HyperNews: Source: Installation: Email Gateway

HyperNews can already send out email notification to subscribers when something has been posted. See the Instructions for Subscribing. The 'sendmail' program is used for this purpose since it takes care of alot of concerns we would have, such as handling rejection, queuing for retries, etc.

Enabling Outgoing Email

To enable outgoing email, you might have to configure sendmail to allow your server process to be a trusted user (See the sendmail.cf T option). This is because HyperNews wants to use the sendmail -f command line option to say that it is Owner-HyperNews sending a message on behalf of the author. Any mailing list software would want to do the same.

HyperNews is configured by default to use a set of options with sendmail that should probably work on your system too. But every sendmail configuration tends to be different, and different sendmail versions have different restrictions and/or bugs.

In some sendmail versions/configurations, if there is a failure to deliver a message to any local user, mail to all recipients will fail. With the -oem option, at least the error is mailed to the 'sender'. Perhaps immediate queueing of the message with -odq will avoid this problem. Hints from sendmail experts appreciated here.

The default addesses used by HyperNews for email are "HyperNews" and "Owner-HyperNews". "HyperNews" is used for the visible recipient of email, i.e. the "To" header, since the real recipients are not listed in the headers. "Owner-HyperNews" is used as the envelope sender of messages and the "Errors-To" address, so reject mail (due to bad addresses, etc) will typically be sent there.

These addresses may cause problems for your sendmail unless you add them to your system mail alias file, or change the addresses in your configuration file (hnrc) to something real, or disable outgoing email. Also be aware that reject mail will accumulate in the Owner-HyperNews mailbox, and HyperNews has no way yet of dealing with it.

If you are interested in how HyperNews subscription lists work, it is fairly simple. Each forum directory has a 'list' file containing a list of subscribers, one per line. Either a User ID or an Email address may appear on each line. It may be followed by ":Immediate", which means send the mail immediately after each posting to the forum. No other options besides "Immediate" mode are supported at this time. In addition to the forum level 'list' file, each message may have its own list file. The Instructions for Subscribing explain how the sublists are used.

Mailing to HyperNews

There are two ways to reply to a message in most mail programs. Either reply to just the sender of the message or reply to the sender and all recipients of the message. First a little background on how email works with HyperNews.

When HyperNews sends out email, the sender is always the author, and is identified by the "From:" header line. One exception is when the author is unknown; in that case, "Owner-HyperNews" is used since mail programs require that there be some sender.

[BTW, the real recipients of the message are those who subscribed to receive the notification - they are not listed visibly in the outgoing email because they are given in the Bcc field. The only visible recipient is 'HyperNews' (specified by the $mail_to variable). When HyperNews is configured to receive incoming email, this special 'HyperNews' address is an email alias that has a program (mail-incoming.pl) attached to it that posts the message to a HyperNews forum.]

So if you receive email from HyperNews you can reply directly to the author in which case no one else will see it. Or you can reply to the author and all the recipients (i.e. just 'HyperNews'), and all the subscribers will see it. This is done typically with a command called "Reply to All" in your mail program, but check that it does the right thing. Of course, you can mail your reply just to HyperNews too; the author will probably also get the email indirectly via HyperNews.

There is a way to configure HyperNews so it will include a "Reply-to" line in outgoing messages. If you (the administrator) do this, then all email replies will typically be sent to whatever is specified in the Reply-to line, such as "HyperNews". Some mailing lists like do this to encourage all replies to be sent to the list, but I find it very annoying since sometimes I know I just want to send my reply to the author and there is no way to do so without manually copying and pasting the author's address. Furthermore, people accidently post to the list when they intended to reply only to the sender.

How does a message get posted to the right forum?

However, other mail programs (e.g. older versions of Eudora) do not include an In-Reply-To header. If your reply does not get posted properly, the cause might be that your mail program has not created this header. You can try to post a message on the HyperNews Test Forum and reply to it by email to see if your mail program does the right thing.

Outgoing mail from HyperNews includes, at the top of the body, exactly the In-Reply-To header line that should appear in the header of your reply. If you cannot add it to the header section (some mail programs don't let you add header lines) then you have one more option: you can include it as the very first line of your reply where HyperNews will look for it. HyperNews version 1.9.7 will also ignore leading spaces and '>' chars on that line, but for older versions, be sure to start the "In-Reply-To" at the beginning of the line.

Another issue is the title of your message, which is specified by the "Subject" header line. The default Subject line that many mail programs produce when you reply to a message is not terribly informative (e.g. "Re: What he said"), especially when viewed in a HyperNews forum, so you are encouraged to change the Subject line to something specific to your message.

The In-Reply-To header works fine if you are replying to a message, but what if you want to post a new message to a forum? In this case, it is not a reply to anything. But HyperNews lets you post a new message to a forum by including a "Newsgroups:" header line that specifies the URL of the forum you are posting to. E.g.

