help with internal mail2news setup.

[Chris Johnson]

It's fixed..
thanks for your help.

fix:
mail2news.pl needed a Path: line
and rnews -U was run.
thanks again...
chrisj

Chris Johnson wrote:

>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 .
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>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the documentation I've found is outdated and generally describes complex 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
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>Robert Joosten wrote:
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>>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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