Cyrus to USENET gateway

[Ken Murchison]

Nils Vogels wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently looking for some kind of solution, that will allow me to 
> gateway between Cyrus and USENET.
> 
> Right now I'm using an MLM solution, that fetches certain groups from a 
> server, drops and drops them in a Cyrus bb, but I'm trying to see if 
> threre is anything around that will allow me to integrate this further.
> 
> The things that currently trouble me are:
> 
> 1) I've found the feedcyrus shellscript, but this only seems to work for 
> an INN install. I do not have the resources to install INN as well on 
> the mailserver, and I do not want articles to be both in the INN system, 
> and in the Cyrus system. Would it be possible to use for instance an 
> slrn-pull setup for this as well ?

Cyrus 2.2 has a fully functional NNTP server so you can feed articles 
directly into Cyrus (or pull them from another server) and have them 
served via IMAP/POP3 and/or NNTP.

> 2) When people put new postings in the BB, I would like some way to gate 
> it out into the USENET world again. For this setup, I have no clues ... :/

As Rob said, lmtp2nntp is what you want:

http://www.ossp.org/pkg/tool/lmtp2nntp/

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