[RELEASE] Usenet Gateway for vB 2.01

Description:

This hack provides a gateway to selected usenet groups. The entire usenet group is mirrored locally. Posts submitted locally to mirrored newsgroups will also be sent out to usenet. A single perl script is executed via cron that collects news and posts any outgoing articles. Incoming messages are parsed against customizable spam filters and threaded correctly before being placed in your forums. By default, no personal information is sent to usenet other than the posters username and whatever you have globally configured as a footer and organization. The option does exist for a user to include a custom email to use for usenet posts. After initial installation (which involves creating some new tables, adding a few columns to existing vB tables, and entering the database connection information to the news script) configuration is completed via the vB control panel.

• See it in action at dBforums.com (usenet forums are at the bottom)
• Download latest version for vB 2.2.4

Current version is 20020323 for vB2.xx

Current feature list:

• correct threading of outgoing posts on usenet
• full control panel integration
• email notification to usenet replies
• emoticon translation into vb icons
• vb code removal or conversion prior to posting to usenet
• hyperlinked urls in messages
• color coded, italicized & indented quotes
• vB style quote to usenet style quote conversions for outgoing posts
• logging of outgoing posts
• support for multiple news servers
• support for seperate footers per forum in outgoing posts
• multi-language (selectable) handling of quoted MIME printable headers (for all those funny foreign characters)
• handling of mailing archive groups
• flexible spam control and replacement variable options for incoming and outgoing messages
• configurable auto-expire option
• option for users to show email address in their outgoing usenet posts (may be different than normal one in profile
• option to enable/disable user signatures on outgoing posts.
• fully compatible with vB moderation functions

Still to be done:

• canceling of messages after they have been sent to usenet via control message in accordance with RFC1036.
• binary attachment support
• email to PM gateway

Screeshots:
Main Options
More Options
Configuration of Newsgroups
Add New Newsgroups
Spam Control
What an imported usenet article looks like in vB

The latest version of this hack will always be in this first post of the thread.

Before asking questions in this thread, please read all the posts in this thread. If your question goes unanswered, it will probably be because the question has already been answered countless times in this thread.

This hack was created for use on my forums and will only be supported as time permits.


Links to required Perl Modules

• News::NNTPClient
• Net::SMTP
• MIME::WordDecoder
• Text::AutoFormat
• Mail::Address
• URI::Find
• DBI
• DBD::MySQL
• Date::Parse
• HTML::Entities

[bitbender]

Yep, thas what it means...The module package did not install cleanly. That is the current impasse I am fighting thru.

I had downloaded Perl5.6.1, and was using that on my test server. to date, I have been quite unable to get the modules to install using MCPAN.

AS I tell my team at work, "It's a work in Progress"

[FlyBoy73]

Is anyone actively working on the compatibility issue? I am also running 2.2.0 and would really like to have this hack..

David

[Erwin]

I'm running 2.2.2 and would love to install this, but I'm holding back because other members seem to indicate it does not work for 2.2.x

[Gilby]

Originally posted by dFrisk
Is anyone actively working on the compatibility issue? I am also running 2.2.0 and would really like to have this hack..

David

I have written a php version (that works on vB 2.2.2, and possibly earlier versions), a complete rewrite of the hack (tailored to my needs) that I just need to make portable and then package it up. Hopefully I'll get that available tonight for everyone.

[dost]

Originally posted by Gilby
I have written a php version (that works on vB 2.2.2, and possibly earlier versions), a complete rewrite of the hack (tailored to my needs) that I just need to make portable and then package it up. Hopefully I'll get that available tonight for everyone.

Wow, that's wonderful! Does it mean that it won't require any perl modules? And I hope that it will work on vB 2.0.3, too :cry:

[Sanjiyan]

Originally posted by Gilby


I have written a php version (that works on vB 2.2.2, and possibly earlier versions), a complete rewrite of the hack (tailored to my needs) that I just need to make portable and then package it up. Hopefully I'll get that available tonight for everyone.

if it dont need perl then you are a god send and I shall shower you in boxes of roses as a thank you

so when you gonna make this unoffical updated hack available ;p

come on hurry it up, you have us all waiting now you know.

[bitbender]

Doesn't need Perl?, what will I do ?? I've spent days mastering a miniscule knowledge of the subject, and now, it's all for naught??

I can't wait to see one without the Perl !!


Ohh, and we'll send you a truckload of Texas BBq ribs !!

[Sanjiyan]

Originally posted by bitbender
Doesn't need Perl?,

I seriously hope it dont, cos I cant run cron from my host, nor any other without payng mega'quids for, considering I onyl want to pull posts from a moderated group that posts maybe 20 posts a day :P

[Gilby]

No perl is needed. It's all in PHP. Athough it does require PEAR since it uses a (modified) NNTP class from that. PEAR should be available on most PHP installations, but I can probably change the code to not require it, so if that requirement happens to be a problem, then it's not hard to change it.

[Gilby]

The PHP version of the NNTP gateway is now available at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=35247