Newsgroups: http://www.hypernews.org/HyperNews/get/hypernews/test.html

For each mail message received by the HyperNews email gateway, if it is not a reply to a preexisting thread and does not have a "Newsgroups" header, HyperNews returns a "HyperNews Posting Error" message indicating that it doesn't know where to post the new message.

There is one other way to post a message to a forum that works for both replies and new messages. If you configure your forum to use an email address that is specific to the forum, then you can also mail directly to that address. See below for how to do this.

If the HyperNews site you want to post a message (or reply) to is restricted to members-only, then you must make sure that the email address used to identify you as the author of your message is also a member of the HyperNews site. You can check this by using the Inquire About Member option on the membership form for the site. The upper and lower case characters in the email addresses are significant. (This will be fixed in a future version.)

Why do I still get email?

If you are the "owner" of a forum you will be subscribed by default. This means you get email notification for every posting. If you don't want that, you can explicitly unsubscribe.

If you are an administrator, you might be getting all email notifications because you have been named in the "HyperNews" email alias. Your version of sendmail might require that email be sent to some explicit address and that address might have to be for a user who exists (such as you) in order for email to be sent to anyone. If you want to disable all email, that would be one rather drastic solution to the problem. Another solution is to make the $mail_to address be an alias that sends the mail to /dev/null. The following works with sendmail V8.7.5.

  HyperNews: "| cat > /dev/null"

  HyperNews: /dev/null

Don't swap the $mail_to and $mail_from addresses in hnrc. This may appear to work, but you will be setting yourself up for more confusion.

Enabling Incoming Email

To use this feature, you need to do a few things in addition to the normal installation of HyperNews. Also, you'll probably want to enable outgoing mail by setting $hnEmail to 1, but it is not strictly necessary.

• Do setup via the web using setup-form.pl or setup-short-form.pl, or if you run setup.pl via the command line, manually set the values of $ENV{SERVER_HOST} and $ENV{SERVER_PORT} in the hnrc file. Also, make sure $hnprefix is correct.

• Enable incoming email in hnrc by setting $allowEmailIn to 1. It is 0 by default.

• Create an administrator for use only by the mail-incoming program; it will only be used to authenticate on behalf of users who post messages via email since we don't have another way to authenticate by email. You must edit the member info for this special administrator and set its password to a non-blank password. Then store the user ID and password of this admin in $mail_admin and $mail_admin_password in the hnrc file and add the user ID to the @hnAdmin list. You must run setup.pl after changing the @hnAdmin list. If you don't do all this correctly, you will get an error something like "401 Authorization Required" when sending mail to mail-incoming.pl

• Add an alias to your /usr/lib/aliases file (or whatever it is called) that looks like:

    HyperNews: "| /full/path/to/HyperNews/.scripts/mail-incoming.pl"
  

  The "HyperNews" alias is whatever is in your $mail_to variable. You should probably also have an Owner-HyperNews alias that points to a real user such as you. Make sure mail-incoming.pl is executable by the user:group running sendmail or procmail, typically root:bin.

  If you have multiple installations, you will want to have one HyperNews alias for each, but they could share a common Owner-HyperNews.

• If you do not have access to your system's alias file, perhaps you can pipe mail to the mail-incoming.pl program by some other means. Here are a couple possibilities.
  • If you are using procmail, the following lines in your .procmailrc file will copy all incoming mail that is to your "HyperNews" address to the mail-incoming.pl program.

    # All hypernews mail
    :0 c
    * ^TO hypernews
    | /full/path/to/HyperNews/.scripts/mail-incoming.pl
    

  • If you get mail via a POP server, try the batch-fetch-pop-mail.pl program. Variants of this for imap and nntp are still needed.

• You can also configure each forum (or base article) to have its own email address so it looks more like a mailing list, but you don't have to. See the section below on that subject.

Mail Loops

A loop can occur if the .midDB directory is not correct for some reason, because then HyperNews can't tell that you have already posted a message. It checks whether the message ID has already been seen, and if not, then it assumes this is a new message and proceeds to post it. Make sure you have no filter on your mail that changes the message ID before mail-incoming.pl sees it. That would cause a loop.

We also add a special X-Hn-Loop header to outgoing email, and check for that header in incoming email. But some gateways may remove unknown headers, so the message ID check is also useful.

Be sure to test your incoming email gateway, and be around when you do test it so you can quickly disable a mail loop. You can disable a mail loop by turning off all handling of incoming email: move mail-incoming.pl to somewhere else, or edit mail-incoming.pl to add "exit 0;", or edit your hnrc to set "$allowEmailIn = 0;", or change the mail alias that forwards mail to mail-incoming.pl. Take your pick, but be prepared to do it quick.

