Xref: utzoo news.software.b:1156 comp.unix.questions:5938 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!triceratops!karl From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: recnews Message-ID: <7694@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 3 Mar 88 21:47:06 GMT References: <261@grian.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Lines: 32 In-reply-to: liz@grian.UUCP's message of 3 Mar 88 19:55:49 GMT liz@grian.UUCP writes: I have a local mailing list set up to feed mail to a local newsgroup using recnews as: [...a piped alias...] which is posting the mail to cps.common pretty much as I wanted, but the articles are posted in a strange order -- nowhere near the original order in which the mail was written. I know enough not to expect the articles to be in the exact order they were written, but they have always arrived on grian in a pretty reasonable order This may be caused by your sendmail configuration being set up for the "prog" mailer to have the `e' "expensive" flag, and hence it doesn't even attempt delivery. It just waits for a queue run, by which time the order of things found in /usr/spool/mqueue is bound to be mighty random. Take out the `e' in the F= field of the "prog" mailer definition and see what happens. As a countersuggestion, we do a mail-into-news conversion this way in sendmail.cf: CNcomp misc news rec sci soc talk unix-pc ddn alt S0 R$=N.$*<@$=W.$D> $#news$:$1.$2 Posting to news And then the "news" mailer is defined as Mnews, P=/usr/lib/news/recnews, F=DFMls, M=65535, A=recnews $u Essentially, it detects a newsgroup-destined piece of mail via a `.' in the name with a first word being one of the standard newsgroup classes. It works very well, and in fact our CN includes a few other words for local newsgroup classes. And you don't have to maintain aliases in /usr/lib/aliases as separate entities.