From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 23 10:48:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FCDF37B401 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 10:48:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF59943E3B for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 10:48:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: from blues.seekingfire.prv (blues.seekingfire.prv [192.168.23.211]) by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D05836F for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 12:48:16 -0600 (CST) Received: (from tillman@localhost) by blues.seekingfire.prv (8.11.6/8.11.6) id gANIkN424510 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 12:46:23 -0600 Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 12:46:23 -0600 From: Tillman To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail to News software suggestions? Message-ID: <20021123124623.B24445@seekingfire.com> References: <20021123184212.GI55241@kirk.dlee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021123184212.GI55241@kirk.dlee.org>; from dgl@dlee.org on Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 01:42:13PM -0500 X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 01:42:13PM -0500, Doug Lee wrote: > I want to read busy mailing lists with nn or trn. I have space to > store the messages as news articles locally. I'm looking for a > system that will take incoming list mail and deposit it in "newsgroups" > I create for them on this machine. I use procmail, so it would be > fine to pass off list mail messages to this system via procmail > recipes. I also hope to find an easy way to expire/delete articles > easily after I read them, individually or (more likely) in bulk > after each of my nn/trn sessions. Note that these pseudo-newsgroups > are for my use only and will not be seen outside of my system, so > a read article never need be kept at all, really, unless I decide > to keep an archive. Also, I do not handle "real" newsgroups here > at all (I don't have THAT much space); if I ever use nn/trn locally > to read real news, I'll find an NNTP server. > > Does anyone know a good way to do this? If the mailing list in question uses Mailman, I beleive it has a mail->news gateway built in. Pestering the list administrator to set it up might be useful in that case :-) I'd be interested in a news<->mail gateway for personal use as well. I suspect the complicated part will be in the replying mechanism - converting back to mail format is a bit more complicated in terms of needing user configuration information than simply calling a filter from procmail or maildrop. - Tillman -- "The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh {American Author} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message