Spot the NT user here.

Newsgroup names are case-sensitive. Have changed my newsgroups to lower case and it seems to be working now!!

:D

Hi,

thanks for all,

i can't gateway an POP3 account ...
I can't understand what's the mistake ...

Any idea ?

Hi,

My gateway.php script is doing the job, but it is timing out.

How do I increase the timeout for this script specifically?

Ross

Try a different newserver. Some newservers just don't work with this hack. This hack definitely works. Your newserver settings must be right if you are getting that output page. But the newserver may not allow downloading of messages from an external program like that.

It should now work with every server, and if it doesn't let me know.

Yeah
First I wanted to say thanks to GameCrash for the cool interface addon. I finally got the script running on my bulletin board. I just have 1 problem to work out. When it gets picture files, .jpg's it does not display them as links to a picture it shows up as something like this.
begin 644 Catherine_Bell_02.jpg
M_]C_VP!#``$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`
0$!`0$!`0$!
M`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0'_VP!#`0$!`0$!`
0$!`0$!`0$!
M`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`0$!`
0$!`0$!`0$!
M`0$!`0'_P``1"`#(`FP#`2(``A$!`Q$!_\0`'P```@(#`0$!` 0$`````````
M``D("@8'"P4$`P(!_\0`1!```00"`0,#`P,"`@<%!@<`!`(#! 08!!P@`$1()
etc, etc,

Anybody have any idea on how I can fix this.
Thanks a lot!

Gilby,

Since upgrading to VB 2.2.4 my gated groups show me all messages as though they would be from a user in my Ignore list though none are as they are pseudo gateway "guests"

I'm using your last release with the mail list addition.

Any ideas?

PS: Could you get any results with the three way gateway? (list/nntp/forum)

Thanks for your help

Can you point me at an example of this? I'm still running 2.2.2 here.

Nope, not yet.

Awesome hack, can't wait to get it working :)
Had problems with my isp's news, went on someone's suggestion here and signed-up with mammothnews.net.

Checked the account with outlook... no problems. Still getting the same issues as before (with other news servers)

Help please?

here is what is displayed using showqueries:

Thanks in advance and thanks for the great hack.
In addition, It did work with the test server listed earlier in this thread.

Just to let Gilby know, we are running the 1.9 version of his script and VB 2.2.1 with www.newsranger.com as our news host using a crontab every 15 minutes with about 9,000 usenet messages (100+ added daily), and everything is running great!

I plan on adding a few mailing lists (with the new SMTP support) sometime this weekend and will let you know how it works.

Thanks for the great hack bro!

P.S. We are on our own dedicated server and have not noticed any spikes is processor usage at all. :)

http://www.sportbikeworld.com/status

Disregard! Posts are coming down. Got to thinking about the error about "headers already... " Changed the "last post" number, it started working. :)

New problem.. trying to get a cron job set up and she no work:

sure does look right to me, any ideas?

you need a space between the lynx and -source

One problem I have is that the messages are not added to the correct threads when they have different titles... fastforwards hack does this without problems (I think he uses any messageid or something like this...)

I designed it to do it that way simply because when the subject is changed, most likely it was done because it warrented it's own thread, or maybe it even was supposed to be a new thread.

Go back in this thread and you'll find a change that can be made to change how this works.

Really? I didn't see something like this, sorry. I'll search for it :)

thanks, will give it a try :)
I'm thinking it's not executing a *.php file?

is there a free newsgroup place that i can setup an accout to use this addon? or do i have to pay a site to get access to newsgroups to work with this addon

Trainer - there are a few mentioned in this thread - likely that you'll have to pay for it, but only $10/month or something - worry more about your ISP charges as your database size and bandwidth go through the roof!! ;)

Hello,

How do we stop Usenet postings from appearing when someone clicks on the "New Threads Since Last Visit" link in the forums?

I have installed the hack okay, but received a lot of complaints as my users became lost in the mix between my forum postings and newsgroup postings.

Any ideas how to disable this? Is a hack available? I'd also like to stop them appearing in my Latest Discussion block of vbPortal (but I suspect that's a rather different matter!!!).

