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About Developer · **Released**: 02-19-2002

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).

lifesourcerec · #**167** 03-02-2002, 03:12 AM

I get these errors now:

6 group(s) gatewayed.
200 News.GigaNews.Com (Typhoon v1.2.3)
381 More Authentication Required
502 Failed connection to netblock restricted feed 'cc'
480 Authentication Required
ArrayLogging in to news.tn.comcast.giganews.com, group rec.collecting.cards.discuss
200 News.GigaNews.Com (Typhoon v1.2.3)
381 More Authentication Required
502 Failed connection to netblock restricted feed 'cc'
480 Authentication Required
ArrayLogging in to news.tn.comcast.giganews.com, group rec.collecting.sport.baseball
200 News.GigaNews.Com (Typhoon v1.2.3)
381 More Authentication Required
502 Failed connection to netblock restricted feed 'cc'
480 Authentication Required
ArrayLogging in to news.tn.comcast.giganews.com, group rec.collecting.sport.basketball
200 News.GigaNews.Com (Typhoon v1.2.3)
381 More Authentication Required
502 Failed connection to netblock restricted feed 'cc'
480 Authentication Required
ArrayLogging in to news.tn.comcast.giganews.com, group rec.collecting.sport.football
200 News.GigaNews.Com (Typhoon v1.2.3)
381 More Authentication Required
502 Failed connection to netblock restricted feed 'cc'
480 Authentication Required
ArrayLogging in to news.tn.comcast.giganews.com, group rec.collecting.sport.hockey
200 News.GigaNews.Com (Typhoon v1.2.3)
381 More Authentication Required
502 Failed connection to netblock restricted feed 'cc'
480 Authentication Required
ArrayLogging in to news.tn.comcast.giganews.com, group alt.collecting.autographs

Gilby · #**168** 03-02-2002, 03:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by lifesourcerec
I get these errors now:

That tells me that you can't log in from outside their network. You either need to get another Usenet feed, or set up the script to run from a computer within that network (like installing a local version of vb and the gateway script).

lifesourcerec · #**169** 03-02-2002, 03:20 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gilby

That tells me that you can't log in from outside their network. You either need to get another Usenet feed, or set up the script to run from a computer within that network (like installing a local version of vb and the gateway script).

Heh, oh well.. guess this won't work for me. Been looking for public usenet servers without success.

lifesourcerec · #**170** 03-02-2002, 03:40 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gilby

That tells me that you can't log in from outside their network. You either need to get another Usenet feed, or set up the script to run from a computer within that network (like installing a local version of vb and the gateway script).

Found a public server, but it didn't dump the files in the forums.

lifesourcerec · #**171** 03-02-2002, 04:38 AM

Got it working. IS there a way to filter it to a certain date? Trying to find out how to set showthread to "the beginning" instead of 30 days.

Gilby · #**172** 03-02-2002, 05:05 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by lifesourcerec
Got it working. IS there a way to filter it to a certain date? Trying to find out how to set showthread to "the beginning" instead of 30 days.

In the admin control panel, click on modify under the forums and moderators heading. Then click edit next to the forum you want to do this for, and change the "Default view age" to however many days you want.

saab340 · #**173** 03-02-2002, 05:12 AM

This is the best hack. Period

Now I need a provider, that allows me to also post on the groups.
(I only need 3 groups. text only ie not too much bandwith requirements)

Willing to pay for service, but I'll take the free one if one is around.

E-mail me or PM me your suggestion.

Hopefully one that someone has tested this with.

Thanks

lifesourcerec · #**174** 03-02-2002, 05:23 AM

I found a free one, but the download is SUPER slow. Getting 527 bytes/sec

lifesourcerec · #**175** 03-02-2002, 06:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Erwin
I can say that the webdiscuss.com server works with this script. FANTASTIC!!!

The script doesn't work with my ISP's newserver though. I will need to search for a free one...

If you fine a fast free one, let me know. I found one, but getting as low as 448 bytes/sec transfer. Taking forever.

lifesourcerec · #**176** 03-02-2002, 06:36 PM

I run crobtab crontab.txt , but show this error in e-mail:

Quote:

/bin/sh: no closing quote

Gilby · #**177** 03-02-2002, 06:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by lifesourcerec
I run crobtab crontab.txt , but show this error in e-mail:

What's in your crontab.txt?

mood · #**178** 03-02-2002, 06:46 PM

FEATURE REQUEST:

Gilby,
Now that you have put such a great gateway together, do you think you could add the feature to gate the messages to a mailing list?
THAT would be THE BEST!

Pls contact me "off forum" if you'd like some "extra" support"

Mood

lifesourcerec · #**179** 03-02-2002, 06:46 PM

25,50 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx -source "http://www.collectorempire.com/forums/gateway.php?log=cron

Gilby · #**180** 03-02-2002, 06:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by lifesourcerec
25,50 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx -source "http://www.collectorempire.com/forums/gateway.php?log=cron

you are missing the " at the end of that line.

lifesourcerec · #**181** 03-02-2002, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gilby

you are missing the " at the end of that line.

Ok. Thanks

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