Find the lines (around line 550) that start with "$signature .= " and change those to how you want the signature to be.

Thanks for the help. I had almost forgot about asking this.

I have two issues with this and would welcome some help :)

1. Using the graphical interface, I cant seem to move a newsgroup (rec.travel.australia+nz) - I think this may be due to the '+' in the name. When clicking on the groups settings, I just get blank fields.

2. How does this hack handle outgoing attachments? I have them disabled by default as I am using text groups, but I am curious what would happen.

Thanks for any/all help.
Max.

I am getting this after manual sync. what should I do?

1 group(s) gatewayed.
Could not connect to NNTP-serverLogging in to netnews.insightbb.com, group comp.graphics.apps.photoshop
Not connectedNot connected

Gilby,

I posted before aobut trying to use this hack to download some biniary groups, but I was having trouble with the uuencoded attachments. I've been looking for a way to solve this, and someone sent me here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.base64-decode.php

Would this work? I'm willing to pay for this if you can get it working. PM me with the details.

Thanks

I am testing the NNTP gateway to the public news server at inn.qnx.com and trying to pull all articles from the group "qdn.cafe" (less than 600 posts). it always fails after message number 562:

...
Getting message number 561: Thread found; 'Re: This is great....' from Bill Caroselli \(Q-TPS\)
Getting message number 562: Thread found; 'Re: This is great....' from Mario Charest

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 10 bytes) in /var/www/html/forums/admin/functions.php on line 1318

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 11 bytes) in Unknown on line 0
...

the php.ini has the default setup of 8M memroy. and I have installed the gui interface from GameCrash.

the posts in that newsgroup are all less than 1M. does the gateway code NOT release the memory after pulling each article? this means we will run out of 8M php allowed memory if we have many posts?
Is there a way to fix it without increasing the 8M limit?

Thanks!
Frank

Now it's getting worse!
I doubled memory_limit to 16M in php.ini and try to hit gateway.php again, this time it gets a few more posts:
...
Getting message number 568: Thread found; 'Re: This is great....' from Eric Norton
Getting message number 569: Thread found; 'Re: This is great....' from Mario Charest
<br>
<b>Fatal error</b>: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 644127 bytes) in <b>/var/www/html/forums/admin/functions.php</b> on line <b>1330</b><br>
<br>
<b>Fatal error</b>: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 0 bytes) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br>

The worst part is now if I go to the forums main page, I see all the duplicates!! it seems gateway.php doesn't know that it has already pulled some of the posts. It gets ALL posts again! Doesn't gateway.php updates the "last_post" count after successfully pulled ONE post? it seems gateway.php only updates the "last_post" count when it finishes polling all posts. If it fails (in my cases), it lost the opportunity to update the "last_post count.

Frank

In addition to the "last_post" count, I suggest we use the message-id from the post as a unique id to avoid duplicates. before we insert a new post, we do a select on msgid to make sure it is NOT a duplicate. if we index the msgid, this overhead should be trivial but the benefit is huge. You can import multiple times without worrying about duplicates. btw, we should probably raise the msgid to varchar(255) which is the largest that we can index I believe. we can have better unique-ness with 255 chars I hope.

Frank

Is there a problem with subscribing to a usenet thread and getting email notifications of replies? It doesnt seem to be working for me?

Hey Guys; great hack!
I got it to work with a test server but when I try to use my ISP's I get this and nothing else:

1 group(s) gatewayed.
Logging in to news.epix.net, group rec.arts.disney.parks

can this mean I am not getting into my server? I have my user name and password set up.

Hey Guys; great hack!
This is the error I get when I try to post a message?

Posting Message from Ryan C.: 500 What?
Posting Message from Ryan C.: 500 What?
Posting Message from Ryan C.: 500 What?
Posting Message from Ryan C.: 500 What?

What does that mean?

Nice hack! Easy to install, and works nicely. My only wish is to be able to set up a newsgroup or POP email that is read-only. That is, posts/emails are read and posted to the forum, but forum replies or new threads are not sent outside the forum. I'm thinking of a different value for the 'enabled' field, or via the use of the "undocumented" prefix.

Any volunteers to try to do this? If no takers, I might do it next weekend.

Jose,

I use the hack too, and love it. You should be able to set the news group to read only in the Forums & Moderators >> Permissions section of your admin panel. I haven't tried it for the news groups, but it should work.

Yeah, but I wanted to use it so that I could import resources (like from a moderated newsgroup), and give group members the ability to read and discuss them in the forum, without the replies leaving the forum. I looked at the code and it's not a difficult change to do. I'll probably do it and test it over the weekend and post here if anyone is interested.

