This has been coverd somewhere within this very long thread. But here it is in short!

In the Function sendnews

find:
and repalce it with:
find:
and below it put:

Then find ( around line 643 )

and replace it with:


That will do it I believe.

Kevin

thanks for the reply but i dont think thats what im looking for..That would use the email they registered with i believe..Its doesnt seem to work with VB3 Gateway either.

I just want to remove the random numbers/letters in the email.

KGB.11h4mb@pokerhelper.com KGB.11g8ob@pokerhelper.com StopTheKicking.127uvy@pokerhelper.com

I would like it to be username@pokerhelper.com

Sorry,

I'm not using VB3 on my production boards, I dnd't relize that that is what you were using. Are you just trying to use a single email address for all posts? Or are you are you trying to just append the username to the @pokerhelper.com as if it were an emal address. Thus not exposing your users email address but not making it look like a made up address?

Kevin

it already puts the user name there.It wouldnt be a real addy.Just need to figure out how to remove the numbers/letters.

KGB.11g8ob@pokerhelper.com KGB is the user name for this one.It puts the period also.

Ok, Im pretty new to VBForums administration, and Im having a hard time figuring out the instructions:

3. Go into your database and modify the settings in the nntp_settings table. Descriptions are available in there, but currently it's not integrated with the vB admin control panel.

4. Go in and set up your newsgroups in the nntp_groups table.

What does that mean?

Nevermind...GOT IT! Jammin!

Great work on this hack guys! It worked on the first attempt although it does want to download a text file here too. Is there an easy way to stop this behaviour with IE6?

2 other questions:
The imported content isn't searchable yet, is it?
I haven't tried to actually create a post in the newgroup yet so I have no idea if this feature is already in, but is it possible to add a little signature to posts from my board? for example, "this message has been posted through www.mysite.com"?

Edit: another question about a little detail I noticed. I see that the amount of thread views by default equals the amount of posts in one thread. Is there an easy way to put these on 0 by default?

Sorry if any of these questions have been asked, it's a rather long thread ;)

I've been attempting to find a post that may be a solution to a problem that we are experiencing.

It seems that posts from a specific thread in the newsgroup can change their subject and still be threaded correctly, but when they are imported to the forum this is lost and replies to same thread with new subject are exported as new threads for those that are using news reader clients.

Receiving some complaints about this and wondered if there was a fix?

Hmm...I thought I had everything working right, but I seem to have a problem, my posts are not being inserted into the USENET forum.

http://www.pokerplayerforums.com/

Any Ideas?

I can post to usenet via my newsclient, but the post I placed in the discussion forum never got uploaded.

I think it has to do with this, maybe:
Email address domain email timelimit.yourserver.com
This domain is used for the msgid of the outgoing post and also for the email address sent to the newsgroups. In the future, I plan to impliment a time limited email address system so replys can go from email to PM.

I have not set that item, what should it be set too and could it be the reason my messages are not getting posted?

Well, I have found a something...it posts the first message to USENET in a thread if I post a thread in my forum, but not subsequent ones.

I'm not sure I understand this. It shouldn't be trying to download anything from here.

It sure is :)

My users don't like searching Usenet forums from a regular forum search, though. The way mine's set up, navbar searches for *new* posts don't include Usenet but regular and advanced searches do.

It's already in there. Take a look at gateway.php and you'll see the signature routine. Mine are disabled for Usenet but the feature works just fine.

Not that I know of - it'd be fairly simple to do with a query, though.

jcrash, look at post #351 on page 24 of this thread. There's a version of nntp.php that does verbose output - you should be able to troubleshoot from there. Maybe it'll tell you where the problem is.

There was already someone with the same problem:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...945#post451945

Thanks for the info, it's very useful :) For some reason the content of the posts I imported aren't searchable yet but this may be related to the fact I didn't let it finish the import because of the browser's behavior.

stroke, maybe you could think about this one for a bit before you implement it.

Posting to Usenet with a real email address will dramatically increase the amount of spam your users receive - and maybe your users won't be quite so grateful ;-)

I run my own mail server and the spam problem got bad enough that I finally altered the script to goober up the *domain* name instead of the username.

I have about five regular Usenet posters - and about three months after I installed the gateway the amount of spam my mail server received more than doubled. Spoofing the domain name instead of the username solved that problem.

Ah. I gotcha now :)

I'm not sure whether this is a browser or a webserver problem. The browser clearly knows what to do with php content or the user couldn't read or post here. Maybe gateway.php was uploaded as binary instead of ASCII? I'm just guessing, though :)

Contents of your Usenet forums should be searchable - you can look at my forum if you like. You should be able to search as an unregistered user -

http://ebassist.com

cheers -

Cool info there. I'm still somewhat holding back on testing this gateway thing first before applying it to my live forum. So is this domain spoofing thing is being done by default?

