Re: News -> list gateway?

Patrik Rådman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.sn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Given <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip praise :)]
> (Note: I did have to do one slightly dodgy thing. snstore explicitly checks
> the uid/gid to ensure that it's news.news, which is unhelpful since
> minimalist invokes it with list.list. Normally I'd just add list to the
> news group, but the explicit check stops this from working. Eventually I
> gritted my teeth and made snstore setuid --- I need to write a proper
> wrapper for it.)

Why do it that way? I'd subscribe the news user to the list, and then run
snmail from news's .procmailrc.

> Now, the next thing I want is to set things up to mirror stuff in the other
> direction, so that my users can post to the newsgroup and it goes out on
> the mailing list. Are there any useful tips for how to do this?

Read INSTALL.notes, especially the section "To turn a mailing list into a
site-wide newsgroup:".

> How does snntpd post stuff, anyway? 

man snntpd

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