Jose

Yes that would be a nice feature :) Let me know if you find out anything

I have the same problem - any Answers?

just installed this hack in order to archive some email lists and it works great - thanks. However, I've got one hurdle to overcome when it comes to automating the run of gateway.php. My board is off-limits to guest users, so trying to execute gateway.php without first logging into the board manually results in a "you are not logged in" page when the script tries to make all the posts. Is there any way to write a cron job that can both log into the forum and run gateway.php (from lynx)?

just installed this hack in order to archive some email lists and it works great - thanks. However, I've got one hurdle to overcome when it comes to automating the run of gateway.php. My board is off-limits to guest users, so trying to execute gateway.php without first logging into the board manually results in a "you are not logged in" page when the script tries to make all the posts. Is there any way to write a cron job that can both log into the forum and run gateway.php (from lynx)?

I'm having a bit of trouble.

What i've done is I've installed hamster to pull messages from various newsgroups onto my computer, then setup the addon to download these headers from my pc to the website (Basically my ISP has IP masked access that only allows my IP here to login, but not my websites IP)

My problem is when I run the gateway script, it goes for a few minutes then asks me to download the file? Did i mess something up?

I mean it is actually obtaining the headers and putting them in the forums, its just annoying to get that window.

I have a potential issue. I have been running this hack on my forums for a few months now without problems, it has been working excellently.

Today I have found that my news provider has suspended my posting privelages. This may imply that I will need to change providers.

Should I simply change providers (and the settings on the hack) - I am concerned that I will have thousands of duplicate posts on the first sync.

Any idea how I could make the transition painlessly?

I'm currently using this hack for newsgroups, and it works great. Now I'm trying to add a mailing list archive, and this is the error I am getting:

POP3: premature NOOP OK, NOT an RFC 1939 Compliant server

I love this hack. I use it to pull in several newsgroups too. I hope you are able to get the maillist to work. Please share if you do. :-)

Well, I can get it to work on my ISP's POP3 account, but not on the POP3 accounts on my server. I'm still trying to find out how to fix this.

I installed this hack and I love it but quoting a message is not done right at all.

Can this be fixed because quiting is very important using usenet ?

is this hack dead?
I noticed the author (Gilby) hadn't said a word in the forum for more than three months.
Lots of questions/suggestions left unanswered.

I think so. His last post was on 10-26-02.

Whenever i run gateway.php i always get an error, looks like a connection timeout. :confused:
It prompts me to download gateway.php, i get messages from 1999 until 2000, about 200K of data and then times out. :confused:
If i rerun gateway.php again, all messages are duplicated.
What am i missing? :help:

Whenever i run gateway.php i always get an error, looks like a connection timeout. :confused:
It prompts me to download gateway.php, i get messages from 1999 until 2000, about 200K of data and then times out. :confused:
If i rerun gateway.php again, all messages are duplicated.
What am i missing? :help:

Whenever i run gateway.php i always get an error, looks like a connection timeout. :confused:
It prompts me to download gateway.php, i get messages from 1999 until 2000, about 200K of data and then times out. :confused:
If i rerun gateway.php again, all messages are duplicated.
What am i missing? :help:

Are you talking about downloading messages from the year 1999 and 2000? How many messages are you trying to download?

About 27,000.
I get all the messages prior to June 2000, that's about 600 posts.
Then i get a message saying the connection to the host was reset.
I can't get any messages after June 2000. :(

About 27,000.
I get all the messages prior to June 2000, that's about 600 posts.
Then i get a message saying the connection to the host was reset.
I can't get any messages after June 2000. :(

About 27,000.
I get all the messages prior to June 2000, that's about 600 posts.
Then i get a message saying the connection to the host was reset.
I can't get any messages after June 2000. :(

About 27,000.
I get all the messages prior to June 2000, that's about 600 posts.
Then i get a message saying the connection to the host was reset.
I can't get any messages after June 2000. :(

Test

another test

It sounds like a problem with your news provider, not the script. One not though, if you are trying to do this on a shared server you do know that your host is going to drop you soon don't you? This mod can be very resource intensive. I'm on a dedicated server with dual PIII with 512 MB ram and a 27000 post dump will just about bring my server down.

It's a Dedicated Server.
The news server is news.php.net.

It's a Dedicated Server.
The news server is news.php.net.

You are never going to get it downloaded. It's just too much. I tried downloading php.general on a test server here at home with a P4 and 1 gig of ram and it choked on the amount of data. There are just too many posts there to download them all. Your best bet is to go back about 6 months and get a post number and enter that number for the last post number.