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mailpost - feed an email message into a news group
mailpost
[ -r addr ] [ -f addr ] [ -a addr ] [ -d distribution ] [ -m mailing-list ] [
-b database ] newsgroups
The mailpost program reads a properly
formatted email message from stdin and feeds it to inews for posting to
a news server. Before feeding the article to inews it checks that the article
has not been seen before, and it changes some headers (cleans some address
headers up and puts ``X-'' in front of unknown headers).
If the article has been
seen before (mailpost records the message-id of all articles is handles),
the the article will be silently dropped. Other errors will cause the article
to be mailed to the newsmaster.
Normally mailpost is run by sendmail via
an alias entry:
local-mail-wreck-bikes: "|/mailpost
-d local local.mail.rec.bicycles.racing"
newsgroups cannot be multiple groups. Only one newsgroup name is allowed.
- -r
- If the ``-r'' flag is used the program will use the given address as
the Path header, if no other value can be determined.
- -f
- The ``-f'' flag is a
synonym for the ``-r'' flag.
- -a
- If the ``-a'' flag is used the value given is added
to the article as an Approved header.
- -d
- If the ``-d'' flag is used the value
given is added to the article as a Distribution header.
- -m
- If the ``-m'' flag
is used the value given is added to the articles in a Mailing-List header,
if a Mailing-List header doesn't already exist.
- -b
- IF the ``-b'' flag is used, then
it defines the location of the database used to store the message ids
of articles sent on. This is to prevent articles looping around if a news
to mail gateway sends them back here. This option may be required if the
mailpost process doesn't have write access to the news tmp directory (the
value of pathtmp in inn.conf(5)
.
Written by Paul Vixie long ago and
then hacked up by James Brister for INN integration. This is revision 1.2.2.3,
dated 2001/09/22.
<pathdb in inn.conf>/mailpost-msgid.db database file
Is
lacking in configurability.
active(5)
, inn.conf(5)
, nnrpd(8)
, wildmat(3)
.
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