News Account:

PURPOSE:

This account is used as a mail gateway to the news system.
It is also intended to be used as a place for all news messages
to be viewed and acted on (not implemented yet).

MAIL-2-NEWS GATEWAYS:

This procedure presupposes that the newsgroup already exists.

    # Mail-to-News gateway mail aliases
    some-newsgroup-name:usenet

Add the newsgroup name, as shown, then edit /home/usenet/.elm/filter-rules.

    if (to == "some-newsgroup-name") then
        executec '/home/usenet/bin/postit some.newsgroup.name'

Add another "to" line with the re-written newsgroup name as shown.

RECOVERY:

In the case of a ~/dead.article, run the perl script, ~/bin/deadfeed,
it will try to feed these articles into news again. Any failures will
show up again in the ~/dead.article file. This really should run in cron.

In the case of failed articles, you will need to run

    ckpost news.group.name < mail_article

to determine why the mail message could not be processed.
Failed articles are kept in ~/spool/group_name$PID. To avoid confusion,
the procedure is to move the failed articles elsewhere and then execute
ckpost. If the process fails again, the article will be placed back
into the spool directory, ~/spool/usenet$PID. After a ckpost run, you may
remove the articles in the temporary directory.

CANCELS

News Message Cancelations

Just feed this message with the appropriate modifications to inews.
The message will then be cancelled.

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echo "Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.oldies,rec.games.trivia
Control: cancel <4auuk0$jpi@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
Subject: cmsg cancel <4auuk0$jpi@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
Approved: usenet@somewhere.com

cmsg cancel 
" | inews -h