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From: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Gatewaying between mailing list and usenet?
Message-ID: <2202@erix.ericsson.se>
Date: 17 Sep 89 08:38:52 GMT
References: <663@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> <671@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu>
Reply-To: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
Organization: Ellemtel Utvecklings AB, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <671@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> bernhold@orange19 (David E. Bernholdt)
writes:

>Recnews is part of the standard B-news release and there are
>both man page and helpful comments in the code.

We use recnews here too, but I think it has a couple of problems:
- it throws away the original Message-ID, causing inews to generate a local
  one - not very nice if you want to reply to an "article"
- it sometimes gets confused about the sender address, which ends up like
  From: \@local.host.address. I haven't had opportunity to identify the exact
  circumstances under which that happens. It may be fixed by patch #17, though
  - we're currently at #14...

Improvements to recnews or alternative suggestions are welcome...

>mail1:world,usa,na,fl,uf,news.group.name::/usr/ucb/mail mailing-list@address

>Some improvements could probably be made to the usenet->mail
>transformation:  Perhaps feeding it to sendmail with a -f flag to set
>the "From:" name.  It may also be necessary to move around or modify
>(?) the headers so that sendmail will pick up on them.  (I tried
>simply feeding the article to sendmail unmodified and still treated
>the whole thing as text -- I haven't done anything fancy yet).

I've had zero problems with using 

/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -oeq mailing-list@address

- headers are in the right place, the From: is untouched, but normally the
  Sender: and From_/Return-Path: will be set to news or somesuch, as expected.

--Per Hedeland
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