Perl News/Mail Gateways

If you make modifications that make these scripts smarter, more robust, or more powerful, please let me know and/or send me a copy of your modified script with a short description of what you did. Please send them to newsmgr@cornell.edu. Thanks!

The scripts are: news2mail.pl and mail2news.pl

For news2mail.pl, you'll want an entry in your newsfeeds file that looks something like this:

Gcornell-admin-web\
  :!*,your.news.group.name\
  :Tp:/inn/bin/news2mail.pl destination.address@foo.bar.baz.org %s

Don't forget to check the path to news2mail.pl.

For mail2news.pl, a sendmail alias like this should work:

misc-test: "|/inn/bin/mail2news.pl misc.test"

Please note that your mileage may vary. These scripts are small hacks, not production code.

Creation Date: May 1, 1996