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NNTP Gateway for Usenet ( Newsgroups ), Mailing Lists · **Released**: 05-14-2004

The latest version: V2.3.2 (31 Oct 2004)

What is it?

This hack provides a gateway from vBulletin forums to the USENET. It allows forum members to read newsgroup messages as well as to send posts to the newsgroups. In a nutshell, it turns vBulletin forums into a basic function news reader.

For an added bonus, this package also supports mailing list archive and forum to mailing list gateway. The software retrieves messages from a pop3 account and import them into the forums threaded. It also allows a forums user to send messages to the mailing list by the forum posting interface.

Why?

The gateway will be appreciated by forum members who do not know how to set up a news reader, or people who do not have port 119 open in their network. A forum interface to read and post news are often considered to be better than a news reader.

The gateway adds more contents to your forums and allows the members to interact with wider audience. It is common to see new users signing up to use this feature.

History

This hack is basically a hacked vB2 NNTP gateway written by Gilby to work with vB3. The original hack can be found here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...7&page=1&pp=15

Features

Some of the features and improvement include:

Handles both newsgroup posts and mailing lists.
Handles MIME encoded messages and attachment.
Handles UUEncoded messages.
Two Admin Control Panels for all settings.
Automated installation.
Correct thread implementation. All imported messages and posts sent to newsgroups will be threaded correctly according to References and Message-ID headers.
Optional setting to thread by subject for mailing lists that strip references header.
Supports TABLE_PREFIX.
Imported messages will be searchable just like normal forum posts.
Similar threads are built when the messages are imported if the system setting is on.
Multiple attachments importing.
Save attachment to database or file according to vB setting.
Thumbnail created while importing image files.
Multiple attachment post to newsgroup is also supported.
Selectable X-No-Archive header honouring system.
Light on system resources.
Global Killfile to filter out unwanted messages. Killfiles can have OR and AND effectiveness.
Strip footer by setting for incoming messages. Strips out repeated message footers.
Built options to disable signatures and footers for out going messages.

Future development

AdminCP interfaces. (completed)
Installation/upgrade script. (completed, coded into AdminCP)
Traditional "> " lead posting interface.

What do you need and do not need?

You do not need to edit vB php files if you use two bookmarks
You need to edit one vB php file to insert two lines of code if you want direct click links within AdminCP.
No need to run SQL.

Installation

Basically the AdminCP interfaces take care of installation as well as upgrade in the background. Back up your database first. The scripts can modify your database without alerting you!

Please follow the instructions in the readme.txt file for more details.

Support

Please post your support questions to this thread. Please check the FAQ in the third post within this thread first.

================== UPDATES ======================
Jul 31 2004 (release version 2.2.0)

Provided option of not importing attachments
Provided option of pause between messages
Provided option of not sending messages to USENET
Provided mechanism to skip importing a message if it was crashed on it
Provided "Default Footer" option
Provided strip_footer function for mailing lists
(written originally by KevinM)
Provided Killfile functions with Header/Body/AND/OR settings
Provided ability to thread messages by subject for mailing lists
Provided ability to use a single POP3 account for different mailing lists
(use prefix)
Merged KevinM's attachment routine, save thumbnail to hard drive
as vB3.0.3
Official support to have the script run by Scheduled Tasks
Many bug fixes

Please note, when you manually run the script, you must turn on the debug mode. Otherwise nothing will be displayed on the screen.

To run as debug mode: http://forums.yourdomain.com/gateway.php?debug=1

25 Oct 2004

Provided the option of sending posts using the real email address
Provided the option of sending posts using a fixed email address for
each group.
Posts are now held back if they are in the moderating queue
Scheduled task log is now working
Provided the option of sending the debug messages to the vB3 cron log
Bug fixes

31 Oct 2004

Fixed bugs running the gateway by the vB3 Scheduled Tasks

1 March 2004

Uploaded the new zip file. It contains one or two bug fixes.

Highlander · #92 05-23-2004, 06:26 AM

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:

Code:

<b>Warning</b>:  Wrong parameter count for rtrim() in <b>/www/home93/html/board/includes/nntp.php</b> on line <b>132</b><br>

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

PHP Code:


			
     $line = rtrim(fgets($this->fp), "\r\n");

thank fpr the help, i think we are nearly on a working script

Highlander · #93 05-23-2004, 06:43 AM

okai i fixed it but maybe not really correctly

changed this lines:

PHP Code:


			
    $post = '';
    while(!feof($this->fp)) {
        //$line = trim(fgets($this->fp, 256));
        //Took out the length, some lines are longer than that
     $line = rtrim(fgets($this->fp), "\r\n");

to this lines:

PHP Code:


			
    $post = '';
    while(!feof($this->fp)) {
        $line = trim(fgets($this->fp, 256));
        //Took out the length, some lines are longer than that
     //$line = rtrim(fgets($this->fp), "\r\n");

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

Questions

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.
Why i cant call gateway.php for 30 minutes after it loaded out and imported successfully articles from the groups?
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

mcncyo · #94 05-23-2004, 11:04 AM

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.

lierduh · #95 05-23-2004, 12:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Highlander

$line = rtrim(fgets($this->fp), "\r\n");[/php]
Questions

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.
Why i cant call gateway.php for 30 minutes after it loaded out and imported successfully articles from the groups?
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

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.

lierduh · #96 05-23-2004, 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinM

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.

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

chas_h · #97 05-23-2004, 09:22 PM

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!

Erwin · #98 05-24-2004, 01:07 AM

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?

lierduh · #99 05-24-2004, 01:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Erwin

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.

Odoin · #**100** 05-24-2004, 02:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Imhotep

Good idea, Allan... I am going to look into it.

thanks!

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?

Mike11212 · #**101** 05-24-2004, 02:45 AM

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.

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