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Version: 1.00, by Gilby Gilby is offline
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Released: 02-19-2002 Last Update: Never Installs: 71
 
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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).

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Old 01-25-2003, 06:34 PM
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I'm currently using this hack for newsgroups, and it works great. Now I'm trying to add a mailing list archive, and this is the error I am getting:

POP3: premature NOOP OK, NOT an RFC 1939 Compliant server
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I love this hack. I use it to pull in several newsgroups too. I hope you are able to get the maillist to work. Please share if you do. :-)
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Well, I can get it to work on my ISP's POP3 account, but not on the POP3 accounts on my server. I'm still trying to find out how to fix this.
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I installed this hack and I love it but quoting a message is not done right at all.

Can this be fixed because quiting is very important using usenet ?
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Quote:
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?
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