From ANU-NEWS@VM1.NoDak.EDU Wed Jan 15 09:42:43 1992 Message-Id: <9201142242.AA02129@jatz.aarnet.edu.au> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 14:03:54 CST Reply-To: Bob Sloane Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion From: Bob Sloane Subject: Re: How to create listserv/news gateway To: Multiple recipients of list ANU-NEWS Status: RO In article <1992Jan14.082614.770@beckman.com>, dsroberts@beckman.com writes: > We have some users that would like to recieve some listserv mail, and they > would prefer that we gateway it into a newsgroup so they don't all have to > subscribe. Could someone direct me to instructions on how to set up such a > gateway? Given VMS 5.4-3, MultiNet, PMDF and ANUnews 6.0-3, what do we do? Create an account (or use an existing account) that can write files to news_manager:, and subscribe that account to the mailing list. If you use an existing account, you will have to find some way distinguish the incoming list email from the rest of the email to that account. Then create the newsgroup using the /MAILLIST qualifier. This tells NEWS that when someone posts an article to the group it should be mailed to the mailing list. Then modify your periodic batch job to extract the mail from the list to a file, for example: $ MAIL SELECT/TO=mailing_list_name NEWMAIL EXTRACT/ALL/APPEND mailing_list.MAIL DELETE/ALL (note that this may have bad side effects if no new mail from the list exists, ie, it deletes the entire MAIL folder) and then in news do: NEWS> ADD FILE/NEWSGROUP=bit.listserv.whatever mailing_list.MAIL and then delete or rename the input file after it is processed. If the mailing list is a BITNET LISTSERV type list, I would recommend setting the subscription option FULLHDR so you get the full mail headers, including Message-ID: header. -- USmail: Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045 E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, sloane@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913)864-0444