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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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#902
05-03-2004, 09:23 PM
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#903
05-06-2004, 01:02 AM
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I seem to be having two problems, one of which may be time related.
#1 attachments (pictures) from a binary newsgroup (alt.binaries.3d.lightwave) are coming through as UUE code. Code:
begin 666 Barnyard Ad.jpg M_]C_X `02D9)1@`!`@$`2 !(``#_X2?217AI9@``34T`*@````@`!P$2``,` M```!``$```$:``4````!````8@$;``4````!````:@$H``,`` ``!``(```$Q M``(````;````<@$R``(````4````C8=I``0````!````I ```- ```!(```` M`0```$@````!061O8F4@4&AO=&]S:&]P($-3(%=I;F1O=W,`,C P-#HP-3HP M-" Q,CHQ-CHS-P```````Z !``,````!``$``* "``0````!```!]* #``0` M```!```"B@`````````&`0,``P````$`!@```1H`!0````$```$>`1L`!0`` M``$```$F`2@``P````$``@```@$`! ````$```$N`@(`! ````$``":<```` M`````$@````!````2 ````'_V/_@`!!*1DE&``$"`0!(`$@``/_M``Q!9&]B #2 I have given my test post, from my forum, 30 minutes and it has not yet shown up in the newsgroup. It typically takes ~5 minutes. Any thoughts? I installed the basic 2.x hack and then re-hacked with the new VB3 additions and new gateway.php file. Currently running VB 3.0.1 http://www.cghaus.com
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#904
05-06-2004, 12:38 PM
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Images tend to get coded in two main formats, only one of which is supported by this hack. I have a couple of UU-decode scripts written in PHP which I have tried to integrate with this script with only partial success. My PHP is limited so I couldn't figure out the final issues. (Any volunteers who are familiar with the gateway script want to look at it?) While testing this script, I also came across a 3rd type of encoding (a MAC verison) which would also need to be decoded. Other things to take into account with downloading binaries is that your db will grow very quickly. I was intending to try and integrate another VB hack that stores attachments as files instead of within the db with this script so it just takes up disk space instead.
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#905
05-06-2004, 01:24 PM
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Okay... so, essentially, binaries are not supported. I guess I was misled by the information given with the 1st hack. This isn't too much of a setback... but it sure would be awesome if we could get binary images to come through. I guess yEnc and the Mac format would have to be included.
What about my posts not showing up in the group? I did a test posting from my forum... and then later tried to view it using Outlook Express. (as I normally view the groups) Nothing appeared. thanks
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#907
05-07-2004, 02:05 PM
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Hey, lierduh -
After working flawlessly for almost a year the script just quit. My gateway runs every 15 minutes and has only connected properly once in the last 24 hours. Running it manually, verbose output looks like this: PHP Code:
I'm stumped - any thoughts? Provider is Giganews and Agent works fine.
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#909
05-07-2004, 02:46 PM
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Using the nntp.php that provides verbose output above, you should see where the script is pulling articles - it's not pulling any, has only worked correctly once in the last 24 hours and is stalling at the 4th newsgroup. Too weird.
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#910
05-07-2004, 03:10 PM
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[high]* Bro_Joey_Gowdy waits impatiently for an official vb3 NNTP Gateway[/high]
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#911
05-07-2004, 04:16 PM
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The script works for me. Just a few errors, as double postings. The problem is that this the NG posts are listed as new posts, our members have no difference between NG posts and forumposts
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