Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!coherent!mrspoc!kayvan From: kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: How to send mail to C news Message-ID: Date: 21 Oct 89 06:52:47 GMT References: <1989Oct20.145715.5182@sony.com> Sender: kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) Organization: Transact Software, Inc. Lines: 29 In-reply-to: dce@sony.com's message of 20 Oct 89 14:57:15 GMT >>>>> "David" == David Elliott writes: David> In B news, it is fairly simple to set up an alias to send mail to David> newsgroups. You just pipe the mail through a sed script to change David> leading '>'s to ']' (or something - you have to get by the inews David> prevention scheme) and through uurec (or recnews, I forget which). David> How is this done in C news? I just went through this myself in order to set up bidirectionally gatewayed local newsgroup<->mailing lists. The contrib/nntpmail/mailing_lists directory contains some scripts that it was easy to tailor to my system. I ended up with a line in my sys file: local.accell:local.accell/all::/usr/local/lib/mail/mailgateway accell and a line in my (smail3.1 - sendmail compatible) aliases file: accell: "|/usr/local/lib/mail/distribute -n local.accell", accell-people If you can't get this to work, mail me and I'll send you more information. ---Kayvan -- Kayvan Sylvan @ Transact Software, Inc. -*- Los Altos, CA (415) 961-6112 Internet: kayvan@Transact.COM -*- UUCP: ...!{apple,pyramid,mips}!mrspoc!kayvan = Interested in story telling group? Mail yarn-spinners-request@transact.com =