Setting up a Mailing List per Forum

To create a forum specific email gateway:

1. Edit the <forum>.html,urc file manually or use the SECURED/edit-article.pl/<forumname>.html web form to set the Email List Address to the forum-specific alias you are going to use.

   For example, if the forum were called "books" and you wanted any messages sent to "books@domain.com" to be added directly to the forum, you would specify "books@domain.com" in the 'books.html,urc' file (or use the web form '../edit-article.pl/books.html').

2. Create a mail alias in your aliases file ('/usr/lib/aliases' or '.qmail-' or procmail configuration, or similar) which runs the mail-incoming.pl script with a '-f /<forum>' argument.

   Using the example ("books") above, the mail alias line in /etc/aliases would be:

    books: "| /full/path/to/HyperNews/.scripts/mail-incoming.pl -f /books"
   

   If you are using qmail, the alias might appear in the file .qmail-domain-books or .qmail-books and contain only:

    | /full/path/to/HyperNews/.scripts/mail-incoming.pl -f /books
   

   So you could add similar lines for specific forums just as above.

   Note that the <forum> must have a leading '/' and not a trailing '.html'. And there is a space after the '-f'.

Troubleshooting the HyperNews Email Gateway

The mail-incoming.pl script attempts to send error messages back to the sender. Here are some of the errors that you may see and what you can do about them.

Sendmail error of some kind, e.g. Service unavailable.

There are several possible causes:

• Verify that the file permissions on the mail-incoming script allow the mail program to run it, and the directories above it are readable.

• Check that mail-incoming.pl is able to run at all. Try `perl -c mail-incoming.pl`.

"HyperNews Posting Error"

If messages are being returned to the sender with this message, there are several possiblities. Check the <forum>.html,urc file for the forum to see if you have specified the email list address correctly, and then verify that the email alias is functioning and contains the proper -f /<forum> command. (If there is not a list address, then HyperNews relies on In-Reply-To headers to figure out what forum to put each message in.) Along with the "HyperNews Posting Error" should be a status code. This is the status that HTTP returned when attempting to post the message. (more... )

"Authorization Required" in return mail or debug file.

This means that mail-incoming was able to attempt to post the message to a forum. But it failed because authorization was required. Check the $mail_admin and password.

Insecure dependency in eval while running setuid at .. Socket.pm

A tainting error in mail-incoming may be caused by how your sendmail calls mail-incoming.pl. Perl may be invoked in a way that does taint checks automatically. The tainting error in Socket.pm is caused when http.pl is used to POST the message. I don't believe it is a signficant problem, but I haven't figured out how to work around it. To turn off the tainting checks, you can add "-U" to the first line of mail-incoming.pl.

Others... (let me know)

Still To Do

• Read and process the date header - the email date format is slightly different from HTTP format.

• Handle To and Cc lines to add them as public subscribers. (store in Cc field in urc file?)

• Support MIME and attachments. Put attachments in subdirectory of message, accessible via HN script.

• Use address of recipient to determine what forum to post to. This would be a convenient substitute for the -f argument.

• Refuse to post or delay posting a reply within a short time (1 minute?) of the date the original was posted. This would be another loop stopper, and spam blocker. But some loops can take longer. Also, some non-loops might take shorter time and still be OK. Better to be safe than sorry.

• Need to better support multiple email aliases for members, and finish support for case-insensitive email addresses and userids.

• Rewrite the whole mess using Perl 5 modules for mail support, MIME, etc.

References

• Project Cyrus Home page has lots of references to mail related resources.
• Hypermail converts email to HTML with indexes.
• MHonArc is one of the better MIME mail handlers, written in Perl.
• CoCoBoard allows a simple and inituitive email to html interface.
• MHTML group - an IETF effort to develop a standard for sending HTML-formatted e-mail. I believe the group is misnamed because it is really about URLs in MIME packages.
• Use of Reply-To in Internet E-Mail messages - (draft-ietf-drums-kre-reply-to-00.txt by Robert Elz) explains some problems and recommendations regarding the Reply-To header.
• Identification of messages delivered via both mail and news - (draft-ietf-usefor-posted-mailed-01.txt by Matt Curtin and Jamie Zawinski) defines a format to be used when delivering a single message to multiple destinations.

