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I just received this email through my contact form today:

> --------------------------------
>
> ++++ you. ++++ you hardcore.
>
> How DARE you incorporate usenet, and make me participate with your
> website?? You make it look like the threads are started here, and we are
> subject to your rules and regs. I never subscribed here, and you are not
> google, where it is implicit that the Usenet group is being archived. You
> are not attributing the newsgroup, you are
> hijacking our posts that we made in good faith.
>
> Next, if someone violates YOUR guidlines, but their post did not violate
> their isp providers guidelines for Usenet, and that person is "reported"
> to their isp by a participant here...you get my drift?
>
> Lazy, plagerizing, deceitful, unfair...you name it, you lazy bastards, you
> ARE it.
>
> Jerks. May your website be a failure...in fact, I am contacting YOUR ISP
> and webspace provider, and complaining. Expect more from other usnet-only
> users.
>
> --------------------------------

<font size="1">No wonder Usenet has fallen into decline, with such amount of unmotivated hate and zealotry there...</font>

I'm having a trouble with e-mail subjects with more than 64 characters... the import simply stops everytime. Some idea?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deriel

I'm having a trouble with e-mail subjects with more than 64 characters... the import simply stops everytime. Some idea?

Please provide more information.

Quote:

Originally Posted by flicknut

I just received this email through my contact form today:

> --------------------------------

This is not the first, and will not be the last.

Generally forums should not advertise the forums throught the gateway. Even the linked thread URLs can be considered advertising, so I turn all the footers off, only leave the username to be sent with the message. Also the forum owner should educate their users about what the gateway is. Failing that, making the USENET forums as moderated forums may be the way to go.

Edit: the newer version I am working on (not uploaded, only used in my board and in the cvs) tags all the imported user names with Ext User(usenet user name). So it will be more clear for the origin of the USENET messages.

BTW, new features will only be added to the version vb3_5 branch. vb3_5 branch is the newer version to work with vB3.5.

Quote:

Originally Posted by lierduh

Please provide more information.

I'll try to :think:

Here are the complete header of a message that cannot be imported. Pro process stop and resume only after I delete the message. I using the Hack in a Message List, not Usenet

Code:

Return-Path: <sentto-2458507-36227-1120444200-teste_nf_listas=valinor.com.br@returns.groups.yahoo.com>

Delivered-To: teste_nf_listas@valinor.com.br

Received: (qmail 86047 invoked by uid 1011); 4 Jul 2005 02:31:54 -0000

Received: from n24.bulk.scd.yahoo.com (66.94.237.53)

     by laurelin.valinor.com.br with SMTP; 4 Jul 2005 02:31:54 -0000

Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys

DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=hotel; d=yahoogrupos.com.br;

     b=Txb9pQq7e04HAMjz1k2ereT0zmw7cpDSFRmC7lylF4H2w7ZFs7Ad6dvgUhH1scIbXEWY+ChnCTc5g0cxyFZNPv+iNHwdXm6fuvxx6DYw2ev5Lw++ZL5ycIriBhUk6Y7H;

Received: from [66.218.66.59] by n24.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Jul 2005 02:30:00 -0000

Received: from [66.218.66.27] by mailer8.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Jul 2005 02:30:00 -0000

X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: groups-email

X-Sender: lordpas@yahoo.com.br

X-Apparently-To: valinor_br@yahoogrupos.com.br

Received: (qmail 28172 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2005 02:29:59 -0000

Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218)

     by m21.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Jul 2005 02:29:59 -0000

Received: from unknown (HELO n31.bulk.scd.yahoo.com) (66.94.237.60)

     by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Jul 2005 02:29:59 -0000

Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys

Received: from [66.218.69.1] by n31.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Jul 2005 02:29:55 -0000

Received: from [66.218.66.65] by mailer1.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Jul 2005 02:29:55 -0000

