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NNTP Gateway for Usenet ( Newsgroups ), Mailing Lists
Developer Last Online: Nov 2023
The latest version: V2.3.2 (31 Oct 2004)
What is it? This hack provides a gateway from vBulletin forums to the USENET. It allows forum members to read newsgroup messages as well as to send posts to the newsgroups. In a nutshell, it turns vBulletin forums into a basic function news reader. For an added bonus, this package also supports mailing list archive and forum to mailing list gateway. The software retrieves messages from a pop3 account and import them into the forums threaded. It also allows a forums user to send messages to the mailing list by the forum posting interface. Why? The gateway will be appreciated by forum members who do not know how to set up a news reader, or people who do not have port 119 open in their network. A forum interface to read and post news are often considered to be better than a news reader. The gateway adds more contents to your forums and allows the members to interact with wider audience. It is common to see new users signing up to use this feature. History This hack is basically a hacked vB2 NNTP gateway written by Gilby to work with vB3. The original hack can be found here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...7&page=1&pp=15 Features Some of the features and improvement include:
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What do you need and do not need? You do not need to edit vB php files if you use two bookmarks You need to edit one vB php file to insert two lines of code if you want direct click links within AdminCP. No need to run SQL. Installation Basically the AdminCP interfaces take care of installation as well as upgrade in the background. Back up your database first. The scripts can modify your database without alerting you! Please follow the instructions in the readme.txt file for more details. Support Please post your support questions to this thread. Please check the FAQ in the third post within this thread first. ================== UPDATES ====================== Jul 31 2004 (release version 2.2.0)
Please note, when you manually run the script, you must turn on the debug mode. Otherwise nothing will be displayed on the screen. To run as debug mode: http://forums.yourdomain.com/gateway.php?debug=1 25 Oct 2004
31 Oct 2004 Fixed bugs running the gateway by the vB3 Scheduled Tasks 1 March 2004 Uploaded the new zip file. It contains one or two bug fixes. Show Your Support
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When I run the Gateway.php file via telnet I keep getting this error-
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Thanks again for all the work, -Jason |
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If your php is running as cgi, what version? I remember reading somewhere about problems with php running as cgi. The newer version of php fixes that. Also check your web error log. |
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I have the latest PHP and its not running as CGI for sure. I have tried both, via telnet and with the browser. I didnt want to put it into cron until I got the messages downloaded for the first time.
If I run it via shell it will tell me about the segmentation error, if I run it via the browser it just says that its getting message # 231456 and then quits. Thanks again for all of the help!!!!!! -Jason P.s. Great hack! |
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You can always manually change the lastmsgid in the control panel to be higher than 231456, so that it will bypass this article and only get the aritcles with higher message id. |
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Thanks! It was that message I think. I had it skip that one and now it is working.
Thanks!!!!! -Jason |
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Looking at the header of my outgoing messages, I see that my email address is being scrambled by adding several characters to the end of my name (eg, BustaCap.17laj@site.com). Also, the domain is wrong too (as per the "email address domain in the NNTP Gateway settings). This is great for posts going to newsgroups, but it is preventing me from sending posts to email lists that require a confirmed email address.
Would it be possible to keep the option of scrambling the email address for posts going to newsgroups but allowing for propper email addresses to go out to email lists? If both options aren't possible, perhaps just the ability to have a proper email address go out. Thanks, BC |
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First of all I?ve gotta say, thank you.
The hack is running without any problems and the installation went like a charme. So far, so good.. But now I?ve got some serious problems with other things. I?m living and running my site here in germany and the newsgroups we want to im- and export the postings to/from need correct headers so that outgoing postings to ng?s are available on the newsserver. These are restrictions we simply have to obey. What am I asking for ? By now the headers of forum to newsserver-postings are loking like this: Quote:
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Regards & TIA, Marv. |
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Has anyone seriously given more thought to the Filter idea? I would love to get that on my site since I primarily want the military realted newsgroups but not all the anti-bush spam that ruins them.
Thanks alot for the hard work, -Jason |
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Insert these lines after that: "\r\nMime-Version: 1.0\r\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit" . should work although not tested. I must say it is quite strange that you need to have these to be able to post to the ng. |
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