its me again :D
i just changed the emailsettings and now i get this when i set the ladt message id and try gatewy.php:
so it seems its posted.. and now what to do now to receive the newsest answers otr new articles.. that i did not understood really ..

EDIT:
ok, now 10 minutes after i posted my post and searched in the newsgroup with outlook i found it :D yeah it wortked .. but than to receive new articles i call gateway.php thats the point when he downloads and dont stop anymore downloading any stuff but not alwys, receiving its nothing .. just my test posts are showing up in the group .. :(

..still not working correctly.. now tried for many hours .. wont work .. maybe my php 4.0.6 or MySQL ist to old to work 100% with this script.

as i said i can post in the group (sometimes) and many times it downloads without stopping the gateway.php. I tried to finish a download but then i reached 400Mb and stopped it now .. something is crashing . the gateway.php dont want to download messages but sometimes upload my messages i wrote or other wrote in the subforum for the newsgroup.

making a break here and getting a cup coffee .. it should not be that the script works for me .. it would be damn good ;)

Highlander,

You could not post because you did not set "email" in the settings table as you have found out. What is your newsgroup settings for the MS Access group?

KevinM,

Got your PM, it seems your php set up does not have a temp directory for php to use. Do you have a directory under your control that php can write temp files to it?

xb,

Thanks, the empty attachments are the PGP signature. I will deal with this in the new version. (I should have time to work on the script tonight, and hopefuly tomorrow.) Which version of nntp_groups.php do you use that you had the TABLE_PREFIX problem? please check the cvs version at the top of the script. I went through the latest script, but could not find any missed "TABLE_PREFIX". The default user ID is 0 for guest. What did the error say when you used 0 instead of another userid?

This is my version of nntp_groups.php:
$Id: nntp_groups.php,v 1.3 2004/05/17 09:14:31 ns Exp $
[high]* xb_ hits himself on his head.
[/high]
just now i see that there is already a newer version. 1.6. Wow +0.3 version updates in 2 days...
Thanks for resolving this :) and sorry for the inconvinience.


I don't seem to get an error, and the posts are inserted. The problem i had with uid 0 is that the posts don't get displayed on the forumdisplay.php script. My guess would be that this is because of the permission settings on that specific forum (guests have no access at all there, while the valid account has).
If i opened up the showthread.php script with parameters, i could see them just fine, but this could also have been due to my administrator access).
I also think that the posts are correctly inserted, only they would appear when i edit the userid into a valid one in phpmyadmin. I thought its only in the threads table, but not entirelly sure of this atm; i made all the uid 0s' a valid one in gateway.php, while i was at it.

While we thought about this over a few posts, i'll try setting guests allowing to post new threads in that forum, and allowing to reply, while i'll upload the newer version of your scripts, for testing purpose. I'll check up on it when i wake up :)

the settings are attached in my previous post before with a jpg image .. i set the email and i am now able (but not every time i run gateway.php) to post in the newsgroup .. when i check it out with outlook i found my test articles in it .. my settings for MS Newsserver are following:

SERVER: msnews.microsoft.com
LAST MESSAGE: 16534 (10 articles still left)
GROUP: microsoft.public.de.german.spiele
USER/PASS: none setted (there is no need)

you see i changed to ms games group0 .. its the same .. every free group i tried has the same problem ..

in the attachemnt i attached an image of my settings ... (email is set the picture is older so dont take care of this :D !)

question:
can you give me another newsserver for testing? your swiftel server want to have user and pass , cant use them for a test.

whats the issue with downloding all the 100mbs? why is gateway an lastmessage.php everytimne saving themself? is this neccessary?

Hope you can help me making the thing work :D

Stick to the "microsoft.public.access" group on the "msnews.microsoft.com" server. Set the lastmsg to 73800. Disable all the other groups, only enable this group!

What is on your screen if you run it manually. If you use IE and it tries to download instead of displaying it on the screen. Please fix the Windows registry following the instruction here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=ie600

This went without result.


I checked the hacks i have inside forumdisplay.php, which is only a warning system. By removing this warning system, the problem was solved.