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1 SMTP easy by goranson@kcc-computers.com, 1995, Aug 27

1 Processing Headers and Content is the Challenging Part by liberte@hypernews.org, 1995, Aug 27

2 Email interface to HyperNews by Joseph Wang, 1995, Aug 07

1 Bidirectional email support coming by liberte@hypernews.org, 1995, Aug 07

Email to Hypernews by cosborn@bbn.com, 1995, Aug 29

1 Yes, what about attachments? by clh1@nrc.gov, 1995, Sep 26

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2 Untitled by ranif@ibm.net, 1996, Dec 28

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3 email to HyperNews? by Torre Wenaus, 1995, May 15

1 Email and News gateways coming by liberte@hypernews.org, 1995, May 16

1 Special Headers and Formats for Hypernews <-> Email Messages by goranson@kcc-computers.com, 1995, Sep 02

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2 Hypermail (www.eit.com) as Model by unknown@ppp2.spacelab.net, 1995, Nov 17

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2 I agree that this is an important addition. by mahoney@marlboro.edu, 1995, May 17

4 Formating of messages - tabs, spaces, LF, etc..... by Craig Goranson, 1995, Sep 02

1 Auto-formatting vs User-specified formatting by Daniel LaLiberte, 1995, Sep 03

5 Emil does email conversion by Daniel LaLiberte, 1995, Nov 30

6 How can people help by Jeff Heinen, 1995, Dec 27

1 Lots of ways by liberte@hypernews.org, 1995, Dec 27

7 Some simple "mail to HyperNews" concepts by Ulrich Kroener - EIBA, 1996, Jan 03

1 Another Concept by Jeff Heinen, 1996, Jan 03

1 "Headers" in the message body by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Jan 03

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2 In-Reply-To not supported by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Jan 03

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2 E-mail to HN formats by Ulrich Kroener - EIBA, 1996, Jan 04

1 A few complications for message IDs and header lines by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Jan 04

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3 MHonArc, an e-mail archiving program with MIME capabilities by Ulrich Kroener - EIBA, 1996, Jan 08

1 So how will this work... by jeffh@ee.pdx.edu, 1996, Jan 08

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4 transfer e mail by Jeff, 2004, Jan 14

8 mail to HN conversion utility almost ready by Ulrich Kroener - EIBA, 1996, Jan 26

1 WooHoo! by jeffh@ee.pdx.edu, 1996, Jan 29

2 Let me know please by wojtek@tryc.on.ca, 1996, Feb 02

3 email gateway status and question by ray@carpe.net, 1996, Feb 05

1 Mailing list archive by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Feb 05

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2 HyperNews and MailList and Subjects.. Oh My! by jeffh@ee.pdx.edu, 1996, Feb 05

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4 Hows It goin'? by jeffh@ee.pdx.edu, 1996, Feb 22

1 Getting there by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Feb 22

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2 Help needed - additional header lines by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Feb 22

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3 Help needed - attachements by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Feb 22

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5 Simple gateway is out, but wait for HN gateway by ulrich@eiba.com, 1996, Feb 22

9 Subscribing to pages via email by Jeff Heinen, 1996, Jan 31

1 Subscribe and Unsubscribe commands by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Jan 31

1 Email Commandos by jeffh@ee.pdx.edu, 1996, Jan 31

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2 My Plan by jeffh@ee.pdx.edu, 1996, Jan 31

1 Modularity is key in designing email functions by ulrich@eiba.com, 1996, Feb 06

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3 I vote yes by drossall@iee.org.uk, 1996, Nov 07

10 subscribe to top level only? by Miles R. Fidelman, 1996, Feb 05

1 followup comment by ccn@shore.net, 1996, Feb 05

3 Other ways to subscribe and depth ideas by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Feb 05

1 I Concur with Miles. Check Valve on the Information Fire Hose by jfelder@lerc.nasa.gov, 1996, Jul 01

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11 Mailing list for Hyper News by Wojciech Tryc, 1996, Feb 05

1 A single mailing list is anathma to HyperNews by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Feb 05

12 Dumb question: where can I get mailto:? by Dennis, 1996, Feb 05

1 Some browsers have it, some don't by liberte@hypernews.org, 1995, Feb 10

1 CGIs are better! by @way.outer.net, 1995, Jun 26

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6 Try there by Patrick.Herman@ping.be, 1996, Mar 16

7 or here by Patrick.Herman@ping.be, 1996, Mar 16

13 A concept for binary attachments by Ulrich Kroener - EIBA, 1996, Feb 05

14 HyperNews-Mail Gateway by Roberto M. Melo, 1996, Feb 10

1 Applications of a HyperNews-Mail Gateway by Roberto M. Melo, 1996, Feb 10

2 Parsing by Roberto M. Melo, 1996, Feb 10

3 Recognizing reject mail by Roberto M. Melo, 1996, Feb 10

4 Posting Messages by Roberto M. Melo, 1996, Feb 10

5 HyperNews Commands Through Email by Roberto M. Melo, 1996, Feb 10

1 the "<undisclosed-recipients>" command by AGrimes6@excite.com, 2000, Dec 01

6 Additional Functionality that is not a priority by Roberto M. Melo, 1996, Feb 10

7 Message ID Database by Roberto M. Melo, 1996, Feb 10

8 Whoa! by Ulrich Kroener - EIBA, 1996, Feb 22

16 From markers should include Email addresses by Ulmo@Q.Net, 1995, Dec 05

17 Status by Ulrich Kroener - EIBA, 1996, Mar 26

1 Basics are done by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Mar 26

This is how I do it.. by jeffh@ee.pdx.edu, 1996, Mar 27

Thanks - that's the kind of thing we need by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Mar 27

