'm having a problem with getting my mail2news working.
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>Well, I run inn 2.3.5 with mta postfix 2.x.
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>My /etc/postfix/aliases looks like:
>mail2newsnewsgroupname:	"|/usr/local/news/bin/mail2news.pl newsgroup.name"
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>A snippet of /usr/local/news/bin/mail2news.pl:
>$news_poster_program = "/usr/local/news/bin/rnews";
>$news_poster_options = "-r localhost";
>$postinghost = "localhost";
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>Make sure newsgroup.name is configured correctly (in active-file, not
>moderated, etc).
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>I assume your INN runs properly and nntp-clients can post the way they
>should.
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>Hth.
>Rj
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