I uploaded it through SCP. I don't think that there's a problem with the file itself since it is importing, but it tries to make me download the file's output or something.

No - by default it spoofs the *username* but leaves the domain name intact.

That's kinda strange. I guess I'd look at browser settings, then.

I assume so too. I'm installing lynx on my box so it won't matter all that much. Sorry for the newbie question but which changes do I have to make to spoof the domain name instead?

Don't worry about it - the only dumb question is an unasked one ;)

This one I might have to give you when I get home - I can't run phpmyadmin on my work network, but I believe I spoofed the domain name in the database itself.

Perfect, I can't wait. Thank you! :)

edit: hmm, I just completed a full synchronize on my test forum and it again didn't add any words to the Search Index. I had to manually "Rebuild Search Index" to get the forum searchable.

yet another edit: Ah, I just noticed that outgoing email is on timelimit.yourserver.com, so I changed it in something else ;)

I'm testing this in one of the many test newsgroups and noticed some strange behavior. Right now I'm not receiving any of the posts I made with Outlook Express on my forum while Outlook Express does show all the posts I created or replied to via the forum.

I changed the lastmsg to 0, pruned all the posts, reset the counters and started importing but now it only imports 52 of 262 posts. I've tried this with gateway.php from gateway_Mar2.zip and also after making the adjustment listed here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=759 (only applied the "regulating the # of messages to download on each pass" change).

Any chance of getting it to log the output? I have it set to run in the Scheduled Tasks window twice every hour.

The weird thing is that when I post on an existing thread and run the scheduled task manually (via RUN NOW), most post hits the USENET forum just fine.

I'm trying to figure it out, but without a log of the error when it occurs, it is hard.

I'll check out the verbose output, thanks.

I run it as a crontab every ten minutes and redirect the output to a text file - it logs just fine, but I don't know how you'd do it using vB's scheduled task interface.

I point the scheduled task to the filename...perhaps this is the problem.

It seems like it should work though.

I use this as the filename: ./includes/cron/gateway.php

And, I just place my gateway.php in that folder.

It does seem to be related to me running it manually or not. Maybe I'll see if I can get my host to run it as a cron tab.

--jim

It'll work as a scheduled task but there's no way I can think of to redirect the output to a log file using vB - at least I don't think there is.

The way I do it isThe single angle bracket in the first instance overwrites the old file and the double brackets just append data to the existing file - so my log is overwritten every hour. If you want to keep more log than that you could set a daily, weekly or monthly cron job to overwrite the log instead of doing it once every hour.

Some hosts will let you set up your own cron jobs - it might be worth a look ;)

What am I doing wrong? I put the counter on 0, pruned every post, and only get 7 threads/10 posts.

Hey, I just logged into my Control Panel at my host (f5hosting) and noticed I have access to make my own cron tab.

Evidently, it emails me the results.

Do I need to change this line of code to make sure it has the content Im looking for?

if ($log != 'cron'){
echo $message;
flush;
}

I dunno, jcrash. I didn't change mine :)

The 'forum post' thingies are telling you the post is already in the forum database.

Set the counter to zero and prune *all* posts out of the forum. If you're already running the script as a cron job, disable the cron until you've got the forum populated.

I've pruned every post and put lastmsg on 0. I've updated every counter to make sure that the forum is indeed empty and yet with a new import it always gives this "Getting message number *: forum post" message.

edit: i'm using the original files and gateway.php from gateway_Mar2.zip

I assume nobody else has this problem? Sadly enough I can't seem to get this hack to work after I pruned the forum once.

Ogmuk, I spoofed the domain name in the nntp_settings table in the database. You'll see where it goes.

On the other thing, maybe creating a new forum is the thing to do. Something is still linking posts to Usenet articles.

I have tried putting it in a new forum but with the same result :/ It probably only will matter when I pick a different newsgroup but when this happens to my live forum I'd like to be able to fix this problem too. But I'll test this later.

Hmm, I never imported anything from this newsgroup and it does the same (only imports 20 of 89 posts):

Are you running the March 2 gateway.php version too, Allan? And did you made any changes to the file?

Wouldn't you still get the spam as a result of your domain name in the signature of the posts?

I've again tried various things in attempt to fix my problem. The only thing I haven't tested yet is importing the posts on an entirely new test board.

I've commented out the signature routine in gateway.php :D

On the other problem - I'm afraid I'm clueless, Ogmuk. I'm sorry I don't know more, but maybe lierduh or someone else will pop in and lend a hand.

Good luck!

No - I'm still running the Feb 12 version. I don't allow attachments in the Usenet forums because they're text-only newsgroups, so the added features don't do amything for me. Besides - the one I have is working ;)

Cool. Could you upload that older version since I can't download it from lierduh's post anymore?

Be happy to.

Remember the signature routines in this one have been altered and then commented out. You might want to replace them with the current routines.