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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Originally posted by Brian Cruz Every thread I look at has a msgid value of <Matthew.Hunter.2anka@toonzone.net>, even non-newsgroup threads. Matthew Hunter is the name of one if my users. Any idea why this is?
Well, I don't use the msgid column in the thread table for anything. Although, I do update it and it must be doing it incorrectly. Small artifact from moving from fastforward's hack. I'll have to change that in the next release, but it causes no problems except taking up a little space and a little processor time.
Well, I don't use the msgid column in the thread table for anything. Although, I do update it and it must be doing it incorrectly. Small artifact from moving from fastforward's hack. I'll have to change that in the next release, but it causes no problems except taking up a little space and a little processor time.
Okay. One other thing I noticed is when a user of mine named Babs&Buster4EvR makes a post, his name shows up in the newsgroup as Babs& Buster4EvR, and the e-mail is BabsampBuster4EvR.2akbm@toonzone.net. It seems to be converting the ampersand to HTML. It's not a big deal, but I thought I'd mention it.
BTW, do you plan on adding a custom newsgroup e-mail option someday? That's probably the one thing I miss most from FastForward's hack.
Originally posted by Brian Cruz BTW, do you plan on adding a custom newsgroup e-mail option someday? That's probably the one thing I miss most from FastForward's hack.
What did he have in his hack? My plan is to make an email to PM gateway where someone could reply to the post made on the newsgroup privately and it'd go in the forums as a PM. I was also going to make it where the email address only worked for a week, which is why I callled it as timelimit.whatever.com for the domain. However, that might take a while to roll out as i'm woring on other projects.
What did he have in his hack? My plan is to make an email to PM gateway where someone could reply to the post made on the newsgroup privately and it'd go in the forums as a PM. I was also going to make it where the email address only worked for a week, which is why I callled it as timelimit.whatever.com for the domain. However, that might take a while to roll out as i'm woring on other projects.
With FastForward's hack, a custom profile field had to be created that would contain a user-specified e-mail address that they wanted to appear in their usenet posts. Each post was sent to the newsgroup with that e-mail address.
The reason I liked that method was that a user could alter their e-mail address to prevent spambots from picking it up (i.e. myname@yahoo-spamblock.com). I worry that your idea may cause spam to end up in people's PM boxes.
Originally posted by Brian Cruz The reason I liked that method was that a user could alter their e-mail address to prevent spambots from picking it up (i.e. myname@yahoo-spamblock.com). I worry that your idea may cause spam to end up in people's PM boxes.
That's the reason that it'd be a time limited address. And it'd bounce any emails that did not have the email address in the to or cc line.
I'm a UNIX idiot and would like to install this hack. I do have access to a shell, but I do not know how to do the first part of this install "running the nntp.sql".
Could anyone give me a hand here? It could be via PM or email to jarvis@mhogaming.com as to keep the thread on-topic.
Originally posted by Gilby 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). [/B]
So does that mena, I can get the forums to pick up email from a pop3 account, ie it can pickup email from a mailbox and automatically post it to a forum for me?
So does that mena, I can get the forums to pick up email from a pop3 account, ie it can pickup email from a mailbox and automatically post it to a forum for me?
That's exactly what it means. It can also send posts to an email address too.
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03-30-2002, 01:01 AM
I do have access to a shell, but I do not know how to do the first part of this install "running the nntp.sql". 
