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NNTP Gateway for Usenet ( Newsgroups ), Mailing Lists · **Released**: 05-14-2004

The latest version: V2.3.2 (31 Oct 2004)

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 is basically a hacked vB2 NNTP gateway written by Gilby to work with vB3. The original hack can be found here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...7&page=1&pp=15

Features

Some of the features and improvement include:

Handles both newsgroup posts and mailing lists.
Handles MIME encoded messages and attachment.
Handles UUEncoded messages.
Two Admin Control Panels for all settings.
Automated installation.
Correct thread implementation. All imported messages and posts sent to newsgroups will be threaded correctly according to References and Message-ID headers.
Optional setting to thread by subject for mailing lists that strip references header.
Supports TABLE_PREFIX.
Imported messages will be searchable just like normal forum posts.
Similar threads are built when the messages are imported if the system setting is on.
Multiple attachments importing.
Save attachment to database or file according to vB setting.
Thumbnail created while importing image files.
Multiple attachment post to newsgroup is also supported.
Selectable X-No-Archive header honouring system.
Light on system resources.
Global Killfile to filter out unwanted messages. Killfiles can have OR and AND effectiveness.
Strip footer by setting for incoming messages. Strips out repeated message footers.
Built options to disable signatures and footers for out going messages.

Future development

AdminCP interfaces. (completed)
Installation/upgrade script. (completed, coded into AdminCP)
Traditional "> " lead posting interface.

What do you need and do not need?

You do not need to edit vB php files if you use two bookmarks
You need to edit one vB php file to insert two lines of code if you want direct click links within AdminCP.
No need to 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.

Support

Please post your support questions to this thread. Please check the FAQ in the third post within this thread first.

================== UPDATES ======================
Jul 31 2004 (release version 2.2.0)

Provided option of not importing attachments
Provided option of pause between messages
Provided option of not sending messages to USENET
Provided mechanism to skip importing a message if it was crashed on it
Provided "Default Footer" option
Provided strip_footer function for mailing lists
(written originally by KevinM)
Provided Killfile functions with Header/Body/AND/OR settings
Provided ability to thread messages by subject for mailing lists
Provided ability to use a single POP3 account for different mailing lists
(use prefix)
Merged KevinM's attachment routine, save thumbnail to hard drive
as vB3.0.3
Official support to have the script run by Scheduled Tasks
Many bug fixes

Please note, when you manually run the script, you must turn on the debug mode. Otherwise nothing will be displayed on the screen.

To run as debug mode: http://forums.yourdomain.com/gateway.php?debug=1

25 Oct 2004

Provided the option of sending posts using the real email address
Provided the option of sending posts using a fixed email address for
each group.
Posts are now held back if they are in the moderating queue
Scheduled task log is now working
Provided the option of sending the debug messages to the vB3 cron log
Bug fixes

31 Oct 2004

Fixed bugs running the gateway by the vB3 Scheduled Tasks

1 March 2004

Uploaded the new zip file. It contains one or two bug fixes.

lierduh · #**642** 10-30-2004, 02:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marv

You?re funny, lierduh - don?t you think I?ve already tried this before

Since my first installation of your hack the param `gateway.php` isn?t working for me. With this I only receive a blank page in admincp and gateway.php is doing nothing. Wether importing nor exporting.

I used gateway.php in my limited test. It does not give errors. It is possible the error you received was caused by the php running as cgi. 'gateway.php?debug=1' will definitely fail by the way.

Using "http://www.myforums.com/forum/gateway.php" as the file name in the cronCP will fail on most servers unless 'allow_url_fopen' is turned on in php.ini. Even that, different versions of php will behave differently.

Since the lastest version sends the debug message through email (set $do_cron_log = 1). I would like to see someone with this problem post some debug messages.

If possible, the Unix cronjob is the preferred way to run the script. I think some ISP provides cron job through the ISP's control panel if you can not access to the shell. Because I do not use the vB3 cron, the test done on them is very limited. Also the vB3 cron has been designed to run some simple scheduled tasks. It was never designed to run complicated tasks as gateway.php.

