Cyrus to USENET gateway

[Ken Murchison]

Nils Vogels wrote:
> Ken Murchison wrote:
> 
>> Florian Hars wrote:
>>
>>> Ken Murchison wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why not just have the newsserver feed directly to Cyrus?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Things aren't what they used to be. Typical providers will offer 
>>> their clients NNRP access with NEWNEWS disabled (if they offer news 
>>> at all), there is no talk of "feeding".
>>>
>>> Trying to get suck <url:ttp://home.comcast.net/~bobyetman/index.html> 
>>> to cooperate with cyrus would probably be easier that reimplementing 
>>> suck within cyrus.
>>
>>
>>
>> At first glance, I think suck will work just fine.  You'll have to 
>> create the sucknewsrc file manually, since Cyrus doesn't use the 
>> typical files used by news servers (active, etc).
> 
> 
> 
> I've got suck working. I'm currently filling my news partition using:
> 
> suck news.provider.goes.here -a -A -bp -c -hl localhost -dd . -dm . -dt 
> . -p .provider -i 0, which will probably end up as a Cyrus event.
> 
> However, lmtp2nntp is now giving me authentication quirks, when trying 
> to email-reply on a message sent to the box.
> 
> Postfix is taking the message just find, and handing it over to 
> lmtp2nntp, which errors out on the authentication prompt, coming from 
> the Cyrus nntpd.
> 
>  <usenet+nl.test at my.host.com>. 554-5.4.2 destination#0 localhost
>    returned NNTP: cannot deliver message 554 5.4.2 destination#0 localhost
>    lastresp "480 Authentication required" (in reply to end of DATA command
> 
> Now, I see two possible solutions:
> 
> 1) Tell Cyrus NNTPD not to force authentication for localhost

allowanonymouslogin: yes

Not recommended unless you already have a need/use for anonymous.

> 2) Tell lmtp2nntp to authenticate to Cyrus.

Not an option AFAIK.

2a) Tell lmtp2nntp to use its "feed" mode, per the note in 
doc/install-netnews.html in the Cyrus docs.

This is what I recommend and what I use myself.  Since I don't use 
Postfix, I can't tell you exactly how to confifure it, but for Sendmail, 
its as simple as setting a mailer option.

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