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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).

lierduh · #**737** 02-09-2004, 10:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by allan grossman

If I wanted to check for upper- and lowercase would I do it like this?

PHP Code:


			
if (isset($thisheader['X-No-Archive'])) { 

     if ( stristr($thisheader['X-No-Archive'], 'Yes' || 'yes') ) { 

          continue; 

     } 

}

stristr is case INsensitive.

allan grossman · #**738** 02-09-2004, 10:32 PM

Ah. Then I don't need to do anything.

Let me run it for a couple days and I'll let you know what happened.

Thanks a million, lierduh - I'm hoisting a glass in your direction right now

Bro_Joey_Gowdy · #**739** 02-12-2004, 03:25 PM

Im now getting another error in line 37 of gateway.php
http://www.joeygowdy.com/forum/gateway.php

allan grossman · #**740** 02-12-2004, 03:39 PM

Which version of the gateway - the vB2.x version on page 1 or the one lierduh modified for vB3 on page 44?

The reason I ask is that in lierduh's version line 37 is commented out. Can you paste line 37 into a message here for us?

thanks -

fluxforums · #**741** 02-20-2004, 01:03 AM

I have installed this hack along with the VB3 RC2 gateway upgrade along with ALTER TABLE post ADD ref TEXT NOT NULL;

My nntp_groups reflect....

biz.marketplace.web-design varchar(200) No
General Web Design varchar(32) No 0
prefix varchar(255) No
lastmsg int(11) No 0
news.comcast.giganews.com varchar(64) Yes NULL
xxxxxx varchar(32) Yes NULL
yyyyyy varchar(32) Yes NULL
enabled int(11) No 1

When running....
http://etcetc/gateway.php I receive...

0 group(s) gatewayed.

Am I missing something rudimentary here?

fluxforums · #**742** 02-22-2004, 05:14 AM

I have resolved that error by correcting the forum variable with an ID as read in the readme.

Now I am receiving...

1 group(s) gatewayed.
Logging in to news.comcast.giganews.com, group xxx.xxxx.xxx
Posting Message from FluxForums: 500 syntax error or unknown command
Posting Message from FluxForums: 480 authentication required
Posting Message from FluxForums: 500 syntax error or unknown command

And neither threads are exported (which I dont mind) to the newsgroup or threads imported (which of course I would like). This occurs in other newgroups within giganews.com server as well.

BTW: These are direct copy and paste names that I have verified to work in my Outlook Express so I am not sure why the authentication error is comming up.

I am running VB3 RC3

*NOTE: I believe I found the answer to this on Page 12 of this thread. It looks like giga does not allow access outside its networks. I will signup for another usenet provider and try it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by fluxforums

I have installed this hack along with the VB3 RC2 gateway upgrade along with ALTER TABLE post ADD ref TEXT NOT NULL;

My nntp_groups reflect....

biz.marketplace.web-design varchar(200) No
General Web Design varchar(32) No 0
prefix varchar(255) No
lastmsg int(11) No 0
news.comcast.giganews.com varchar(64) Yes NULL
xxxxxx varchar(32) Yes NULL
yyyyyy varchar(32) Yes NULL
enabled int(11) No 1

When running....
http://etcetc/gateway.php I receive...

0 group(s) gatewayed.

Am I missing something rudimentary here?

fluxforums · #**743** 02-22-2004, 06:49 AM

Bingo!

Now if only I can figure out why the thread and post count has updated but I do not see the actual threads in the forum.

Quote:

Originally Posted by fluxforums

I have resolved that error by correcting the forum variable with an ID as read in the readme.

Now I am receiving...

1 group(s) gatewayed.
Logging in to news.comcast.giganews.com, group xxx.xxxx.xxx
Posting Message from FluxForums: 500 syntax error or unknown command
Posting Message from FluxForums: 480 authentication required
Posting Message from FluxForums: 500 syntax error or unknown command

And neither threads are exported (which I dont mind) to the newsgroup or threads imported (which of course I would like). This occurs in other newgroups within giganews.com server as well.

BTW: These are direct copy and paste names that I have verified to work in my Outlook Express so I am not sure why the authentication error is comming up.

I am running VB3 RC3

*NOTE: I believe I found the answer to this on Page 12 of this thread. It looks like giga does not allow access outside its networks. I will signup for another usenet provider and try it.

fluxforums · #**744** 02-22-2004, 07:13 AM

Changed the forums viewing age. Good to go.

Is there a way to prevent threads from being exported into a newsgroup?

Quote:

Originally Posted by fluxforums

Bingo!

Now if only I can figure out why the thread and post count has updated but I do not see the actual threads in the forum.

Also, is there a way to prevent threads from being imported into a newsgroup?

Cluster One · #**745** 02-23-2004, 07:35 AM

Is there another way to run the gateway.php script? I've ran it on my webhost and it basically kills the server. Sucks up all the RAM and CPU usage.

allan grossman · #**746** 02-23-2004, 08:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fluxforums

Changed the forums viewing age. Good to go.

