I can send newsgroup messages but Iam not receiving them or they are not being posted into the section.

Whats up??

Brian

Hey Gilby
Since you were online, I just wanted to see if I could get some feedback on getting the newsgroup posts to show up on my bulletin board. Right now I get this when I run gateway.php

1 group(s) gatewayed.
Logging in to east.usenetserver.com, group alt.binaries.nude.celebrities.female

I set the forum ID to 9 in nntp_groups which corresponds to the forums I named newsgroups on my bulletin board. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Gibly,

Now that my board is downloading newsgroup posts using the cron job you specified, I've noticed that the time listed for every post is the time when it was downloaded, not the time the post was made. It didn't do that when I initially ran gateway.php to get the first batch of messages, but only since I've had it running automatically. It's strange looking at the messages and having their time all end with 5! Any idea what's causing this?

Paid install
Hello I have tried everything I can think of but I cannot get this to work on my bulletin board. I would at this point like to pay somebody who know what they are doing to install it for me. I can pay through Paypal so if you are interested please email me and let me know how much you want to do the install.
Thank you

Brian Cruz: AFAICS the date on posts is the date of insertion to db not the date of post on NNTP server. Even if the script would retrieve date from NNTP server I'm not quite sure it's possible to add original post date without messing about with showthread.php, showpost.php and then adding template calls.

It was programmed to do it that way. It does this because the date on posts are defined by the poster and their clocks are usually not in sync with everyone elses. What this does in the forums then is it causes some new posts to be inserted and appear before posts that were already there.

Just curious:

Since VB updates sometimes change the sql table structure, what would be the effect when this gateway is installed?

Will future VB upgrades fail if they don't find the table structure they presume is there?

This hack only adds tables and columns to the database and does not change any existing data structures, so upgrading to a new version should not be a problem for vb. However, if vb changes the data structure, then it could affect the functionality of this hack.

It would be truly fantastic if a system like this existed which also adds the site's signature to any messages posted through it.

So it's advertising the site on each posting, even if the user doesn't have the site in their signature.

Can this be incorporated into the next release, or what files should we change to achieve this?

Thanks for such a useful hack - adds immeasurably to the forums,

Cheers,

Ross

Hi Gilby.

First of all : GREAT WORK !

BUT ;)

Your mime.php seems not to handle the following mime format:

=?iso-8859-1?q?this=20is=20some=20text?=

Many usernames contain special charsets that seem to to be encoded this way.

Where is your mime.php from ? Is there a newer version with support for it ?

PS: More Info about the format:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2047.html

Thank You
etom