To: valinor_br@yahoogrupos.com.br

Message-ID: <daa6v0+u0re@eGroups.com>

In-Reply-To: <20050703180435.95520.qmail@web80902.mail.scd.yahoo.com>

User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82

X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster

X-Originating-IP: 66.94.237.60

X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0

X-Yahoo-Post-IP: 200.102.98.75

From: "lordpas" <lordpas@yahoo.com.br>

X-Yahoo-Profile: lordpas

Sender: valinor_br@yahoogrupos.com.br

MIME-Version: 1.0

Mailing-List: list valinor_br@yahoogrupos.com.br; contact valinor_br-owner@yahoogrupos.com.br

Delivered-To: mailing list valinor_br@yahoogrupos.com.br

List-Id: <valinor_br.yahoogrupos.com.br>

Precedence: bulk

List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:valinor_br-unsubscribe@yahoogrupos.com.br>

Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 02:29:52 -0000

Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?Re:_[VALINOR]_Diferen=E7as_entre_esp=EDritos_elficos_e_humanos.?=

Reply-To: valinor_br@yahoogrupos.com.br

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

The message subject is Re: [VALINOR] Diferen?as entre esp?ritos elficos e humanos. and its body is

Code:

Se Luthien volta como mulher, como diz o Silma, n?o existe raz?o 

para Dior ser meio elfo.





Mas eu sei que existem fontes que o citam assim. ? nessas horas que 

eu queria um help do Boss, j? que ele parece saber sobre Dior, etc...



E claro, os descendentes de Dior no caso s?o meio elfos por causa 

dos tchaca-tchacas que ocorreram entre Idril e Tuor, Earendil e 

Elwing, etc... N?o existe a real necessidade DELE ser meio elfo pra 

explicar alguma coisa. 



E Tolkien ainda me mata o rapaz antes da hora, gasp... s? pra 

ficarmos na d?vida sobre at? quando ele teria vivido, etc... bem 

apagadinho esse Dior tamb?m. Nem parece filho de Luthien & Beren.



Lordpas



--- Em valinor_br@yahoogrupos.com.br, ghostty2001 <ghostty2001@y...> 

escreveu

> Lord, eu acredito que Dior seja meio elfo, pois

> Luthien era elfa na verdade, apenas ganha a chance de

> voltar como mortal para poder viver o seu amor por

> Beren em paz. Mas ? apenas algo que eu acho que possa

> ser uma resposta convincente!!

> 

> ghostty

> 

>









PARA SAIR DA LISTA basta enviar um e-mail *a partir do e-mail que est? cadastrado na

lista* para valinor_br-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com



GUIA DE COMO SE CADASTRAR NO YAHOOGRUPOS

http://www.valinor.com.br/artigos/artigo.asp?id=454



PARTICIPE TAMB?M DA VALINOR_FILMES: 

http://br.groups.yahoo.com/group/valinor_filmes



PARTICIPE TAMB?M DO NEWSLETTER_VALINOR: 

http://br.groups.yahoo.com/group/valinor_newsletter



PARTICIPE TAMB?M DO FORUM VALINOR: 

http://forum.valinor.com.br 

Links do Yahoo! Grupos



<*> Para visitar o site do seu grupo na web, acesse:

    http://br.groups.yahoo.com/group/valinor_br/



<*> Para sair deste grupo, envie um e-mail para:

    valinor_br-unsubscribe@yahoogrupos.com.br



<*> O uso que voc? faz do Yahoo! Grupos est? sujeito aos:

    http://br.yahoo.com/info/utos.html

What another informations should I send?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deriel

What another informations should I send?

A debug log will centainly help.

I imported that message without any problem.

I notice the subject is mime coded.
Does your php server have "imap_mime_header_decode" function?

Quote:

Originally Posted by lierduh

A debug log will centainly help.

I imported that message without any problem.

I notice the subject is mime coded.
Does your php server have "imap_mime_header_decode" function?

I put a serie of "print" to investigate and the processing stops in these lines:

Code:

                        logging("Getting message number $current: ");

                        $last_loaded = $current;

                        $mime = new mime();

Another problem. The title match method isn't working ok, like in

http://forum.valinor.com.br/forumdisplay.php?f=86

The is a thread for every mail reply

Does this work with 3.0.7?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gutspiller

Does this work with 3.0.7?

