Anyone try this on 3.7.2?

It seems to work as one way communication as I see with my board running 3.7.2... It is importing data from NNTP however it is unable to send it, errors like,

[quote="error"]Result: 441 (629) Article Rejected -- Ill-formed message id '<User.Name.3bzrtn@nntp@mydomain.com>'</quote>

can any one help as how can the post posted in the forum can also be sent to the NNTP news group ??

Running on 2 3.7.2 installs with no problems.

Does this use Akismet moderation? I wanted to avoid spams getting downloaded from nntp servers.

Will this work along with Akismet module or any other spam blocking modules?

Unfortunately no. I`m still tweaking it for my own board, added alot of changes, and the akismet one is probably one that I will need to look into.

eagerly waiting....i hate spammers.

Wow, these are quite complicated installation instructions.. No possibility of using the otherwise nice "Upload Plugins" tool from the vbulletin adminCP? All this editing of index.php makes me uneasy.. Also, I don't see any mention of the /XML filder located in the includes folder - if it should be uploaded or not..

Well, you just upload files and that`s what. The xml you upload adds the menus required in admincp. What`s hard about that ? :)

Hehe, well if it's just that then... Just thought I saw some instructions telling me to edit code in files etc.. But ok, if it's just uploading files I'll stop being a cry-baby :)

If you aren't already using it, I thought I'd mention that the new Automatic Thread Tagger mod works great in conjunction with the NNTP Gateway mod and vb's tagging system.

The mod can go back and tag all of your prior Usenet messages plus automatically tag new incoming Usenet messages using vb's cron (not to mention RSS feeds as well).

Check it out as all your Usenet forums can now be auto tagged! -- Rik

I would be willing to pay to have this mod updated to work properly. (plus some additional features) Please contact me if interested.

Awesome mod. Thanks for those who created / modified this. I'd be interested in helping improve suggestions and whatever else is needed.

Awesome and still works for me on 3.7

Has anyone install this mod and it works fine with Google groups or Yahoo groups? I can't get it done :(!

[QUOTE=HappyAndyK;1566178]It seems to work as one way communication as I see with my board running 3.7.2... It is importing data from NNTP however it is unable to send it, errors like,

Yes i'm running 3.7.3 and get that message too!, i also need to know how to fix it.

This mod is intended to be used with newsgroups, not google or yahoo groups. Different things ....

The message-id is, at it says ill-formed. If I'm not completely wrong, you - that have problems with this - should look at the "Email address domain"-setting, in your configuration and skip the first part (the "@nntp"-thing).

I dont get an error message when posting in the forum but when the cron job takes place none of the forum posts appear in the newsgroup (msnews.microsoft.com microsoft.public.excel.programming) do you know how to fix this?

This is an error everyone is waiting a fix for.

Exactly how does your configuration for microsoft.public.excel.programming looks like? Have you combined both the newsserver and the newsgroup on the same row?

Server line: msnews.microsoft.com
and newsgroup/mailinglist email : microsoft.public.excel.programming nothing else!

hi

can I supply a date and/or a number of messages to download a limited number of messages as start point? maybe modifing the setlastmessage.php file?

thank you

What happens if you run the script in debug-mode after a post?

If you can access the newsgroup with a newsreader, you can pick the "Xref"-header and set the startpoint by editing the "Last message"-setting in the config for vB. But I don't know if you can limit the number of messages to download. All messages after the startpoint you set will be downloaded, as I know it.

Tomas, thanks for taking the time to reply again, i have very little experience so could you tell me what you mean here?

Make a post and then use the gatewayscript like this - http://your-forum-url/gateway.php?debug=1 - and see what it says.

when will the modification final developed ?

This is what it says for all of the ng's i have set to read, it says posting allowed but the post doesnt reach the newsgroup?

Quick update on the debug, i ran it again and got this:

I fixed the @@thecodecage.com but it still doesnt post to the newsgroups

Do you get any errormessages or empty answers from the server? I tried to post a testmessage directly on the server and it took a little time before it was propagated.

The post just doesn't appear in the newsgroup!, i don't know how else to explain it.

It seems i can post in the other microsoft newgroups from my forum but just not to microsoft.public.excel.programming any ideas on a work around?

What happens if you post with a newsreader? Does it work?

Yep i can post fine using outlook , its quite strange!

Quick update: it seems that if i make a post in the forum whilst viewing the forum through firefox it posts to the microsoft newsgroup if i use IE it does not anyone know of how to tweak the code to accommodate both?

Ehm.. question: does anybody get this working with the nntp server autentication?

Thank you very much! (and sorry for cross posting..)

I have a serius problem: script post 2 time the same post in the same thread! What happens?

Thank you!!!

Fixed. It was simple due the script run twice..

Does anybody have do a shell script to avoid this?
Thanks!

It should check whether or not its running via the is_running variable in the NNTP Settings of the control panel. However, I've had what you describe happen to me some years ago. What we have done since as a preventative measure is to do a quick restart of apache (just takes a second) and that makes sure any of its processes are killed.

-- Rik

Via our killfile we have blocked all urls over the years to prevent spam. Since our killfile has grown so large and probably blocks most spam and trash anyway, we are considering removing the blockage of urls from it and then post-process posts via mysql to remove any "non-approved" urls. We're probably going to try this on one newsgroup initially.

Our idea is to tag approved messages with some sort of marker at the last byte of the post if the url is OK. If the marker is not there and a url exists, the post would later get deleted.

Is anyone doing something like this with the mod? If so, what are your thoughts on the the matter (or am I just opening up a floodgate of spam)?

Thanks. -- Rik