Yes, but ... by ulrich@eiba.com, 1996, Mar 28

Perhaps Majordomo will do by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Mar 28

1 Well.. Kinda by jeffh@ee.pdx.edu, 1996, Mar 28

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2 Be careful ... by ulrich@eiba.com, 1996, Mar 29

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18 MIME + attachments? by cosborn@bbn.com, 1995, Aug 30

1 Alternatives for Attachments by liberte@hypernews.org, 1995, Aug 30

Netscape 2.0 allows uploads! by rhand@heald.edu, 1996, Jan 22

1 Looks like it might work! by rhand@heald.edu, 1996, Jan 22

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2 We could add file upload support now by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Jan 22

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19 Mailing responses by Ryan J. Bruner, 1995, Sep 12

1 Works here by liberte@hypernews.org, 1995, Sep 13

1 A misunderstanding... by rbruner@corpnet.com, 1995, Sep 14

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2 How do i setup a mailing list into the HyperNews account? (please respond to MY hypernews server (1 respond button) by hn@egnatia.ee.auth.gr, 1995, Dec 17

1 This is also an idea..HyperNews inside HyperNews.. by hn@egnatia.ee.auth.gr, 1995, Dec 17

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20 Reflector between HyperNews and Majordomo by Jim Fox, 1995, Sep 28

1 The Incorporation by jeffh@ee.pdx.edu, 1996, May 22

21 Notification Fix by Nigel Hutchison, 1995, Oct 17

1 Unfix those fixes by liberte@hypernews.org, 1995, Oct 17

22 Malformed header -- add-article.pl by Whirlin, 1995, Oct 22

1 Same problem now that I'm using Apache by pwiseman@mindspring.com, 1995, Oct 23

1 Goes away with mail option disabled by pwiseman@mindspring.com, 1995, Oct 23

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2 Or by creating a sendmail alias for HyperNews by pwiseman@mindspring.com, 1995, Oct 23

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23 hypernews without sendmail? (and notification) by John Troyer, 1995, Oct 23

1 Sendmail is not essential by liberte@hypernews.org, 1995, Oct 23

Not sendmail, how about Post.Office? by kevinc@lansat.net, 1998, Aug 03

24 Run HyperNews on Netsite server by Angel, 1996, Jan 12

1 Possible Fix (sendmail incompatibility?) by pryan@wsipc.wednet.edu, 1996, Jan 11

Links don't work! by angel@hknet.com, 1996, Jan 11

Post HTML source and error message by ulrich@eiba.com, 1996, Jan 11

25 In-Reply-To <unknown> problems by Daniel LaLiberte, 1996, Apr 26

26 HN1.9B5.7 and Email replys by jeffh@ee.pdx.edu, 1996, May 22

27 Compuserve e-mail addresses by jtara@stockclub.com, 1996, May 13

1 Should be OK by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, May 30

28 Need Email address per forum, in some cases by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, May 31

1 Just my 2 bits by jeffh@ee.pdx.edu, 1996, May 31

Forum option by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, May 31

29 Can't create directory: $hndocs by Jim Mahoney, 1996, Jun 10

1 Variable substitution problem by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Jun 11

Yup, that fixed it. by mahoney@marlboro.edu, 1996, Jun 11

30 I'm confused by Martin Huntley, 1996, Jun 17

1 401 error - probably missing $mail_admin by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Jun 18

31 Disabling Mail Reception for Members by hroberts@princeton.edu, 1996, Jun 20

1 Umm.. Huh? by jeffh@ee.pdx.edu, 1996, Jun 20

32 401 Error can be due to .htaccess file? But then I have error 200... by Ulrich Kroener - EIBA, 1996, Jun 25

1 Error 200 maybe due to bug in hnrc by ulrich@www.eiba.be, 1996, Jun 25

2 And if you have a htaccess file in your HyperNews directory... by ulrich@eiba.com, 1996, Jun 25

1 Email postings to members-only installations should work by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Jul 01

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2 How to check if the email admin has been set up properly by ulrich@eiba.com, 1996, Jul 03

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33 Error posting message: 421 SMTP connection went away by Patrick Wiseman, 1996, Jul 08

