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).

[lierduh]

Could you post the entire headers of the post he replied and one of his other posts.

Also for debugging purpose, add this line after that getHeader line

print_r($thisheader);

[allan grossman]

Okay -

this one showed up in the forum

Path: internal1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!border2.nntp.sjc.g iganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!216.218.192.242!news.he.net!newsfeed1.e asynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!bigfeed2.bellsou th.net!bigfeed.bellsouth.net!bignumb.bellsouth.net !news.bellsouth.net!bignews3.bellsouth.net.POSTED! 50720933!not-for-mail
From: Lynrd <iamnot@this.com>
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
Subject: Re: The final solution - or, 'Hey, Lynrd!'
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Message-ID: <402b4ddd.213014098@server1.loosenet4free.com>
References: <allan.11bapm@ebassist.nospam.com>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American)
X-No-Archive: yes
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 37
X-Trace: bhmkggakljkaanefdbdpiflmbcekedmfhojhikkbagflhcbojj cppjnbmkeghkjnaebckapdlcgdmfgdjabdbdkfgappaidgiloo kconkabkfbidlnmbhlcnknekmbegpccnnhdpgmpjjbpkekfngo dfappodfma
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 09:52:40 EST
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 08:57:33 -0600
Xref: intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com alt.guitar.bass:354721

but this one did not:

Path: internal1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!border2.nntp.sjc.g iganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!216.218.192.242!news.he.net!newsfeed1.e asynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!bigfeed2.bellsou th.net!bigfeed.bellsouth.net!bignumb.bellsouth.net !news.bellsouth.net!bignews6.bellsouth.net.POSTED! not-for-mail
From: Lynrd <iamnot@this.com>
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.bass
Subject: Re: You?
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Message-ID: <40243584.75709184@server1.loosenet4free.com>
References: <imf720dok6ldvtjphvhli0u7sfoqjcvhi2@4ax.com>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American)
X-No-Archive: yes
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 38
X-Trace: ofjmidbaofeaohdodbdpiflmbcekedmfhojhikkbagflhcboea gmlgmoifpnnejlkaikhjbiabbhpmpljabdbdkfgappaidgokda icblneaplmodlnmbhlcnknekmbegfnkjinielkkcgcglnjgdkc epeeifcdbb
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 19:49:04 EST
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 18:52:20 -0600
Xref: intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com alt.guitar.bass:354456

The first of the two new lines didn't work i I'm gong back to the one that did in post #727

Also, I found the "get headers" line was missing from the script (one too many cut-and-pastes, I'm afraid) - so let's not do anything different until I've got solid information on what works now that I've got the script back where it needs to be.

Sorry to have wasted a little of your time on this, lierduh - I didn't see the line was missing. I'll let you know what happens after I run this for a couple days.

[lierduh]

You need to use the third option in this case (pun intended).

So insert these:

PHP Code:

if (isset($thisheader['X-No-Archive'])) { 
     if ( stristr($thisheader['X-No-Archive'], 'yes') ) {
          continue; 
     } 
} 


[allan grossman]

Originally Posted by lierduh

You need to use the third option in this case (pun intended).

So insert these:

PHP Code:

if (isset($thisheader['X-No-Archive'])) { 
     if ( stristr($thisheader['X-No-Archive'], 'yes') ) {
          continue; 
     } 
} 


I think we're almost there.

Thanks, lierduh.

[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; 
     } 
} 


[lierduh]

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]

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]

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

[allan grossman]

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]

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?