4. Setting up mail2news

Put the mail2news.pl script in a suitable location. I favour /usr/local/scripts, but the location is up to you.

You will need to edit script as follows:-

• At the top of the script, make sure you are pointing at the local Perl binary

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  #!/usr/bin/perl
  # point at the correct location of perl
  

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• I had problems with the three following lines. Commenting them out does not cause a problem.

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  ( $version  ) = $] =~ /(\d+\.\d+).*\nPatch level/;
  die "$program: requires at least version 3 of perl\n"
          if $version < 3;
  

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• Edit the following lines to point at the posting program (I use rnews) and you news host:-

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  # $inews = "/usr/bin/inews";
  # $iopts = "-h -o \"mail2news gateway\"";
  $inews = "/usr/bin/rnews";
  $iopts = "";
  $postinghost = "your.news.server";   # points at your news server
  

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• Make sure that the script is exectuable (mode 755).