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This hack provides a gateway to any NNTP newsgroup such as those from Usenet and other newsgroup servers. Selected newsgroups are imported from your news server and post on the forum are sent out to the newsgroup. This hack was greatly inspired by fastforward's usenet gateway hack. This one is a complete rewrite of that hack written in PHP and works with vB 2.2.2.
Installation: Installation is pretty simple. No modifications to the vB php files are needed and it simply consists of dropping in the files to your forums directory, running the SQL modifications, and modifying the newsgroup settings for your desired newsgroups. For the complete installation details, read the readme.txt file. Here are some of the features:
For control panel integration, please check out GameCrash's Graphical Interface addition. What's not in it that was in fastforward's usenet gateway hack:
There is still lots that I'd like to add to it, but this is competely functional for basic newsgroup gateway support. It is most likely not free of bugs.  If you have questions, suggestions or annoyances, please post in this thread.vb3 support lierduh modified this to provide support for the beta versions of vb3. When the release candidates of vb3 come out, I plan to add support for vb3 and add other features to this hack. If you have suggestions for new features, let me know. E-mail gateway support New in this version, you can now gateway with an email list. This will fetch emails from a POP email account and send via php's mail function to the mailing list's email address. To set up the list, in the newsgroup field, enter in the email address to send outgoing posts to. In the server field, enter in the pop3 server, and in the username and password fields enter in, you guessed it, the username and password to your pop account. Note: the email gateway capabilities has not been fully tested, so it might not work with your POP server. Also, it does not work in combo with a news<->forum gateway in the same forum (you can use either kind though in differnet forums within your forums). Show Your Support
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#382
05-22-2002, 06:06 PM
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I installed this hack at www.tourc.com for automotive forums..... I love it...
I'm just in the process of mirroring all the automotive groups... it takes a while to catch up with the groups the first few runs of newnews.pl, but is super quick after that... I noticed very little bandwidth increase at all!..... barley enough to measure.... in fact the full mirror (I'm about half done, but I've done some huge groups with 45,000 messages per group and more) of all the automotive groups around 150 or 200 groups will be about 500meg of bandwidth.... (half gig) thats not much, and the runs of newnews.pl after the first mirror take almost no bandwidth.... the biggest problem I encountered was that I had so many groups and messages my searchindex table started getting out of hand... It reached about a gig, and I was only a quarter done, so I killed all the records and set the nntp options to not index the groups that are based on newsgroups and only index local groups.... no that that is done, my whole dbase is arround 40 meg as of may 22, but should be around 80 or so when done!... the only bandwidth increase I can really see after the initial mirror is done, is all the newsgroup visitors coming to my site!  excellent hack or whatever... thanx! NOTE: if you want to test the hack you can at my site www.tourc.ca and use the following username and pass username: testuser password: testuser enjoy! 
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#383
05-23-2002, 07:23 PM
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I love this hack, It seems to take hardly anyspace or bandwidth on my server however i do have 1 small question.
I have 2 newsgroups in a private forum but it has added all the newsgroups to the post count. Is there anyway i can have these 2 forums taken off the post count???? Any ideas???? Phil www.gamblingforums.net
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#384
05-31-2002, 05:49 PM
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I hardly think my small addition qualifies as a hack, as I wrote it in about 3 minutes; but here is a very simple way to have users post via the gateway via their regular email address, and not one put together from makeshift message-id.
In gateway.php, search for, Code:
$get_userinfo=$DB_site->query("SELECT signature,usertitle,customtitle FROM user WHERE userid=$newthread[userid] LIMIT 1");
$userinfo=$DB_site->fetch_array($get_userinfo);
$signature = "\n--\n";
$signature .= $newthread[username];
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$get_userinfo=$DB_site->query("SELECT signature,usertitle,customtitle,email FROM user WHERE userid=$newthread[userid] LIMIT 1");
$userinfo=$DB_site->fetch_array($get_userinfo);
$signature = "\n--\n";
$signature .= $newthread[username];
$my_email = $userinfo[email];
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if ($grouptype=='news'){
$response = $news->post($cat . unhtmlspecialchars($newthread[title]),$group[newsgroup], "$newthread[username] <$msgid>", $message,"Date: ".date("D, j M Y H:i:s O",$newthread[dateline])."\r\nMessage-ID: <$msgid>\r\nOrganization: $settings[organization]\r\nUser-Agent: $settings[useragent]\r\nX-Newsreader: $settings[useragent]\r\nX-Originating-IP: $newthread[ipaddress]$ref");
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if ($grouptype=='news'){
$response = $news->post($cat . unhtmlspecialchars($newthread[title]),$group[newsgroup], "$newthread[username] <$my_email>", $message,"Date: ".date("D, j M Y H:i:s O",$newthread[dateline])."\r\nMessage-ID: <$msgid>\r\nOrganization: $settings[organization]\r\nUser-Agent: $settings[useragent]\r\nX-Newsreader: $settings[useragent]\r\nX-Originating-IP: $newthread[ipaddress]$ref");
System Administrator Asarian-host.org --- "If you were supposed to understand it, we wouldn't call it code." - FedEx
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#385
06-06-2002, 02:27 PM
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Forgive my being stupid, but where it says "Go into your database and modify the settings in the nntp_settings table." I don't know what to do. I don't know crap about SQL, and our host decided to disable Telnet for us because it's "safer."
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#386
06-06-2002, 02:28 PM
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Oh, and i use phpMyAdmin.
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#387
06-06-2002, 02:41 PM
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If you use the graphical interface (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=36475) you don't need to know any sql...
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#388
06-06-2002, 06:22 PM
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Thanks for the hack. Only problem is I don't know how to find a usenet group's server. Also, I keep getting an error saying that thread.msgid does not exist.
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#390
06-13-2002, 06:08 PM
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I have been trying to get this hack to work for the last two days. I have read through every post in this thread, but could not find a solution. I have been using the admin interface supplied by GameCrash to setup newsgroug/forum details. I'm having the same problem that many people reported. Everything seems fine except that when I run gateway.php, I get nothing in the forum. After a few seconds I get the message:
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I tried some of the debugging suggestions here, including the error reporting line in gateway.php and the last nntp.php debug version that Gilby posted. With those I get Quote:
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#391
06-13-2002, 09:14 PM
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I did a clean install of vBulletin 2.2.5 on a test system (PHP 4.2.0 and MySQL 3.23.49-nt). I installed NNTP hack 1.9 without installing the admin interface. I used phpMyAdmin to set it per the readme.txt files. Same problem. Everything seems OK, but no forum is ever created and no threads are imported.
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