SaN-DeeP · #**643** 11-06-2004, 09:40 AM

HI lierduh,
so far i appreciate the time and work you have devoted for this hack

and it works perfectly fine now.
i need to ignore posts from this newgroups forums to get added to the global (total no. of threads and posts on my forums home - whats going on box

how can i acheive this ?

Regards,

AWS · #**644** 11-06-2004, 01:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SaN-DeeP

HI lierduh,
so far i appreciate the time and work you have devoted for this hack

and it works perfectly fine now.
i need to ignore posts from this newgroups forums to get added to the global (total no. of threads and posts on my forums home - whats going on box

how can i acheive this ?

Regards,

<off-topic>
San Deep,
Sorry I missed you when you tried to IM me. You messaged me whenever I was idle and when I was going to reply you were offline.
</off-topic>

lierduh · #**645** 11-07-2004, 01:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SaN-DeeP

HI lierduh,
so far i appreciate the time and work you have devoted for this hack

and it works perfectly fine now.
i need to ignore posts from this newgroups forums to get added to the global (total no. of threads and posts on my forums home - whats going on box

how can i acheive this ?

Regards,

I have not looked into this. I believe someone has mentioned about a hack to do this, most likely in this thread.

esfron · #**646** 11-07-2004, 03:12 PM

I tryied to get running cronjob from Cpanel but I can't get it working.

Crontab with GET /home3/blalbla/public_html/forum/gateway.php

Any idea ?

-
edit: fixed

we_are_borg · #**647** 11-07-2004, 10:27 PM

I run this script for some time now but i have one aquestion to the programmer. Is it posible with the passwords not to show the real one but as it should ***** as replacements. This is far beter then others can also use that section to add there newsserver.

lierduh · #**648** 11-08-2004, 12:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by we_are_borg

I run this script for some time now but i have one aquestion to the programmer. Is it posible with the passwords not to show the real one but as it should ***** as replacements. This is far beter then others can also use that section to add there newsserver.

Use the attached file.

Torqued · #**649** 11-08-2004, 01:15 AM

awesome! I'm not using it for newsgroups, but have it working just fine w/ mailing lists.

*clicks install*

SaN-DeeP · #**650** 11-08-2004, 09:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Qwest

Everyone I found out how to make the posts not count towards your total board post counts.

Note: this hack is totally the work of Wayne Luke. I'm just copy/pasting

Quote:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Wayne Luke
Should be easy...

Add a smallint field on the database record such as "is_usenet" and set it to '1' for the forums that are.

Then in index.php find the following code (it is near the bottom):
PHP Code:
if (is_array($forumcache))
{
foreach ($forumcache AS $forum)
{
$totalthreads += $forum['threadcount'];
$totalposts += $forum['replycount'];
}
}

And change it to:
PHP Code:
if (is_array($forumcache))
{
foreach ($forumcache AS $forum)
{
if (!$forum['is_usenet']) {
$totalthreads += $forum['threadcount'];
$totalposts += $forum['replycount'];
}
}
}

My only addition is that you have to go into your AdminCP and update post counts for the changes to take affect. Try running gateway.php as well.

i found the solution in this HUGE thread finally

But now, need to know a little more details on implemeting the same ?

How do i proceed, what field needs to be added into db which table ? how to add forums id there etc. etc

Looking for help

Regards,

esfron · #**651** 11-09-2004, 07:34 AM

Default Footer set to: default_footer
organization_check 0
nofooter 1
nosignature 0

All is working fine except signature and moderating queue.

1) Signature
Thread and profile links are working fine in outgoing posts. Signatures are showing in http forum but they aren't exported in outgoing messages. Signatures are showing usenames instead the real signature i.e. if username is esfron. signature display is:
-------
esfron

2) Moderation
I have both threads and posts moderation enabled in a usenet forum but usenet posts are going directly to the forum instead of the moderatong queue. They aren't held back.

Any idea ?

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