NNTP Gateway (Usenet/Newsgroups)

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.

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:

• No control panel integration at the moment. (Available separately)
• Does not support separate footers
• 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).

[fechten]

Installed and this works great for pulling down the NNTP feed, but when I try to reply to a usenet thread from the forum and then sync it up I get:

441 Posting Failed (Message-ID doesn't conform to NNTP standards)

I have html, vb code, smilies, and icons turned off for the nntp forum. Is there any other config that I should do or do posts from vb to usenet not work with this gateway?

Thanks,
Craig

[SRozhon]

Thank you so much for those pics Sanjiyan! They helped me figure out what I was doing wrong. Great idea!! Oh, and this is an awesome hack Gilby! Thanks!!

[SRozhon]

Originally posted by Gilby


It should now work with every server, and if it doesn't let me know.

I think I have it set up right now, but I keep getting an IE message that says it isn't able to connect. I am using my isp server. Is that the problem?

When I try to syncronise manually with the GUI by gateway I get this error message:
Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/admin/adminfunctions.php:19) in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/gateway.php on line 20

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare stripslashesarray() in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/admin/global.php on line 33

Please help! This is the coolest hack I've seen yet!! :bunny:

[SRozhon]

ok, I took everything out and started over. This time I used the GUI by gamecrash. I am no longer getting the above error this time, but get this now instead.

2 group(s) gatewayed.
Could not connect to NNTP-serverLogging in to netnews.insightbb.com, group comp.graphics.apps.photoshop
Not connectedNot connectedCould not connect to NNTP-serverLogging in to netnews.insightbb.com, group comp.graphics.apps.paint-shop-pro
Not connectedNot connected

I'm not sure why it isn't connecting. I think it is set up right. Anyone have any suggestions??

[certify]

This is exaclky what I am looking for.

Great script!

[Gardener]

This is the first hack I have tried to install for VB, and I love it. The install went well with very few problems, except for one of the news groups I added. I added alt.binaries.pictures.gardens as one of the groups, and most of the pictures just show up as a page full of characters instead of the actual picture. I don't think this is a script problem, but rather a problem of not having something installed in either Apache or PHP to decode these pictures. Can someone give me a hand.

Thanks

[Gilby]

Originally posted by Gardener
I don't think this is a script problem, but rather a problem of not having something installed in either Apache or PHP to decode these pictures. Can someone give me a hand.

This is an incompatibility with script where it does not support attachments that are not mime attachments and are uuencoded, which is what OE does for attachments.

[Gardener]

Thanks. I noticed that some of the pictures do show up as attachments, but most don't. I'll just have to remove that group. Thanks for your help.

[Gardener]

Is there any way to attach a footer to the end of postings made from my site and posted to usenet? Such as "Posted via my website".

[Gardener]

Originally posted by Gardener
Is there any way to attach a footer to the end of postings made from my site and posted to usenet? Such as "Posted via my website".

Anyone?