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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 10:36:23 -0500 (CDT)
From: Don Read <dread@texas.net>
To: Terry Todd <tlt@badger.tltodd.com>
Subject: Re: news2mail programs
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On 20-Oct-99 Terry Todd wrote:
> Mathias,
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 08:53:48AM +0200, Matthias Teege wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 12:43:13PM -0500, Terry Todd wrote:
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Can anyone recommend a news2mail program?  I have tried Alex Schnitman's

<snipage>
 
>> checkout the cyrus mailserver in the ports.
>> Matthias
>> 
> I checked out cyrus.  I downloaded it and installed it and then
> looked at the cyrus doc pages on the web.
> 
> From: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/cyrus-overview.html#news
> "The IMAP server can export netnews newsgroups as IMAP mailboxes.
> This is done by creating a partition named news which points to
> the news spool directory and arranging for the IMAP server's
> auxiliary databases to be maintained. The server software includes
> programs for integrating with the INN netnews server. The following
> information assumes working knowledge of the INN netnews server."
> 
> Which is way way more complicated than what I am looking for.
> 
> Thanks anyway,
> Terry Todd

you might try using 'suck' to pull the articles to a tmp directory,
then cron a script to mail em (bogus shell psudeo-code follows):

cd /var/tmp/news
files=`ls -t | tail -50`
for art in $files
do
    sendmail myaddr@comain.com < $art
    rm $art
done

Regards,
---
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