Lierduh,

It's my own leased server (although I'm stuffed when it comes to knowing how to configure it :ninja: ). I tried creating the directories and changing the path in the script but it had the same error. I then tried changing the v+ to w+ in the fopen statement and the script loops through the attachments without breaking, but produces the following error upon with each attachment:

The attachment is downloaded and inserted correctly for viewing, except for the thumbnail.

Can someone confirm this works on 3.0.1. Thx.

Yes works very well on 3.0.1

THX LIEDERUH:


its nots completely working, but it was an IE issue and with the registry fix i added manually in the registry the IE is now wirkoing corectly, but now i have an error message.

the site gateway.php is loading and messaging folling line:
it seems that the RTIM is now a PHP 4.0.6 command??


any ideas .. its the code in uincludes/nntp.php at line 132
thank fpr the help, i think we are nearly on a working script :D

okai i fixed it but maybe not really correctly :D

changed this lines:
to this lines:
if there is a better way fixing this LASt issue so tell me please, but with this canges now everything is working, the posts apear now and i can read and post ionto newsgroups .. and it writes the group messages into the forum!

many thanks to liederuh he is giving a excellent support here!!! really .. you are after logician the second one i would install hacks without reading :D

Questions

1. How to create a cron job, when i dont have shell, telnet access? Can i use the cron manager of the vb Software? and add the /vb-directory/gateway.php to it .. so it would call the gateway once hourly.
2. Why i cant call gateway.php for 30 minutes after it loaded out and imported successfully articles from the groups?
3. When i post with prefix in articels they wont appear as anser, they will show up as news articels, is there any fix?

thanks for the great help :D

i can answer #2 for you. It didn't finish going though all of the messages and time out. The reason why there is 30 mins is so two programs will not run at one time. When one program gets down it is supose to change the 1 to 0 in a table. which will let it run again.

Download the new version, it should fix the rtrim problem, it had problem working with an older version of php.

1) Last time I checked, you can just include the gateway.php in the vB cron job. It will be run every hour.
2) The only time you have this problem is the script crashed. This is to prevent a race condition from more than one running script.
3)You don't want to add prefix to the posts, otherwise, they will not be threaded properly.

Please try the new v2.1.0. It may solve your problem.

Bravo Lierduh! I am very impressed with how far you have taken this in the last few weeks and very happy that you have decided to continue developement.

Thank you!

The new versions - can you explain in a post here if people need to upgrade, or are they only for people who want mailing list support?

Erwin, I would say use the latest one. Other than mailinst list support. I have improved handling for mime encoded messages, even if you do not use binary group (not really designed as a binary gateway I must say). People use mime encoding for PGP signatures and other purposes. There are a few new options available now in the setting table. I am not sure which version are you using, but chances are there were bugs fixed with the newer version. I had a quick browse through my cvs logs, there are quick a few areas changed since last release. It is not urgent though to upgrade, this release does not contain major bug fixes. Naturally, there might be new bugs created.:) However, the upgrade only needs you to log in to the AdminCP and open the pages, other than uploading the files.:)

I did not see a answer to my post... How can I get this to show up as something other then:

Unknown Location
/forum/gateway.php?log=cron

In the user lists with CRON runs the gateway?

Hi

I started to install the script when my server went down and only some of the tables for the database were created. When I run the settings I get a MYSQL Error.

Can someone tell me what Tables were created so I can delete them manually and reinstall it.

This should be the tables in a SQL file for you :).

Thanks so much odion. I tried looking in the files for it and just now saw them in the nntp settings file but with the file you supplied I won't have to look for it.

liederuh you forgot the nntp.sql in the new version ;)

and thx again for your help ..

The Cronjob i do is onlyy the path to gateway in vb cron added?

got another error, maybe you know something about this :D .. i hope i am creating not to much errors and asking you holes in the stomach :D
this error appears if an article in the group has many answers (over 30) or i porting more than 100 articles. It seems he wants to buffer the imported data into a file? but it also seems if i would chmod gateway.php to 777 than he would overwrite it with the buffered data, right?! so the gateway.php would be overwritten and unuseable for the nexttime, but anyway, if i start it again with the next message id it will import correctly , so that means the last message id creates this error ..

.. BUt hey its a great script .. i really like it is very useful!