1 I give up - $hnprefix should be OK by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Jul 08

2 That's fixed -- now 'Permission Denied' by pwiseman@mindspring.com, 1996, Jul 09

34 Potentially Silly Email Install Question by Jeff Heinen, 1996, Jul 08

1 A little debugging info by jeffh@ee.pdx.edu, 1996, Jul 09

35 Success .. but? by Patrick Wiseman, 1996, Jul 09

1 Maybe a simpler, safer solution by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Jul 09

Re: Maybe a simpler, safer solution by pwiseman@mindspring.com, 1996, Jul 09

36 E-mail for administrator by Russell Benasaraf, 1996, Jul 16

1 Someone always gets email by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Jul 22

37 link HyperNews to a list server? by Jack S. Downing, 1996, Jul 17

1 List server archiving with HyperNews is now possible by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Jul 23

majordomo List Server format by spage@macromedia, 1996, Aug 01

38 Enabling incoming mail produces skipped numbers by Martin Huntley, 1996, Jul 29

39 Convert mailbox to base articles? by Joseph M. Orost, 1996, Aug 09

1 Good idea by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Aug 09

40 Problem with e-mail replies--server status 401 returned by Blaine Price, 1996, Sep 06

1 Access restriction problem by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Sep 06

41 Problems with Email gateway and HyperNews 1.9 by Kevin Bocek, 1996, Sep 10

1 Need details on rejection by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Sep 10

Details regarding rejection by klb@info.bts.gov, 1996, Sep 11

In-Reply-To in body works for me by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Sep 18

42 Problem with attachments getting corrupted in e-mail postings by Blaine Price, 1996, Oct 10

43 Email is a terrible thing. We want nothing to do with it. by David Wood, 1996, Oct 12

1 Email Is Ok by jeffh@ee.pdx.edu, 1996, Oct 14

44 Email loops and how to stop them by Lilly-Anne Wilder, 1996, Oct 16

1 What loops? by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Oct 16

45 Incoming mail goes missing! by Shehan, 1996, Oct 21

46 Trying to figure out posting via email by Shmuel Browns, 1996, Nov 07

1 TEST - response should be emailed to me by shmuel@pogo.edc.org, 1996, Nov 07

2 Re: Trying to figure out posting via email by shmuel@pogo.edc.org, 1996, Nov 07

1 Re: Trying to figure out posting via email by shmuel@pogo.edc.org, 1996, Nov 07

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47 Cannot get inbound e-mail to work (Problem seems similar to Shehan's above) by Detlef Ruschin, 1996, Nov 08

1 Know a bit more now by Ruschin@HHI.DE, 1996, Nov 08

Authentication request by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Nov 08

48 Nasty problem with http.pl - bind() by Michael Joosten, 1996, Nov 14

1 Bug when mail host is not web host by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Nov 15

49 Message-Id: not rewritten for incoming email by Paul Raines, 1996, Nov 25

1 Message-Id should remain the same by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Nov 26

1 Re: Message-Id should remain the same by moore@cs.utk.edu, 1996, Nov 26

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2 Re: Message-Id should remain the same by raines@SLAC.Stanford.EDU, 1996, Nov 26

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3 Re: Message-Id should remain the same by masinter@parc.xerox.com, 1996, Nov 27

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50 Help with mail by Ron, 1996, Dec 09

1 did you try . . . ? by angela@gateway.grumman.com, 1997, Sep 30

2 need help putting music on my e-mail signature file by Tx_LilLady@webtv.net, 1998, Oct 13 [Moved]

51 Restricting incoming email by Martin Huntley, 1996, Dec 27

1 Email posting access restriction bug! by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Dec 30

Re: Email posting access restriction bug! by mhuntley@bbn.com, 1996, Dec 31

Better fix by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Dec 31

Re: More: Better fix by mhuntley@bbn.com, 1997, Jan 02

mail-incoming is getting the wrong hnrc by liberte@hypernews.org, 1997, Jan 14

52 Only one "email reply" allowed by Bruno R. Depascale, 1997, Jan 03

1 Any number of replies should be allowed by liberte@hypernews.org, 1997, Jan 07

I meant replying by e-mail by bruno@inter-soft.com, 1997, Jan 07

53 Wrong reply URL in mail by Ron Wilson, 1997, Jan 12

1 It always uses the Base URL by liberte@hypernews.org, 1997, Jan 14

2 Fixed for 1.9.3 by liberte@hypernews.org, 1997, Jan 23

54 Problems , blank status code in error message and the like by William A. Best, 1997, Jan 14

1 No status means no server, probably. by liberte@hypernews.org, 1997, Jan 14

Similar problem encountered in my configuration. by michael@rd.qms.com, 1997, Jan 23

