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).

[SRozhon]

Gilby, this is so great! Thank you so much for this #1 Hack!!!

[SRozhon]

When I do Manual Sync all goes fine but if put address in browser I get a promt box to save or open gateway.php??? When I say open I get an error and it opens notepad. Why would this be happening?

[peterjun]

So how do you setup the email features? There doesn't appear to be instructions! Thanks!

04-04-02 at 11:50 PM Gilby said this in Post #320
That's exactly what it means. It can also send posts to an email address too.

[peterjun]

Now I am getting this issue as well... any help?

03-24-02 at 04:29 PM renaud_ said this in Post #282
Hi,

thanks for all,

i can't gateway an POP3 account ...

I can't understand what's the mistake ...

Any idea ?

[peterjun]

Nevermind... I searched in the class.POP3.php3 file for the noop line. There's a sequence that says: Changes are where there are ***.

}
$this->FP = $fp;
$this->BANNER = $this->parse_banner($reply);
$this->RFC1939 = $this->noop();
if($this->RFC1939)
{
$this->ERROR = "POP3: premature NOOP OK, NOT an RFC 19$
*** //$this->quit();
*** return true; }
return true;

[MaXxed]

I have my usenet forums moderated on all posts, yet the script is posting messages to usenet anyway. How can I avoid spamming usenet? I've asked this question before but am now stumped, any help anyone?

[peterjun]

Is there a way to show the poster's email address in the forum post? Perhaps at the start of the message?

"From <email here>"

Thanks!

Also, how do I disable sends from the forum to the newsgroups?

[Gardener]

MaXxed and peterjun,

You might want to look at the usenet hack located at:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=22599

It allows you to do what both of you are asking for. It works better for me than this hack does.

[mood]

VB 2.3
When I run gateway.php I'm getting
"Invalid SQL: UPDATE forum SET replycount=replycount+1,threadcount=threadcount+1, lastpost='1046023251',lastpost er='Peter' WHERE forumid IN ()
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ')' at line 1
"
heeeeeeeeeeelp
Thanks

Mood

[willms_jay]

does this hack work with

version: 2.3.0

or

version : 2.2.9?

..thanx

jordan willms