Linux-Hams archive - November 1997: Re: fbb mail > nntp, how?
Re: fbb mail > nntp, how?
David J Brown (aof@niks.by)
Mon, 3 Nov 1997 09:45:09 +0000
On Oct 31, 8:03pm, Simon J Mudd wrote:
> Subject: Re: fbb mail > nntp, how?
> kylvj@nixtra.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_M=F8rch?=) writes:
>
> > I'm planing on changing our local hamclub bbs to linux/fbb (that's no
> > problem i asume)
> > But then i'm thinking about making a local news server (inn) for the LAN in
> > the club, where there are a couple of winslow machines. This newsserver
> > should then carry all the buletins from fbb, so that people could use a
> > newsreader on the windows machines.
> > But how do i get the mail's from fbb to inn? And (if possible) sort them
> > out in to diferent newsgroups according to the 'TO' or 'BBS' fields.
>
> if you can configure fbb to forward mail to the INN box (as mail) then
> you can setup an account there, use procmail to process it, and
> mail2news and news2mail to inject mail into the news server.
If you can run the news server on the same box as the XFBB then the best plan
is to use the fine mailgateway software by Heikki. This is found at the
following location:
http://ftp.pspt.fi/ftp/pub/linux/ham/utils/mailgw-0.3.0.tar.gz . This works in
a most splendid manner and transfers bulletins to and from INN, and mails to
and from SMTP.
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