55 Mail to subscribers using MIME attachments by Hernan Otero, 1997, Jan 16

1 Good idea by liberte@hypernews.org, 1997, Jan 16

PERL support for MIME in MHonArc package by ulrich@eiba.com, 1997, Feb 06

Use MIME-tools instead by liberte@hypernews.org, 1997, Feb 06

56 Email postings by Robert Andersson, 1997, Jan 23

1 Check /tmp/test.out by liberte@hypernews.org, 1997, Jan 23

1 Re: Check /tmp/test.out by Robert.Andersson@cling.gu.se, 1997, Jan 23

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2 Email to HyperNews returns " status '' " by ahsand@nortel.co.uk, 1997, Feb 27

1 mail-incoming error reporting needs work. by liberte@hypernews.org, 1997, Mar 06

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57 mail-incoming.pl from /usr/local/sm.bin by Frank, 1997, Feb 20

1 Maybe link the .scripts directory by liberte@hypernews.org, 1997, Feb 20

smrsh: linking of directories cannot work by rmohr@rmi.de, 1998, May 15

1 Seems overly restrictive by liberte@hypernews.org, 1998, May 16

2 smrsh: Problem solved by rmohr@rmi.de, 1998, May 19

... 1 Message(s)

58 HOW DO I SETUP INCOMING MAIL by SCOTT BOSSI, 1997, Mar 27

1 Did you following the directions? by liberte@hypernews.org, 1997, Mar 29

I have followed directions, but still ... by vsaljuki@nsf.gov, 1999, May 17

Did you miss the HNmail admin setup? by liberte@hypernews.org, 1999, May 18

59 mail-incoming: get email reply : posting error, but posting is o.k. by Frank, 1997, Mar 27

1 Question: mail-incoming: get email reply : posting error, but posting is o.k. by liberte@hypernews.org, 1997, Mar 29

60 No e-mail notification?? by Louis-David Mitterrand, 1997, Apr 30

61 Stopping Email replies by Kerry, 1997, May 09

1 This didn't seem to work for HN 1.10 by Ken Tanaka, 2001, Feb 16

You might get email by some other means by Daniel LaLiberte, 2001, Feb 18

This appears to happen if I change my identity too by Ken Tanaka, 2001, Feb 19

1 Solution: It works if I set the correct variable by Ken Tanaka, 2001, Feb 19

2 Re: More: This appears to happen if I change my identity too by Net Tender, 2001, Feb 19

... 1 Message(s)

62 forged mail? by hu@superprism.net, 1997, Jun 18

1 Signatures would be best by liberte@hypernews.org, 1997, Jun 18

63 Missing Feature by Paulo Neves, 1997, Jun 19 [Moved]

64 Email 403 Errors?? by Dave Kupiec, 1997, Jul 22

1 Answer to Our Problem , 1997, Jul 23

65 ??Simple Configuration by steve@yamner.com, 1997, Aug 15

1 Relatively simple to restrict depth by liberte@hypernews.org, 1997, Aug 18

66 OUTGOIN EMAIL STOPPED - WHY? by SCOTT BOSSI, 1997, Aug 25

67 Different ownership of email-submitted messages by vladimir@cs.ualberta.ca, 1997, Sep 05

68 IS AOL not accepted by HyperNews by Domiblue@aol.com, 1997, Sep 10

69 Setup a remote replicated HyperNews site by Jack Ha, 1997, Sep 25

70 Not posting the correct email address by Angela J. Farrell, 1997, Sep 30

1 found it . . . by angela@gateway.grumman.com, 1997, Oct 21

71 No the server name in the "Newsgroups:" field by Sergei Parinov, 1997, Oct 02

72 Disable owner e-mail by Edward A. Martinez, 1997, Nov 06

73 Problems with email by Lars-Åke Ragnarsson, 1998, Jan 15

1 Disabling email is easy by liberte@hypernews.org, 1998, Jan 15

74 I Need simple clarification about email posting by Charles Bouvette, 1998, Jan 23

1 Untitled by liberte@hypernews.org, 1998, Jan 24

Email Gateway Error, Fix, and New Instructions :) by earth@erowid.com, 1998, Jan 28

Re: Idea: Email Gateway Error, Fix, and New Instructions :) by cbouvette@iname.com, 1998, Jan 29

YES!! YES!! YES!! IT WORKS!!! by cbouvette@iname.com, 1998, Jan 30

75 Answering to an article using eMail by Eric Lemeilleur, 1996, Mar 21

76 E-mail response in 1.9b5.6 - there or not? by Jon Tara, 1996, Apr 18

77 e-mail havoc by jeffh@backpackers.com, 1996, May 08

78 Why in my e-mail inbox? by jw2582@mail.rscs.net, 1996, Jun 02

79 I have an Endless Email Loop!! (Thank God I was here) by Charles Bouvette, 1998, Feb 03

1 Be sure to be around for the first email tests!! by liberte@hypernews.org, 1998, Feb 03

1 Re: Warning: Be sure to be around for the first email tests!! by syoung@frinc.com, 1998, Feb 04

... 2 Message(s)

3 i had exactly the same experience as the author of the first message , 1998, Feb 25

