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From: brb@myrias.com (Brian Baird)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: How to send mail to C news
Message-ID: <625276901.17055@myrias.com>
Date: 25 Oct 89 01:01:26 GMT
References: <1989Oct20.145715.5182@sony.com>
	<1989Oct21.225543.22780@utzoo.uucp> <1989Oct23.063040.25063@rpi.edu>
Organization: Myrias Research, Edmonton
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The newsmail(8) man page deals with transmitting news over mail links,
not with gatewaying mailing lists into news groups.  It is not
entirely clear from David Elliott's original posting which he is
trying to do.

Here's how I gateway about half a dozen mailing lists here.  The stuff
in contrib seemed a bit overpowered for what I wanted.

#! /bin/sh
# mailtonews newsgroup [approved-by]
#
# Inject a mail-list message into the given newsgroup with no fuss.
# Typical use is to have a moderated group for the info-foo mail
# list called "mail.info-foo".  Add an appropriate line to the mailpaths
# file, then add the following alias to /usr/lib/aliases:
#
#	info-foolist:		"|/usr/lib/news/bin/mailtonews mail.info-foo"
#	owner-info-foolist:	news
#
# Brian Baird	brb@myrias.com

# =()<. ${NEWSCONFIG-@<NEWSCONFIG>@}>()=
. ${NEWSCONFIG-/usr/lib/news/bin/config}
PATH=$NEWSCTL/bin:$NEWSBIN/inject:$NEWSBIN/relay:$NEWSBIN:$NEWSPATH; export PATH

pref=/tmp/m2n$$
hdr=${pref}hdr
body=${pref}body

sed 1d | tear $pref
lines="`sed 1d $body | wc -l`"
{
	echo Newsgroups: $1
	echo Path: ${USER-news}
	egrep -v '^Newsgroups:' $hdr
	echo Approved: ${2-news@`cat $NEWSCTL/mailname`}
	echo Lines: $lines
	cat $body
} | relaynews

rm $hdr $body
exit
--
Brian Baird				brb@myrias.com
Myrias Research, Edmonton		{uunet,alberta}!myrias!brb