3.07 is the same as 3.05 other than some minor security patchies

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deriel

Another problem. The title match method isn't working ok, like in

http://forum.valinor.com.br/forumdisplay.php?f=86

The is a thread for every mail reply

You need to go through the settings again, there is a setting to deal with this.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deriel

I put a serie of "print" to investigate and the processing stops in these lines:

Code:

                        logging("Getting message number $current: ");

                        $last_loaded = $current;

                        $mime = new mime();

When I say debug, I meant to run the gateway in debug mode. Please see readme.txt

I'm new to this. What do I put in the "Newsgroup/Mailing list E-mail" and "Server" text fields when setting it up to pull a newsgroup?

The newsgroup I want to use is alt.games.video.xbox what do I need to put into the fields when creating the new newsgroup??? :(

anybody come up with a way to bypass having so many duplicate posts? the only thing I've come up with so far is runnig the import then using the vbulletin tool to kill dupe threads

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gutspiller

bump

I am picking up POP mail and when I run the gateway.php I get the following error:

Quote:

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT post.*, thread.*,
post.dateline AS postdateline, post.msgid AS postmsgid,
thread.title AS threadtitle, post.visible AS postvisible,
thread.visible AS threadvisible
FROM vb_post as post LEFT JOIN vb_thread as thread
ON (thread.threadid = post.threadid
AND post.userid = thread.postuserid
AND post.postid = thread.firstpostid)
WHERE post.isusenetpost = 0
AND post.postid > 49509
AND thread.forumid = 32

mysql error: Unknown column 'post.msgid' in 'field list'

mysql error number: 1054

I do not have msgid column and all my tables have a prefix "vb_post" not "post"

What am I doing wrong?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gutspiller

Come on people! I took the time to install this mod, the least somebody could do is help me on how I fill in the info boxes to get it to pull the content it's suppose to.. :disappointed:

Newsgroup/Mailing list E-mail = the name of the newsgroup you want to import (that would be alt.games.video.xbox)

Server = the name of your nntp provider (ie. news.blabla.com)

HTH,
-k

Hello All,

Could some one help me how to remove or replace the '=?Utf-8?B?UmFqYQ==?= ' in teh place of user name .. tried to find the answer in the forum, I could not find it.. I am sorry if it's answered. Could you please give me the link how we can replace that with guyest or something...

Regards,

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gutspiller

Come on people! I took the time to install this mod, the least somebody could do is help me on how I fill in the info boxes to get it to pull the content it's suppose to.. :disappointed:

you need to subscribe to a Usenet server service for best results.

Giganews, Usenetserver, etc

you can use your local ISP's but they tend to have little retention. Regardless of which you use, they'll provide you with the proper information.

Hello sdsvtdriver,

Do you know how I can remove those junk user id's.....

Can I use giganes on the forum without any reststrcitions?

Thanks,

What are the recommended settings for a read-only setup, on a mailing list for example?

I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but I have experienced some problems with Xrefs and messages that has been crossposted. It seems like the importer only looks for the first xref (or something like that) in the header, so if there's crossposts the import stops completely and I have to update the postcount manually for those groups. Is that a known problem or something that only I have seen?

(CUT silly first message about how to get pop3 working)
amazing the difference some sleep makes.

Ok - I know somewhere in this thread is "mbox" but I cannot find it.

I have a 10k message mbox extracted from Yahoo. Is there a way of importing that directly into the system - other than copying the file to a POP3 mail folder and getting via POP3?

Cheers,
Mathew

Quote:

Originally Posted by SEO Report

Newsgroup/Mailing list E-mail = the name of the newsgroup you want to import (that would be alt.games.video.xbox)

Server = the name of your nntp provider (ie. news.blabla.com)

HTH,
-k

How do we find out who is our "nntp provider "? Is this something you have to pay for or is there a question I should ask my host to find this out? Something that is setup on my server or what?

I am getting 404 errors when trying to run

gateway.php?debug=1

Any idea why?

thanks

I've waded through the replies in this thread, and I still have a few questions.

