gopherhockey,

can you tell us exactly what you did to stop that ?

look up

Im running 2.2.6 (not sure if that matters), I setup a test box and added this hack to it. It sucks posts in ok, but posts made to the newsgroup do not appear on the groups. Is this a knowsn problem, it's making me mad!!!

Take a look, http://jf.myftp.org the forums is called TEST under the General Forums

After you post the reply, go into your admin control panel and click on "Manual Syncronisation". What does the screen say? Are you getting any error messages? I'm using it on my new site and don't have any problems.

It says it is posted ok!

Im using ultrafeed news server if that is important...

I could be the news service you use. I have seen some that will take several hours for a post to show up after it was made.

Gilby set up a test server here that you can use to make sure that everything is working. Try that and see if the posts show up.

Ive been having issues with my news provider over spam messages being posted to usenet thru my board. Do you guys moderate your outgoing posts? Does it work well with the hack?

I can't get past gateway.php connecting to the server. It doesn't import or export messages at all. I've read throught his thread as much as possible, what can be missing?

What news server are you using? Are you getting any error messages? If you are trying to use your ISP's news server they may have it set so that it will not accept connections from outside the network.

Try the test server posted here and see if you can connect to it. If you can, then it's your news provider.

If you still can't get it working, PM me and I'll see if I can help.

Ok, I sort of have this working. Few questions:

1. Is there a way of making the reply address the same for any user (e.g. usenet@thrill-seekers.net) and then having a cron job checking this account every x mins and then importing any replies to threads into the newsgroup forum? Im sure someone must have done this already.

2. Have a weird issue, I post to free.teranews.com, in outlook express I can't see my posts on either teranews.com or ultrafeed.com servers but they show up on my ISP's server?!? Can anyone see a post on rec.aviation.hang-gliding ?

3. How regularly can I have a cron job running gateway.php without making the server slow down to a halt and being thrown out by my host (powweb)? 5mins, 10mins? If you want to see the size of the newsgroups I will be using then take a look at http://jf.myftp.org (my test box). I guess I will have about 6-7 other groups on my live site all of similar size.

4. What is the best way to stop my DB going over my 250MB server disk limit? I guess I should clear out posts once they are 30 days old or so, VBAdmin doesn't do this so I guess I will have to run a cron job, are there any good scripts already out there for this purpose?

Thanks.

Justin