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MAILPOST(1)					      MAILPOST(1)

NAME
       mailpost - feed an email message into a news group

SYNOPSIS
       mailpost	 [ -r addr ] [ -f addr ] [ -a addr ] [ -d distri-
       bution ] [ -m mailing-list ] [ -b database ] newsgroups

DESCRIPTION
       The mailpost program reads a properly formatted email mes-
       sage  from  stdin  and  feeds it to inews for posting to a
       news server. Before feeding the article to inews it checks
       that  the article has not been seen before, and it changes
       some headers (cleans some  address  headers  up	and  puts
       ``X-'' in front of unknown headers).

       If  the article has been seen before (mailpost records the
       message-id of all articles is handles),	the  the  article
       will  be	 silently  dropped.  Other  errors will cause the
       article to be mailed to the newsmaster.

       Normally mailpost is run by sendmail via an alias entry:

	      local-mail-wreck-bikes: "|<PREFIX specified with --prefix at configure>/bin/mailpost
		       -d local local.mail.rec.bicycles.racing"

OPTIONS
       -r     If the ``-r'' flag is used the program will use the
	      given address as the Path header, if no other value
	      can be determined.

       -f     The ``-f'' flag is a synonym for the ``-r'' flag.

       -a     If the ``-a'' flag is used the value given is added
	      to the article as an Approved header.

       -d     If the ``-d'' flag is used the value given is added
	      to the article as a Distribution header.

       m      If the ``-m'' flag is used the value given is added
	      to  the  articles	 in  a	Mailing-List header, if a
	      Mailing-List header doesn't already exist.

       -b     IF the ``-b'' flag is used,  then	 it  defines  the
	      location	of the database used to store the message
	      ids of articles sent on. This is to  prevent  arti-
	      cles looping around if a news to mail gateway sends
	      them back here. This option may be required if  the
	      mailpost	process	 doesn't have write access to the
	      news  tmp	 directory  (the  value	 of  pathtmp   in
	      inn.conf(5).

HISTORY
       Written by Paul Vixie long ago and then hacked up by James
       Brister for INN integration.  This  is  revision	 1.1.2.2,

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MAILPOST(1)					      MAILPOST(1)

       dated 2000/05/13.

FILES
       <pathdb in inn.conf>/mailpost-msgid.db  database file

BUGS
       Is lacking in configurability.

SEE ALSO
       active(5), inn.conf(5), nnrpd(8), wildmat(3).

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