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NNTP Gateway for Usenet ( Newsgroups ), Mailing Lists
Developer Last Online: Nov 2023
The latest version: V3.5.0Alpha 1 (21 Jul 2005)
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 was originally coded by Gilby for vB2. I modified the hack to work with vB3 and have been maintaining and improving the hack. I have now done the modification for this to work with vB3.5. The very original hack by Gilby can be found here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...7&page=1&pp=15 The vB3 version can be found here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=65152 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. No need to manually 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. It is not a must to click "INSTALL" for this hack if you use it, I do try better answering the questions from people who do. Support Please post your support questions to this thread. Please check the FAQ in the second post within this thread first. It may be surprising, but it is possible your question is answered in the adminCP NNTP settings. Please always provide more details about your problem. Examples and debug messages will certainly help. Well, if you don't even try to have some effort to compose your question, the answer you get may also not include much effort. ================== UPDATES ====================== Jul 21 2005 (release version 3.5.0 Alpha 1) AdminCP xml file is written by Kadence.
Quick installation instruction: 1) Upload files to their correct directory 2) Enter AdminCP, click on NNTP Settings once to install/upgrade. Change settings to your like. 3) Click on NNTP Groups once to install/upgrade. 3a) For new install. Run once http://www.yourdomain.com/setlastmsg.php Delete this file afterwards. If you are upgrading from an older version. There is no need to upload this file. Actually this file should not be there except brand new install. 4) Manually run in debug mode: http://forums.yourdomain.com/gateway.php?debug=1 Show Your Support
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Hi,
I am pretty happy with the add-on. However some of the threads are duplicated since the usenet poster crossposts into multiple groups. Is there a way to prevent this duplication from happening? Since I compbine multiple usenet groups into one master group on my site, this is really annoying. Matthias |
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hi guys
I am still having the problem I posted on reply 499 the anoying thing is occasionally the odd post gets through (3 so far) this is wracking my head .. please help me someone |
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#505
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SET value = " . ((empty($get_max_postid))?(0): ($get_max_postid['postid'])) . " WHERE varname = 'last_postid' Code:
SET value = '" . ((empty($get_max_postid))?(0): ($get_max_postid['postid'])) . "' WHERE varname = 'last_postid' |
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Now I have this NTTP newsgroup hack working fine with VB 3.5.6 in my new forum http://forums.networkingland.com. But I am still facing posting problems, I am using www.teranews.com news server with posting allowed. Frankly speaking, I am very happy with this hack, it saved me months of work! many thanks to the coder who created this hack in the first place and to all of you fellows for the help. |
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Guys I have this installed but I cant get it working
Gateway debug says its fine but the cron fails every time vbulletin say its nothing to do with them and my web host says its nothing to do with them the script appears to be installed correctly and my head is in bits trying to sort it please help |
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when i start the gateway in debug mode 1, i become an erreo msg. can someone help me ?
Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.6.5: Invalid SQL: SELECT post.*, thread.*, post.dateline AS postdateline, post.msgid AS postmsgid, thread.title AS threadtitle, post.visible AS postvisible, thread.visible AS threadvisible FROM post as post LEFT JOIN thread as thread ON (thread.threadid = post.threadid AND post.userid = thread.postuserid AND post.postid = thread.firstpostid) WHERE post.isusenetpost = 0 AND post.postid > 0 AND thread.forumid = 40; MySQL-Fehler : Lost connection to MySQL server during query Fehler-Nr. : 2013 |
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You are right we are running the same VB version 3.6.5 and the same newsgroup server! It wasn't a staright forword job, actully it took me some time to fix it ( I am not a coder) Which satge you are stuck in ? Can you post the debug log if you reached that stage. More details will help both of us. |
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Hi Panda
as far as i know its set right if i use the debug it says its gateway'ed open but thats it the cron runs the gateway script every 15 minutes but in the last 10 days i have got 4messages through I know its a microsoft server but it should be a whole lot faster than that any help i get will save the samaratins a head ache |
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