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NNTP Gateway for Usenet ( Newsgroups ), Mailing Lists
Developer Last Online: Nov 2023
The latest version: V3.5.0Alpha 1 (21 Jul 2005)
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 was originally coded by Gilby for vB2. I modified the hack to work with vB3 and have been maintaining and improving the hack. I have now done the modification for this to work with vB3.5. The very original hack by Gilby can be found here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...7&page=1&pp=15 The vB3 version can be found here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=65152 Features Some of the features and improvement include:
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What do you need and do not need? You do not need to edit vB php files. No need to manually 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. It is not a must to click "INSTALL" for this hack if you use it, I do try better answering the questions from people who do. Support Please post your support questions to this thread. Please check the FAQ in the second post within this thread first. It may be surprising, but it is possible your question is answered in the adminCP NNTP settings. Please always provide more details about your problem. Examples and debug messages will certainly help. Well, if you don't even try to have some effort to compose your question, the answer you get may also not include much effort. ================== UPDATES ====================== Jul 21 2005 (release version 3.5.0 Alpha 1) AdminCP xml file is written by Kadence.
Quick installation instruction: 1) Upload files to their correct directory 2) Enter AdminCP, click on NNTP Settings once to install/upgrade. Change settings to your like. 3) Click on NNTP Groups once to install/upgrade. 3a) For new install. Run once http://www.yourdomain.com/setlastmsg.php Delete this file afterwards. If you are upgrading from an older version. There is no need to upload this file. Actually this file should not be there except brand new install. 4) Manually run in debug mode: http://forums.yourdomain.com/gateway.php?debug=1 Show Your Support
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You have an empty forum. Make one post or do not delete the first post.
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I'm sorry but I have read the description and still can't figure out what this hack does!
any quick description please :ermm: |
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I sooooo there once this is in a stable release. Great stuff!!
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tried nntp_gw_V3_5_alpha1 WITH VB3.5.0
After installation, the gateway.php is not running |
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I don't understand what this mod do!!!!!!
explain plz |
#117
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I am planning to use VB with this MOD to archive a Mailman-based mailing list.
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#118
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I plan to use this mod for mailing list archive.
In the readme file, it says: Warning: Make sure using the new forums you created in step '3.', don't associate any of your existing forums to a newsgroup, otherwise all posts currently in there will be exported, so be careful. But if set Send message to USENET send_message=0, would this help? What happens if I set this to 1 at a later date? Will everything in the forum be sent? By the way, this mod doesn't seem to support IMAP. Or does it? |
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another question:
for example in outlook i subscribe a microsoft.public.access newsgroup. the posting which i see is 15768, this number of posting should equal with the posts in front of my forum, and its not the same count of postings. in newsgroup_settings i add a newsgroup with last message at count 0, the cronjob is starting gateway.php, and at the and of the import process they count at 5187, like simple mathematics -> 15768 ./. 5187 = 10581 and now where are the postings about 10581? i definitly start at count 0, why the script doesn't import all postings? is there a dependance to the newsserver i connect? i mean is this the reason? is there anybody with same tricky problem? thx in advance |
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I think this is a great mod and I really want to get it working. But, I need it to support IMAP. I've installed the vB Mail Reply mod and that works with IMAP. The mod includes the file vbemailreply.php which includes code for checking IMAP email. Perhaps we can try to incorporate that into gateway.php?
My PHP skills are very very limited but I'll try to figure it out when I have some time. Maybe someone else can help? |
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is it possible to get support for yenc encoded messages? Becuase I import picture groups like alt.binary.automobiles and about 1 of every 4 messages is sent using yenc and what happens is the stuff gets all turned into the body of the post.
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