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NEWS2MAIL(8)					     NEWS2MAIL(8)

NAME
       news2mail - a channel script to gateway news into email.

SYNOPSIS
       news2mail

DESCRIPTION
       news2mail runs as a channel process underneath innd. It is
       set up as channel feed in newsfeeds, with different  mail-
       ing lists as funnel entries pointing to it (see below).

       news2mail uses a config file

	      <pathetc in inn.conf>/news2mail.cf

       to map mailing list names to email addresses.

       news2mail  causes sendmail to queue the messages for later
       delivery (to avoid DOS attacks by mass postings). You must
       run 'sendmail -q' periodically to get the queue processed.

CONFIG FILE
       The config file format is  simple:  comments  (start  with
       ``#'')  and  blank lines are ignored. All other lines have
       two fields on them. The first is the list name and is what
       innd  uses  (i.e. the site field of the entry in the news-
       feeds file). The second field is the actual email  address
       to  send	 the article to. In the email message, the ``To''
       header will have the mailing list  name	(i.e.  the  first
       field)

	      # list-name    address
	      big-red-ants@ucsd.edu    big-red-ants-digest@ucsd.edu
	      news-software@ucsd.edu   news-software-digest@ucsd.edu

       a set of newsfeeds entries for these lists would be:

	      n2m!:!*:Tc,Ac,Wn*:<PREFIX specified with --prefix at configure>/bin/news2mail

	      big-red-ants@ucsd.edu:rec.pets.redants.*:Tm:n2m!

	      news-software@ucsd.edu:news.software.nntp:Tm:n2m!

       news2mail  strips  most	article	 headers from the article
       before mailing. It leaves: From, Subject	 Date,	Organiza-
       tion  and Message-ID in there. It add a To header with the
       mailing list name in it.

HISTORY
       news2mail was written by Brian Kantor.  This  man  pagewas
       written	by  James Brister This is revision 1.1.2.1, dated
       1999/06/12.

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NEWS2MAIL(8)					     NEWS2MAIL(8)

SEE ALSO
       ctlinnd(8), inn.conf(5), innd(8), newsfeeds(5), shlock(1).

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