Questions
1. Do you know where i can find a list of the newsgroup servers? Only search engines or similar sites wich posts the articles itself i found, the nntp servers are really under heavy secret .. nobody wants to share this information. I searched google for days now and i only found some open, but not very good, newsgroup adresses.
Where i can find the Adresses for the nntp servers?

2. The "Guests" who wrotes the usenet articles in the specified Forum i choose is signed as guest, i want to know if its not possible to integrate it in the script while it imports the articles to sign the "guest" as "usenet Guest" it would look much better :D .. i will crawl trough the code :D maybe i can answer this myself!


This is minimum the hack of the month, better would sound the hack of the YEAR 2004!

greetings from germany
Daniel (Highlander)

Want take a look of the imported articles:
Usenet Forums with the imported articles

No... it makes the tables for you when you run the script from the admin panel the first time...

Alright, I'll install the latest version. :)

It needs to hack into "who on line" script. I don't see the immediate need for this. Besides one less php script to touch is always a good thing.

The best way to do when this happens is to delete both nntp_groups and nntp_settings tables. Open the AdminCP interfaces. These tables will be recreated by the AdminCP.

You are using an older version of the script. Get the new one! If you click the "Install" button on top right of this page. You will receive update/bug fix emails from me for this hack.

Just enter gateway.php without the cron bit into your vB cron job list.

From next version, the default calling of gateway.php will not involve the debugging messages displayed on the screen. If you need to see those messages, then one will need to call the script as .../gateway.php?debug=1.

I doubt many people is using a free news server. Although sometimes you can find misconfiged news servers wide open, it is not guaranteed to work the next day. Subscribe to one of cheapie news server for a couple of bucks/Euro/month is the best way to go. I have seen some need only one time registration with small fee to pay. Or change the host to one who lets you access to a news server.

There is no need for this file with the newer version. If you use this old file, extra empty no use fields will be created!

okai thx .. what about the posting .. i mean exporting to a newsgroup. a user told me that when i post a horroble wide range of unsorted html tags showed up, so that my postings there messed up the whole style .. nearly unreadable with some vb-tags and many html tags.

i disabled html in all my forums and the img code .. should i disable also the vb and smiley code in this forums to export posts on the right way?

here an example:

I have no idea what you have done.:) No, html should not show up. Check your post in your post table. If you see html, then the problem is nothing to do with gatway.

lierduh - I like the way you coded the AdminCP files. :) Very smart.

When I run the gateway.php file. It pulls the first 2 post but then it just hangs and does nothing else.

Have I done something wrong?

ditto how long should i wait?

More information will help. What is your lastmsg ID for this group? Have you follow the readme file to find out the last message ID for the group? how many groups do you have? What is displayed on the screen? Is there any errors in your web log?...

Thanks Erwin, that is probably the best one can expect from a fellow coder.:)

Two questions:

1. How does the mailing list archive look when it's viewed? Does it look just like how the usenet gateway looks? I'm thinking of archiving a yahoo mailing list and was wondering if it would look like how the usenet posts look (ie, threaded posts). If you reply to a mailing list post, will it be sent to everyone else on the mailing list?

2. I tested the usenet gateway function and it works well on my 3.01 board. However, when I was importing the posts from a group (about 1,000 posts), the reported serverload in my vB CP went through the roof. Before importing they were at 18, 19, 22. During the import they went up to 155, 140, 55. I can't imagine my host is gonna appreciate that since I'm using a shared server. Is there some way you could reduce the load on the server during imports?

excellent hack :D

1. It will look just like the Usenet messages, threaded. When you make a post to the mailing list forum, it effectively sends an email to the mailing list as your group setting. If the list accepts posts from anyone, you are on.

One thing I will add into the next version is: right now, the "From: " email address is the same format as the USENET ones, ie. it does not contain the real email address due to spam prevention. There should be an option for the mailing list forums to send real email address. Some mailing lists only accept subscribed member's posts.

2. There are many things the script needs to do when importing a message. I doubt there will be much room to improve. You normally do not experience the high server load, because no one is doing the continuing posts one after another for 1000 times. For a start, a server load of 18 is already too high. I am surprised it did not fall apart.:) You can always only import new messages as per readme.

anyone has a good USENET list? or, could direct me to one

thanks