gopherhockey,

can you tell us exactly what you did to stop that ?

look up

Im running 2.2.6 (not sure if that matters), I setup a test box and added this hack to it. It sucks posts in ok, but posts made to the newsgroup do not appear on the groups. Is this a knowsn problem, it's making me mad!!!

Take a look, http://jf.myftp.org the forums is called TEST under the General Forums

After you post the reply, go into your admin control panel and click on "Manual Syncronisation". What does the screen say? Are you getting any error messages? I'm using it on my new site and don't have any problems.

It says it is posted ok!

Im using ultrafeed news server if that is important...

I could be the news service you use. I have seen some that will take several hours for a post to show up after it was made.

Gilby set up a test server here that you can use to make sure that everything is working. Try that and see if the posts show up.

Ive been having issues with my news provider over spam messages being posted to usenet thru my board. Do you guys moderate your outgoing posts? Does it work well with the hack?

I can't get past gateway.php connecting to the server. It doesn't import or export messages at all. I've read throught his thread as much as possible, what can be missing?

What news server are you using? Are you getting any error messages? If you are trying to use your ISP's news server they may have it set so that it will not accept connections from outside the network.

Try the test server posted here and see if you can connect to it. If you can, then it's your news provider.

If you still can't get it working, PM me and I'll see if I can help.

Ok, I sort of have this working. Few questions:

1. Is there a way of making the reply address the same for any user (e.g. usenet@thrill-seekers.net) and then having a cron job checking this account every x mins and then importing any replies to threads into the newsgroup forum? Im sure someone must have done this already.

2. Have a weird issue, I post to free.teranews.com, in outlook express I can't see my posts on either teranews.com or ultrafeed.com servers but they show up on my ISP's server?!? Can anyone see a post on rec.aviation.hang-gliding ?

3. How regularly can I have a cron job running gateway.php without making the server slow down to a halt and being thrown out by my host (powweb)? 5mins, 10mins? If you want to see the size of the newsgroups I will be using then take a look at http://jf.myftp.org (my test box). I guess I will have about 6-7 other groups on my live site all of similar size.

4. What is the best way to stop my DB going over my 250MB server disk limit? I guess I should clear out posts once they are 30 days old or so, VBAdmin doesn't do this so I guess I will have to run a cron job, are there any good scripts already out there for this purpose?

Thanks.

Justin

Gilby, this is so great! Thank you so much for this #1 Hack!!!

When I do Manual Sync all goes fine but if put address in browser I get a promt box to save or open gateway.php??? When I say open I get an error and it opens notepad. Why would this be happening?

So how do you setup the email features? There doesn't appear to be instructions! Thanks!

Now I am getting this issue as well... any help?

Nevermind... I searched in the class.POP3.php3 file for the noop line. There's a sequence that says: Changes are where there are ***.

}
$this->FP = $fp;
$this->BANNER = $this->parse_banner($reply);
$this->RFC1939 = $this->noop();
if($this->RFC1939)
{
$this->ERROR = "POP3: premature NOOP OK, NOT an RFC 19$
*** //$this->quit();
*** return true; }
return true;

I have my usenet forums moderated on all posts, yet the script is posting messages to usenet anyway. How can I avoid spamming usenet? I've asked this question before but am now stumped, any help anyone?

Is there a way to show the poster's email address in the forum post? Perhaps at the start of the message?

"From <email here>"

Thanks!

Also, how do I disable sends from the forum to the newsgroups?

MaXxed and peterjun,

You might want to look at the usenet hack located at:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=22599

It allows you to do what both of you are asking for. It works better for me than this hack does.

VB 2.3
When I run gateway.php I'm getting
"Invalid SQL: UPDATE forum SET replycount=replycount+1,threadcount=threadcount+1, lastpost='1046023251',lastpost er='Peter' WHERE forumid IN ()
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ')' at line 1
"
heeeeeeeeeeelp
Thanks

Mood

does this hack work with

version: 2.3.0

or

version : 2.2.9?

..thanx

jordan willms

works with both 2.2.9 and 2.3.0

works with both 2.2.9 and 2.3.0

I've been using this nntp hack since gilby originally made it, and its worked with every vbulletin since 2.2.3

The email one I dont know, but to stop your board from sending posts onto usenet, just set up the access masks to allow people to view the posts or threads, but not post/reply/create etc.

For the email you can try this, you need to edit a entry in the database, in the table: nntp_settings

The title is: Email address domain

Change the value: timelimit.yourserver.com
To what ever you need, I dont know if this works 100% but by the look of it, and what the description of it says, it should do.

As for the cron job, I do it a simple way and use MS Task scheduler, just point it to iexplorer.exe (or what ever browser) like this:

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" http://theborg.cjb.net/borg/forums/gateway.php

The above is all one line, you can see if it works via wacking it in your RUN command line from the Start Menu (for us Windows users)

Have it as often as you like, I have it every 20 minutes.

Use the Search system


Thanks

See my post above, or click on this link

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...862#post386862

Its your IE settings you need to reset them and it should work.

works under 2.3.0 for me.

I've recently changed servers, and I am now getting this error when I try and pick up POP3 posts:

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

The only thing that is different is the server environment, ie its a different webserver.

Any ideas on how to fix this, so I can use the POP3 function again and feed my mailing lists to the forums?

Any tricks or advice regarding avoiding the gateway.php from timing out when importing a large amount of posts?

I notice that some users have figured a way to do this. Any suggestions?

increasin the timeout in php.ini ?

It's okay, I got around it by using another news server. :)

It's okay, I got around it by using another news server. :)

It seems as if every 3 months my newsgroup gateway blows up on me. It has something to do with my news server rejecting the post, but it ACTUALLY accepts it. Well because on my end it thinks the message was rejected, it sends it again with the next newsgroup sync. And over and over again. with each new message. The only fix for this is to DELETE the newsgroup forum and recreate it from scratch, re-importing all the messages. Then a few months later the same thing happens.

Any idea how to stop this? The people in the newsgroup get REAL mad when it happens because the newsgroup gets flooded with massive duplicate posts.

Anyone found the solution to the:
POP3: premature NOOP OK, NOT an RFC 1939 Compliant server

because I cant use this hack till I get this resolved... which is a shame, because I like it to pull the email from a email mailing list.

Great hack and it's downloading the messages from the newsgroups just fine however I'm having problems with posts and replys.

When someone posts or replies it functions normally on the vbulletin side but the posting never seems to make it to the newsgroup itself..

Any ideas or am I missing something?

We cron the group every 10 minutes..

I pretty much have the same problem.

Depends on the newserver, but I've tried like 5 and no dice.

Ok one worked, don't know which one now.

Can we change the output on the newsgroup page? Like this message was posted with or by or from?

I'm leaving my post as is, so others may find the answer. The solution is in this thread

oops, no I didn't. I uploaded it and it says this

but nothing shows up in the forum

Does anyone have this hack installed as well as vbHome Lite? If so are the new posts from the newsgroups being updated on the front page?

Does anyone have this hack installed as well as vbHome Lite? If so are the new posts from the newsgroups being updated on the front page?

So, no one knows why it doesn't get past the gateway section and not post on the board?