Mail2News Mini-Howto

Rick Dean <howto@fdd.com>

1. Copyright, Distribution, etc.

• 1.1 What is this?
• 1.2 Copyright and such
• 1.3 Where can I get this HOW-TO?
• 1.4 Document history

2. Overview

• 2.1 What? Why? and some definitions
• 2.2 Assumed environment
• 2.3 Methodology
• 2.4 Not covered

3. The news reader

• 3.1 Netscape
• 3.2 Free Agent
• 3.3 trn and friends

4. The news server

• 4.1 Installing the news server
• 4.2 Running the newsserver
• 4.3 Creating the newsgroup
• 4.4 Unrestricting access
• 4.5 Changing permissions of /usr/bin/rnews
• 4.6 Testing article posting
• 4.7 Did it work?
• 4.8 Increasing expiration times

5. The posting script & perl

• 5.1 What is Perl?
• 5.2 Location of perl
• 5.3 The mail2news.pl script
• 5.4 How do I know if the script is running?
• 5.5 What is with the Aussie?
• 5.6 What do you mean $PATH?

6. The local mailer daemon

• 6.1 Overview
• 6.2 Creating a mail alias
• 6.3 Did it work?
• 6.4 Enabling "pipe to program"
• 6.5 Documentation
• 6.6 Unprivledged

7. The mailing list remailer

• 7.1 Subscribing
• 7.2 Forging mail
• 7.3 Be patient