Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:2793 news.software.b:4210 Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!ziggy!usfvax2!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Summary: Integrating Internet mail with News Message-ID: <25E05144.3131@tct.uucp> Date: 19 Feb 90 20:04:20 GMT References: <1990Feb12.141913.2515@cs.hope.edu> <265@herron.uucp> <25DC072E.292@tct.uucp> <278@herron.uucp> Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 28 According to jbrown@jato.jpl.nasa.gov: >The "|inews -h -n mail.foo" scheme loses utterly, though, in that it >drops the second and later groups of a crosspost on the floor. >(I used it for a few hours, until I mailed a message to a half-dozen >groups noting that I'd changed the distribution scheme and to tell me >about problems... and noticed that my message only arrived in one group.) > >If somebody has a better idea I'd love to hear it... Well, with Smail 2.5 Deliver 2.0 (you knew it was coming) you can handle this situation. First, be sure that Smail is generating *one* Deliver invocation, no matter how many "local" addresses are included. Next, configure Deliver to collect names that look like newsgroups and generate a Newsgroups: header line appropriately. Third, feed this Newsgroups: header line to "inews -h", followed by other selected header lines and the message body. Result: one cross-posted article. Of course, none of this works if the mailing lists are on different machines. I've even done it, once. I don't have the code handy, and it needs some cleaning; but if more than two people ask, I'll post it. -- Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT , "The Usenet, in a very real sense, does not exist."