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.IX Title "MAILPOST 8"
.TH MAILPOST 8 "2004-01-25" "INN 2.4.2" "InterNetNews Documentation"
.SH "NAME"
mailpost \- feed an email message into a news group
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
\&\fBmailpost\fR [\fB\-a\fR \fIaddr\fR] [\fB\-b\fR \fIdatabase\fR] [\fB\-c\fR \fIwait-time\fR]
[\fB\-d\fR \fIdistribution\fR] [\fB\-f\fR \fIaddr\fR] [\fB\-m\fR \fImailing-list\fR]
[\fB\-p\fR \fIport\fR] [\fB\-r\fR \fIaddr\fR] [\fB\-x\fR \fIheader\fR[\fB:\fR\fIheader\fR...]]
[\fInewsgroups\fR ...]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
The \fBmailpost\fR program reads a properly formatted email message from stdin
and feeds it to inews for posting to a news server. \fInewsgroups\fR is a
whitespace-separated list of group names to which to post the article.
.PP
Before feeding the article to inews, it checks that the article has not
been seen before, and it changes some headers (cleans up some address
headers and puts ``X\-'' in front of unknown headers).
.PP
If the article has been seen before (\fBmailpost\fR records the message-id of
each articles it handles), then the article will be silently dropped. Other
errors will cause the article to be mailed to the newsmaster.
.PP
Normally mailpost is run by \fIsendmail\fR\|(8) via an alias entry:
.PP
local\-mail\-wreck\-bikes: \*(L"|<pathbin in inn.conf>/mailpost
         \-d local local.mail.rec.bicycles.racing\*(R"
.SH "OPTIONS"
.IX Header "OPTIONS"
.IP "\fB\-a\fR \fIaddr\fR" 4
.IX Item "-a addr"
If the \fB\-a\fR flag is used the value given is added to the article 
as an Approved header.
.IP "\fB\-b\fR \fIdatabase\fR" 4
.IX Item "-b database"
If the \fB\-b\fR 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 articles
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 \fIpathtmp\fR in \fIinn.conf\fR\|(5)).
.IP "\fB\-c\fR \fIwait-time\fR" 4
.IX Item "-c wait-time"
The \fB\-c\fR flag indicates a length of time to sleep before posting.  If
duplicate messages are received in this interval (by any instance of
\&\fBmailpost\fR using the same database), the article is only posted once, but
with Newsgroups: header modified to crosspost the article to all indicated
groups.
.IP "\fB\-d\fR \fIdistribution\fR" 4
.IX Item "-d distribution"
If the \fB\-d\fR flag is used the value given is added to the article as a
Distribution: header.
.IP "\fB\-f\fR \fIaddr\fR" 4
.IX Item "-f addr"
The \fB\-f\fR flag is a synonym for the \fB\-r\fR flag.
.IP "\fB\-m\fR \fImailing-list\fR" 4
.IX Item "-m mailing-list"
If the \fB\-m\fR flag is used the value given is added to the articles in a 
Mailing\-List: header, if such a header doesn't already exist.
.IP "\fB\-p\fR \fIport\fR" 4
.IX Item "-p port"
Specifies the port on which \fBnnrpd\fR is listening, used for article posting.
If given, \fB\-p\fR is passed along to inews.
.IP "\fB\-r\fR \fIaddr\fR" 4
.IX Item "-r addr"
A heuristic is used to determine a reasonable value for the Path: header.
The \fB\-r\fR flag indicates what to use if no other value can be determined.
.IP "\fB\-x\fR \fIheader\fR[:\fIheader\fR...]" 4
.IX Item "-x header[:header...]"
A colon-separated list of additional headers which should be treated as
known headers; these headers will be passed through to \fIinews\fR\|(1) without
having \*(L"X\-\*(R" prepended.
.SH "HISTORY"
.IX Header "HISTORY"
Written by Paul Vixie long ago and then hacked up by James Brister for \s-1INN\s0 
integration.
.PP
$Id: mailpost.8 6658 2004-01-25 23:44:19Z rra $
.SH "FILES"
.IX Header "FILES"
<pathdb in inn.conf>/mailpost\-msgid.db	database file
.SH "BUGS"
.IX Header "BUGS"
Is lacking in configurability.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
\&\fIactive\fR\|(5), \fIinn.conf\fR\|(5), \fInnrpd\fR\|(8), \fIuwildmat\fR\|(3).