Usenet

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mail2news

mail2news is a client-server based mail to news gateway based on perl. The daemon is written in Perl, the client is implemented in C. This prevents repeated starts of the perl interpreter and compilation of the perl script which would decrease performance.

The documentation of this package is implemented as man pages which are part of the package. Look at this README for first information how this package works.

Download the current version.

Changes since 1.3

added option -D to support debugging forking children

added support for invalid Message-IDs, new ones will be generated if necessary (old Message-ID is stored in X-Message-ID)

added support for NNTP posting (see $post_nntp, $nntp_host, and $nntp_port)

Changes since 1.2

fixed signal handling, the signal block mask was empty which could lead to a blocking daemon.
now STDIN and STDOUT are redirected from/to /dev/null to detach the daemon from the controlling tty
the mail2news-client now uses a timeout of 10 seconds for all operations on the local socket to the daemon. If the timeout is reached, an EX_TEMPFAIL is returned which should be interpreted as temporary delivery failure by the MTA.
The autoflush statement was working only by chance (depending on your version of News::Article. I replaced it with calls to select and using $| as suggest by Marcus Jodorf.

Changes since 1.1

fixed signal handling in mail2news-daemon once again

Changes since 1.0

fixed bug in mail2news-client regarding reading the server's result (error appeared with glibc 2.3.1)
fixed signal handling in mail2news-daemon (error appeared with glibc 2.3.1)
added -f option to mail2news-daemon to prevent daemonizing for debugging

Thanks

I want to thank Marcus Jodorf for pointing out problems in the daemon (autoflush) and sharing his experiences with postfix and procmail which lead to fixing the signal related bug in version 1.2.

E-Mail: web-200705@myrkr.in-berlin.de