Find the lines (around line 550) that start with "$signature .= " and change those to how you want the signature to be.

Thanks for the help. I had almost forgot about asking this.

I have two issues with this and would welcome some help :)

1. Using the graphical interface, I cant seem to move a newsgroup (rec.travel.australia+nz) - I think this may be due to the '+' in the name. When clicking on the groups settings, I just get blank fields.

2. How does this hack handle outgoing attachments? I have them disabled by default as I am using text groups, but I am curious what would happen.

Thanks for any/all help.
Max.

I am getting this after manual sync. what should I do?

1 group(s) gatewayed.
Could not connect to NNTP-serverLogging in to netnews.insightbb.com, group comp.graphics.apps.photoshop
Not connectedNot connected

Gilby,

I posted before aobut trying to use this hack to download some biniary groups, but I was having trouble with the uuencoded attachments. I've been looking for a way to solve this, and someone sent me here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.base64-decode.php

Would this work? I'm willing to pay for this if you can get it working. PM me with the details.

Thanks

I am testing the NNTP gateway to the public news server at inn.qnx.com and trying to pull all articles from the group "qdn.cafe" (less than 600 posts). it always fails after message number 562:

...
Getting message number 561: Thread found; 'Re: This is great....' from Bill Caroselli \(Q-TPS\)
Getting message number 562: Thread found; 'Re: This is great....' from Mario Charest

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 10 bytes) in /var/www/html/forums/admin/functions.php on line 1318

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 11 bytes) in Unknown on line 0
...

the php.ini has the default setup of 8M memroy. and I have installed the gui interface from GameCrash.

the posts in that newsgroup are all less than 1M. does the gateway code NOT release the memory after pulling each article? this means we will run out of 8M php allowed memory if we have many posts?
Is there a way to fix it without increasing the 8M limit?

Thanks!
Frank

Now it's getting worse!
I doubled memory_limit to 16M in php.ini and try to hit gateway.php again, this time it gets a few more posts:
...
Getting message number 568: Thread found; 'Re: This is great....' from Eric Norton
Getting message number 569: Thread found; 'Re: This is great....' from Mario Charest
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<b>Fatal error</b>: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 644127 bytes) in <b>/var/www/html/forums/admin/functions.php</b> on line <b>1330</b><br>
<br>
<b>Fatal error</b>: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 0 bytes) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br>

The worst part is now if I go to the forums main page, I see all the duplicates!! it seems gateway.php doesn't know that it has already pulled some of the posts. It gets ALL posts again! Doesn't gateway.php updates the "last_post" count after successfully pulled ONE post? it seems gateway.php only updates the "last_post" count when it finishes polling all posts. If it fails (in my cases), it lost the opportunity to update the "last_post count.

Frank

In addition to the "last_post" count, I suggest we use the message-id from the post as a unique id to avoid duplicates. before we insert a new post, we do a select on msgid to make sure it is NOT a duplicate. if we index the msgid, this overhead should be trivial but the benefit is huge. You can import multiple times without worrying about duplicates. btw, we should probably raise the msgid to varchar(255) which is the largest that we can index I believe. we can have better unique-ness with 255 chars I hope.

Frank

Is there a problem with subscribing to a usenet thread and getting email notifications of replies? It doesnt seem to be working for me?

Hey Guys; great hack!
I got it to work with a test server but when I try to use my ISP's I get this and nothing else:

1 group(s) gatewayed.
Logging in to news.epix.net, group rec.arts.disney.parks

can this mean I am not getting into my server? I have my user name and password set up.