Version: 1.00, by Gilby
Developer Last Online: Apr 2013
Version: 2.2.x
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Released: 02-19-2002
Last Update: Never
Installs: 71
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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:
Real cool vbcode to text conversion!
All posts are inserted, even if parent thread cannot be found for replies
Guests posts also get sent to the newsgroup.
Importing of attachments from the newsgroup
Poll info sent to newsgroup
Attachment link sent to newsgroup
Supports unlimited newsgroups and servers.
email notification of new replies, just like regular forum posts
Can import HTML messages and convert to limited vb code.
Does not allow custom email address to be used via the users option
No spam control or string replacement support.
No purging or autoexpire.
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).
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New release and new thread. I have released the gateway to the vB3 section of the forums. Thank you very much Gilby for allowing me to do so. Please post to the new thread for support and questions.
New release and new thread. I have released the gateway to the vB3 section of the forums. Thank you very much Gilby for allowing me to do so. Please post to the new thread for support and questions.
I also used Newsranger for the past 4 months. Recently I learned that the Newsranger.com is going to close at the end of this month, so I need to change services. Is there anything out there that is comparable? That is known to work with this hack? Newsranger was around $5 a month for a minimal account, which met my needs Newsranger used recurring paypal billing.
I really need read & write access to only one newsgroup - rec.arts.bonsai, and no binaries required.
I tried your example server (microsoft that you gave as an example). With that one it works.
However, I am trying to get this one to work but with no luck. It seems that my settings are correct though. It is a google one:
Newsgroup name: alt.music.pearl-jam
Server name: groups.google.com
That doesn't work though.
Is there something I did wrong? I know that these are stupid questions but I think I have done everything correct as the example server you mentioned in your readme file worked perfectly.
What SQL modifications does the NNTP hack do ?
I got the following error:
Quote:
nvalid SQL:
SELECT post.*, thread.*,
post.dateline AS postdateline, post.msgid AS postmsgid,
thread.title AS threadtitle, post.visible AS postvisible,
thread.visible AS threadvisible
FROM vb_post as post LEFT JOIN vb_thread as thread
ON (thread.threadid = post.threadid
AND post.userid = thread.postuserid
AND post.postid = thread.firstpostid)
WHERE post.isusenetpost = 0
AND post.postid > 49509
AND thread.forumid = 32
mysql error: Unknown column 'post.msgid' in 'field list'
mysql error number: 1054
Date: Friday 15th of July 2005 03:43:34 PM
I have a field postid but I don't have a field msgid.
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05-15-2004, 03:07 PM
