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).

[Gardener]

Originally posted by qnx
is this hack dead?
I noticed the author (Gilby) hadn't said a word in the forum for more than three months.
Lots of questions/suggestions left unanswered.

I think so. His last post was on 10-26-02.

[nuno]

Whenever i run gateway.php i always get an error, looks like a connection timeout.
It prompts me to download gateway.php, i get messages from 1999 until 2000, about 200K of data and then times out.
If i rerun gateway.php again, all messages are duplicated.
What am i missing? :help:

[nuno]

Whenever i run gateway.php i always get an error, looks like a connection timeout.
It prompts me to download gateway.php, i get messages from 1999 until 2000, about 200K of data and then times out.
If i rerun gateway.php again, all messages are duplicated.
What am i missing? :help:

[nuno]

Whenever i run gateway.php i always get an error, looks like a connection timeout.
It prompts me to download gateway.php, i get messages from 1999 until 2000, about 200K of data and then times out.
If i rerun gateway.php again, all messages are duplicated.
What am i missing? :help:

[Gardener]

Originally posted by nuno
Whenever i run gateway.php i always get an error, looks like a connection timeout.
It prompts me to download gateway.php, i get messages from 1999 until 2000, about 200K of data and then times out.
If i rerun gateway.php again, all messages are duplicated.
What am i missing? :help:

Are you talking about downloading messages from the year 1999 and 2000? How many messages are you trying to download?

[nuno]

About 27,000.
I get all the messages prior to June 2000, that's about 600 posts.
Then i get a message saying the connection to the host was reset.
I can't get any messages after June 2000.

[nuno]

About 27,000.
I get all the messages prior to June 2000, that's about 600 posts.
Then i get a message saying the connection to the host was reset.
I can't get any messages after June 2000.

[nuno]

About 27,000.
I get all the messages prior to June 2000, that's about 600 posts.
Then i get a message saying the connection to the host was reset.
I can't get any messages after June 2000.

[nuno]

About 27,000.
I get all the messages prior to June 2000, that's about 600 posts.
Then i get a message saying the connection to the host was reset.
I can't get any messages after June 2000.

[Dean C]

Test

[Xenon]

another test

[Gardener]

Originally posted by nuno
About 27,000.
I get all the messages prior to June 2000, that's about 600 posts.
Then i get a message saying the connection to the host was reset.
I can't get any messages after June 2000.

It sounds like a problem with your news provider, not the script. One not though, if you are trying to do this on a shared server you do know that your host is going to drop you soon don't you? This mod can be very resource intensive. I'm on a dedicated server with dual PIII with 512 MB ram and a 27000 post dump will just about bring my server down.

[nuno]

Originally posted by Gardener


It sounds like a problem with your news provider, not the script. One not though, if you are trying to do this on a shared server you do know that your host is going to drop you soon don't you? This mod can be very resource intensive. I'm on a dedicated server with dual PIII with 512 MB ram and a 27000 post dump will just about bring my server down.

It's a Dedicated Server.
The news server is news.php.net.

[nuno]

Originally posted by Gardener


It sounds like a problem with your news provider, not the script. One not though, if you are trying to do this on a shared server you do know that your host is going to drop you soon don't you? This mod can be very resource intensive. I'm on a dedicated server with dual PIII with 512 MB ram and a 27000 post dump will just about bring my server down.

It's a Dedicated Server.
The news server is news.php.net.

[Gardener]

The news server is news.php.net.

You are never going to get it downloaded. It's just too much. I tried downloading php.general on a test server here at home with a P4 and 1 gig of ram and it choked on the amount of data. There are just too many posts there to download them all. Your best bet is to go back about 6 months and get a post number and enter that number for the last post number.