We are looking for a hack that allows our members to participate via email. Receive posts via email, make posts via email, and reply to posts via email. We have a email server that has mailing list capabilities, but I'd like to understand more about how this feature works. There is TONS of information on how to interact with usenet via NNTP, but I do not find much information on how to interact with mailing lists and allow our members to treat the vBulletin forums like they do with a Yahoo Groups or other email list based community.

If anyone has implemented this hack in the manner I described above, please reply or send me a PM with some of your experiences.

Thanks

a GREAT release, thank you :)

I installed everything (latest version) and have the following problem:

When I want to run gateway.php?debug=1, it tells me that another instance is already running. No posts are imported.

So - where's my error?

Hi there

Like the patch! Quick question though, is there anyway that in the settings of the "Edit Newsgroup Settings" that the Prefix could have a wildcard? REason for asking is that I have a email list that I subscribe to, and their subject line is [abc e:01234] kind oif thing, the first part is always the same abc e: but the number changes!!

Or as teh header of the email has a Reply to address of the list, can that be set anywhere so as to stop spam from entering the thread!?!?!?

Thanks,
Chris

Hey,
Can someone help please.

This is the first time I am trying to use anything like this.

I want to add the messages from alt.politics.bush to my forum.
Can someone tell me if I can do this and help please?

I am getting the following error:

Quote:

Not connected
Not connected
<html><head><title>Iran War Information Forum Database Error</title><style type="text/css"></style></head>
<body></table></td></tr></table></form>
<blockquote><p class="error"> </p><p class="error"><b>There seems to have been a slight problem with the Iran War Information Forum database.</b><br />
Please try again by pressing the <a href="javascript:window.location=window.location;" >refresh</a> button in your browser.</p><p class="error">An E-Mail has been dispatched to our <a href="mailto:tmzmod@hotmail.com">Technical Staff</a>, who you can also contact if the problem persists.</p><p class="error">We apologise for any inconvenience.</p><form><textarea class="error" rows="15" cols="100" wrap="off">Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE nntp_settings
SET value = WHERE varname = 'last_postid'

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE varname = 'last_postid'' at line 2

mysql error number: 1064

Thanks very much

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Diver

You have an empty forum. Make one post and you will be fine.

Thanks for the quick reply :)

I am still getting not connected:

Quote:

Gateway version 2.3.2 1 group(s) gatewayed.
Could not connect to NNTP-server. (Connection refused (61))

Not connected
Posting Message 'Description of this forum' from admin. Result:
Not connected
Not connected

Hi,

I could find nothing that does the following changes!!!

can someone pls help me? screenshot attached.

Bg
=======

Newsgroup/M-list E-mail : the email address to send a message to mailing list.
Server: A pop3 email server. One dedicated email address to receive emails from list.
Username: pop3 email user name
Password: pop3 email account password
Sender:
Set to 'use_real_email': will use the member's real email address in the From: header
Set to 'One Name <a_email@a_domain.com>': All posts will use this as the From: header
Leave this empty: posts will use a randomly generated email address to prevent spam
prefix: Set this to the mailing list title. Eg. if the mailing list always have
[Newbie] in the subject line, enter [Newbie] as the prefix. If you leave
this blank, all messages will be imported.
lastmsg: no need to set

Hey,
I thought the server was meant to be pop3 server?

Then some people said its a newgroup server?

Could someone tell me what should go in there please?

Thanks
John

ok, I got it!! thanks.

while trying to run: http://www.asiasrc.org/posts/gateway.php?debug=1

got this eror

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: globalize() in /home/asiasrc/public_html/posts/gateway.php on line 73

?? any idea??

Phrase Groups Available:

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.02202 seconds Memory Usage 1,860KB Queries Executed 10 (?)
More Information
Template Usage: (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (4)bbcode_code_printable (16)bbcode_quote_printable (1)footer (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (6)option (1)pagenav (1)pagenav_curpage (4)pagenav_pagelink (1)pagenav_pagelinkrel (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (1)printthread (40)printthreadbit (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open Phrase Groups Available: global postbit showthread	Included Files: ./printthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/class_bbcode_alt.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete printthread_start pagenav_page pagenav_complete bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete printthread_post printthread_complete
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