Any ideas guys?

Ross

Ditto!

Anybody have an idea on what I have to do so that binary attachments are displayed as pictures and not cryptic code.
Still trying to figure it out.
Thanks

The problem is with uuencoded attachemnts that are not attached using mime. That should give you some stuff to look for, but I'll address this issue in a future release when I have a chance.

Thanks I will check with my hosting company

Anyway to truncate author names ? Either from the newsgroups or ALL authors?

I've noticed that whenever one of my users includes a link in their newsgroup post, it's gets converted to a tinyurl.com link when viewed on the actual group. Can this function be turned off? It's hard for us to promote our site when the link isn't even ours!

Hi,

I'm having problems with my gateway.php script not importing all the posts from the Newsgroup.

Really I only need those in the past 3 months or so, not the entire newsgroup which contains hundreds of thousands it seems(the alt.military newsgroup for example).

I'm getting the message that my script has exceeded it's maximum execution time - so, how do I import all the required newsgroup postings, or limit them to the past x posts in a particular newsgroup?

Thanks for the continued support on this dude,

Cheers for now,

Ross

TinyURl turns your long links into shorter ones that fit nicely into emails and do not wrap. You can adjust the length at when it turns them into a TinyURL by going in the settings and entering in a higher number.

You shouldn't get that error, unless the php installation you are using is running in safe mode, which is likely the case for you. Anyways, you'll need to log into your newsgrop server with another news program and find the id of the message you want to start from and enter that number in the database under the lastmsg column. The number can be found in the header of the message at the end of the Xref line.

Thanks Gilby, I should have realized that!

BTW, I noticed something odd while looking through the database with phpMyAdmin. Every thread I look at has a msgid value of <Matthew.Hunter.2anka@toonzone.net>, even non-newsgroup threads. Matthew Hunter is the name of one if my users. Any idea why this is?

Well, I don't use the msgid column in the thread table for anything. Although, I do update it and it must be doing it incorrectly. Small artifact from moving from fastforward's hack. I'll have to change that in the next release, but it causes no problems except taking up a little space and a little processor time.

Okay. One other thing I noticed is when a user of mine named Babs&Buster4EvR makes a post, his name shows up in the newsgroup as Babs&amp; Buster4EvR, and the e-mail is BabsampBuster4EvR.2akbm@toonzone.net. It seems to be converting the ampersand to HTML. It's not a big deal, but I thought I'd mention it.

BTW, do you plan on adding a custom newsgroup e-mail option someday? That's probably the one thing I miss most from FastForward's hack.

What did he have in his hack? My plan is to make an email to PM gateway where someone could reply to the post made on the newsgroup privately and it'd go in the forums as a PM. I was also going to make it where the email address only worked for a week, which is why I callled it as timelimit.whatever.com for the domain. However, that might take a while to roll out as i'm woring on other projects.

With FastForward's hack, a custom profile field had to be created that would contain a user-specified e-mail address that they wanted to appear in their usenet posts. Each post was sent to the newsgroup with that e-mail address.

The reason I liked that method was that a user could alter their e-mail address to prevent spambots from picking it up (i.e. myname@yahoo-spamblock.com). I worry that your idea may cause spam to end up in people's PM boxes.

That's the reason that it'd be a time limited address. And it'd bounce any emails that did not have the email address in the to or cc line.

I'm a UNIX idiot and would like to install this hack. :) I do have access to a shell, but I do not know how to do the first part of this install "running the nntp.sql".

Could anyone give me a hand here? It could be via PM or email to jarvis@mhogaming.com as to keep the thread on-topic.

Thanks in advance!! :nervous:

Do you have phpMyAdmin? That would make this much easier...

Gamecrash,

I do have PhpMyAdmin... now that being said, I'm still lost. :confused:

Is this a completely new dB that I set up? I'm usually not this helpless, but I find myself needing some exact syntax to get going.

Thanks a million! :D

So does that mena, I can get the forums to pick up email from a pop3 account, ie it can pickup email from a mailbox and automatically post it to a forum for me?

That's exactly what it means. It can also send posts to an email address too.