Is there a way to prevent threads from being exported into a newsgroup?

Nope. I'm afraid there isn't.

allan grossman · #**747** 02-23-2004, 08:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cluster One

Is there another way to run the gateway.php script? I've ran it on my webhost and it basically kills the server. Sucks up all the RAM and CPU usage.

It shouldn't be too bad once the newsgroups are synchronized. Have you got all the messages in the group or are you still trying to fill up the forum with older posts?

I run my gateway against one group that gets maybe 200 posts a day - my cron job runs every ten minutes. It doesn't work my server all that hard but of course, YMMV.

Cluster One · #**748** 02-23-2004, 06:54 PM

I set the last message to only get the last 30 days worth of posts from the groups, doubt anyone is going to read a message that was posted on 6/2/2003 anyways.

I installed the script, I run in it mozilla and all it says is this:

2 group(s) gatewayed.
Logging in to news.usenetserver.com, group alt.tv.angel
Logging in to news.usenetserver.com, group alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer

Nothing happens after that, it just sits there. I've even left it like that for over an hour.

allan grossman · #**749** 02-23-2004, 08:05 PM

Look on page 24, Cluster One - there's a version of nntp.php that does verbose output - maybe you can use that to determine where the problem is. It's in post #351.

Good luck!

Cluster One · #**750** 02-23-2004, 09:10 PM

group(s) gatewayed.
200 Powered by Usenet Server -- fe13 -- http://www.usenetserver.com/ (Tornado v1.0.5.353)
381 More Authentication Required
480 Authentication Required
Logging in to news.usenetserver.com, group alt.tv.angel
200 Powered by Usenet Server -- fe13 -- http://www.usenetserver.com/ (Tornado v1.0.5.353)
381 More Authentication Required
480 Authentication Required
Logging in to news.usenetserver.com, group alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer

Thanks for the help, but still it says 480 Authentication Required, but I have my login/pass setup correctly in the SQL database? Any other ideas?

I attached an image of my configuration.

allan grossman · #**751** 02-24-2004, 01:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cluster One

group(s) gatewayed.
200 Powered by Usenet Server -- fe13 -- http://www.usenetserver.com/ (Tornado v1.0.5.353)
381 More Authentication Required
480 Authentication Required
Logging in to news.usenetserver.com, group alt.tv.angel
200 Powered by Usenet Server -- fe13 -- http://www.usenetserver.com/ (Tornado v1.0.5.353)
381 More Authentication Required
480 Authentication Required
Logging in to news.usenetserver.com, group alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer

Thanks for the help, but still it says 480 Authentication Required, but I have my login/pass setup correctly in the SQL database? Any other ideas?

I attached an image of my configuration.

Maybe - it sounds to me like the news server isn't getting your password. Check this out -

http://www.mibsoftware.com/userkt/nntpext/0032.htm

Code:

    AUTHINFO USER username
    AUTHINFO PASS password

    The original AUTHINFO is used to identify a specific entity
    to the server using a simple username/password combination.
    It first appeared in the UNIX reference implementation.

    When authorization is required, the server will send a 480
    response requesting authorization from the client. The
    client must enter AUTHINFO USER followed by the username.
    Once sent, the server will cache the username and may send
    a 381 response requesting the password associated with that
    username. Should the server request a password using the 381
    respose, the client must enter AUTHINFO PASS followed by
    a password and the server will then check the authentication
    database to see if the username/password combination is valid.
    If the combination is valid or if no password is required,
    the server will return a 281 response. The client should then
    retry the original command to which the server responded with
    the 480 response. The command should then be processed by
    the server normally. If the combination is not valid, the server
    will return a 502 response.

    Clients must provide authentication when requested by the server.
    It is possible that some implementations will accept authentication
    information at the beginning of a session, but this was not the
    original intent of the specification. If a client attempts to
    reauthenticate, the server may return 482 response indicating
    that the new authentication data is rejected by the server.
    The 482 code will also be returned when the AUTHINFO commands
    are not entered in the correct sequence (like two AUTHINFO
    USERs in a row, or AUTHINFO PASS preceding AUTHINFO USER).

    All information is passed in cleartext.

    When authentication succeeds, the server will create an email
    address for the client from the user name supplied in the
    AUTHINFO USER command and the hostname generated by a reverse
    lookup on the IP address of the client. If the reverse lookup
    fails, the IP address, represented in dotted-quad format, will
    be used. Once authenticated, the server shall generate a Sender:
    line using the email address provided by authentication if it
    does not match the client-supplied From: line. Additionally,
    the server should log the  event, including the email address
    This will provide a means by which subsequent statistics generation
    can associate newsgroup references with unique entities - not
    necessarily by name.

3.1.1.1 Responses

        281 Authentication accepted
        381 More authentication information required
        480 Authentication required
        482 Authentication rejected
        502 No permission

Hope that helps a little -

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