[Asterisk-Users] Re: Are there online forums instead of this email forum??

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <m3sm2akqep.fsf at caruso.quasi.local>,
Bruno Hertz <brrhtz at yahoo.de> wrote:
> tony at softins.clara.co.uk (Tony Mountifield) writes:
> 
> > Yes, based on a standard install of the INN rpm in Red Hat or Fedora.
> >
> > I've just put together a page with a description and links to the two
> > perl scripts used. See http://www.softins.co.uk/mail2news
> 
> Geez, right on time :) I just installed inn and was thinking about how
> to glue it to mail. From what I learned through google, the whole matter
> is not entirely trivial, so your effort is most welcome and highly
> appreciated.

No problem! I've been running that setup for years, and should have got
around to writing it up a long time ago.

> My mail setup differs slightly (postfix/cyrus, no procmail), so I'm not
> entirely sure yet were to plug the mail->news feed, especially since I
> don't want to do user specific filtering on the postfix side. Maybe via
> cyrus/sieve ... 

Can't help you there. One thing that did occur to me just now is that now
I use procmail I could probably dispense with the entries in /etc/aliases
and pipe directly to mail2news from .procmailrc. The reason it's like it
is is because using procmail is only fairly recent. I used instead to have
an additional subscription to the list under an address such as
asterisk-users at mydomain.com. But in order to post so some lists, I then
also needed my own subscription set to nomail.

> Those are minor issues though, apparently you got the ground pretty much
> covered, so many thanks for that!
> 
> Incidentally, did you also already think about what it would need to make
> such a server public, including posting? As I'm writing I'm beginning to
> think this might even be not possible for various reasons, e.g. even if
> one got news auth and list subscription synced, users would still get the
> mail, too ... seems to need a pretty tight coupling between maling list and
> news server. Hmmm ... anyway, we'll see, one step after the other :)

I think to do it properly for public access the news server and gateway may
need to be integrated on the same server as the list handler. And it's not
really something I have the resources or interest in doing myself.

MfG,
Tony
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