I have attempted to read through these for anyone seeing the same issue but for some reason I keep getting the "minimum word length 3" error... and I may have missed a post or two in this long thread so I'm sorry if this has been addressed.

I'm using this hack to gateway a mailing list, works nice, but I have been seeing a few odd things in the gatewayed posts. here is one:

I see in my gatewayed forum a post that came from email that looks like this :

Why the "3D" every where there is an "=" sign

and also the "=" at the end of the second line below does not exist in the original message.
and that was all one line in the email not three...

the URL is: www.exim-users.org incase you want to take a look at the resulting posts.

Any Ideas?

Kevin

What's the actual error that it spits out? It should say what line it's on. Is this error showing when running the gateway script? That sounds like the error you'd get if you try doing a search in the forum and the word has less than 3 characters.

As for your other problem, sounds like the original email is encoded and the script is not parsing it correctly. More info would be needed to solve it, such as the original message in raw form, complete with headers.

- Gilby

Gilby,

I'll save off the next few days of messages so I can find one that is not working ... the search error was just the standard error message when your search list is not long enough . Not an error, just an explanation as to why I was asking a question that may have been asked before.

Kevin

Any SQL wizards out there able to tell me how to do a subsitution from inside a post? I'd love to run a sql command to replace the "=3D" with "=" in every post.

Gilby,

You will be happy to hear that the problem is out side the scope of the NNTP gateway Hack. After looking closely at the incoming messages in the mailbox I see that some of them are already malformed in the way that they show up in the fourms. So the import is working just fine. I believe that this is being caused by either the client or mailman in doing a 8bit to 7bit conversion. But I will need to look at more malformed messages to determine what the problem is. So for now I will continue to import them as is, but it would be nice if I could fix the problem via sql if it is at all possible.

Kevin

Since the RC is out should I wait or try and fumble installing this hack now? :D

I've got it running on RC2 - no problems.

Allan: two things: does the graphical interface work still? And....are you using the gateway.php that was recently posted or the one in post 1?

thanks.

The graphical interface doesn't work in vB3. No biggie, though - the information's stored in the database. I didn't even have to edit it :)

You have to use the gateway.php that's on page 44. All I did was edit the signature routines a little to suit personal preferences and away it went. I'm running the cron job every hour just to make sure it works - I've posted through the interface and it appears to work just fine.

I upgraded to RC3 today - no problems.

Im getting several errors mainly concerning the vBprefix code:: Could someone please make this an official release within the vB3 Mod. forums ?


Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0 Release Candidate 3:

Invalid SQL: SELECT varname,value FROM nntp_settings
mysql error: Table 'a51834.nntp_settings' doesn't exist

mysql error number: 1146

Date: Thursday 22nd of January 2004 06:32:40 PM
Script: http://www.joeygowdy.com/forum/gateway.php
Referer:
Username: Bro_Joey_Gowdy
IP Address:

My patched gateway.php on page 44 would not work with table prefix. It should not be hard to implement though. I think I will clean it up when the full release is out (if Gilby does not release the official version).