[m-dev.] mail<->news gateway

[Tyson Richard DOWD]

> 
> Tyson Richard DOWD, you wrote:
> > 
> > Once the newsgroup becomes moderated, the setup should work.
> 
> Did you mean "work, except that those reading the newsgroup only will
> miss half of the messages", or did you find a solution to the news
> flakiness problem?

The former.

But, since news flakiness is generally caused by either:
	a) disk full on mulga
	b) mulga down

Nothing we can do about a) except repost those messages (it tends to
mail you about this). With b), I expect the mailing list will be down
too.

Do you expect news to be so flaky that half the messages will be lost?

> 
> Note that when inews fails, it prints an error message but still
> returns a successful exit status.  Since it is running under procmail,
> the error message will probably go to /dev/null, and so failures will
> be silently ignored.

The inews on the case machines is compiled from the source in 
/local/src/dept/news/nntp/inews/inews.c
which seems to exit(1) on most errors (except, of course, when the
server accepts the news article, but then barfs it back at you later).

I'm presently running this inews, since I run procmail on cat. May
eventually move this to mulga.

(note, it isn't real inews, just a cheap imitation (like those cheap
imitation Amulets of Yendor that we wouldn't know anthing about)).

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