1 i think i solved the problem , 1998, Feb 25

... 2 Message(s)

80 Email->HyperNews Setup - Unknown Error by Marc G. Fournier, 1998, Mar 01

1 Tainting problem by liberte@hypernews.org, 1998, Mar 01

Resolved? by alex@turing.kronos.com, 1999, Sep 09

81 double "In-Reply-To" lines by marcg@bsd2.netcasting.net, 1998, Mar 23

82 Disable outgoing mail by Mark Thompson, 1998, Apr 08

1 Disable all email by disabling subscription by liberte@emancholl.pair.com, 1998, Apr 08

83 Is it safe to run a setuid mail-incoming.pl ? by Thierry Valentin, 1998, Jun 08

84 Can't Post: Incorrect password for HyperNews Mail Administrator (???) by Mark Ohrenschall, 1998, Jul 21

1 So fix the password by liberte@emancholl.pair.com, 1998, Jul 21

It works now! by mao@ngdc.noaa.gov, 1998, Jul 22

Guess the instructions were missing something by liberte@emancholl.pair.com, 1998, Jul 22

85 More infinite email loops by Mark Ohrenschall, 1998, Jul 23

1 Message ID untainting and MS Exchange by liberte@emancholl.pair.com, 1998, Jul 24

86 Aol & Juno work ok? by Kevin Creason, 1998, Aug 03

87 .midDB by Jie, 1998, Sep 01

1 .midDB is created by add-lib.pl by liberte@emancholl.pair.com, 1998, Sep 01

1 Re: .midDB is created by add-lib.pl by J.Gao@isu.usyd.edu.au, 1998, Sep 02

2 Re: .midDB is created by add-lib.pl by J.Gao@isu.usyd.edu.au, 1998, Sep 02

88 intermittent 553 header line too long error by pat@tappedin.sri.com, 1998, Sep 16

1 Too many recipients in Bcc line probably by liberte@emancholl.pair.com, 1998, Sep 16

Thanks, I just saw the bcc problem , 1998, Sep 17

89 Is incoming e-mail enabled in www.hypernews.org HN? by oscar ardaiz, 1998, Sep 17

90 Is emailing to hypernews.org enabled? by oscar ardaiz, 1998, Sep 17

1 Mail postings are working for many by liberte@hypernews.org, 1998, Oct 04

91 Can Owner-HyperNews send email without domain attached? by Carl, 1998, Oct 06

1 Just set $mail_* variables accordingly by liberte@emancholl.pair.com, 1998, Oct 09

92 Email In - Authentication System? by rom, 1998, Oct 12

1 Case-insensitive email addresses may be possible soon by liberte@emancholl.pair.com, 1998, Oct 13

93 Anybody had any mail loops? by L.F., 1998, Nov 15

1 No more mail loops known by liberte@emancholl.pair.com, 1998, Nov 16

94 Using POP rather than a pipe by Jamie Wilson, 1998, Dec 29

1 POP interface would be nice by liberte@emancholl.pair.com, 1998, Dec 29

95 batch-fetch-pop-mail.pl by Mark MacGregor, 1999, Feb 03

1 Getopt::Declare , 1999, Feb 03

2 What was the actual syntax? by me@confused, 1999, May 07

96 In-Reply-To Not Printed on My Messages! by Mark MacGregor, 1999, Feb 12

1 Outlook 97 header stripping problem by liberte@emancholl.pair.com, 1999, Feb 13

97 Incoming email is accepted, but body is blank by Jeff Tiedrich, 1999, Feb 16

1 I have the same problem - could it be related to MIME data ? by pfuchs@web-strategies.com, 1999, Feb 19

2 Missing bodies a mystery by liberte@emancholl.pair.com, 1999, Feb 22

1 Resolution of this problem with MIME-tools by pfuchs@web-strategies.com, 1999, Apr 18

... 2 Message(s)

3 Blank body fixed by mgouget@newlog.com, 1999, Jul 22

98 Getting Error from mail-incoming.pl using batch-fetch-pop-mail.pl by Mark MacGregor, 1999, Mar 10

1 Still Problem! , 1999, Mar 11

Broken pipe error, and MIME handling by liberte@hypernews.org, 1999, Mar 12

Broken Pipe Not Necessarily Debug? , 1999, Mar 14

99 Unknown Mailer Error by Stephanie, 1999, Mar 24

1 sendmail doesn't like mail-incoming? by liberte@hypernews.org, 1999, Mar 26

2 Untitled by stephanie@hawkbane.net, 1999, Apr 14

1 Changing $debug to 0 is better than commenting lines out.. but... by nickb, 1999, Apr 16

2 Resolved Email Article Mail-in Problems by nickb, 1999, Apr 17

101 Which Email programs support In-Reply-To Headers? by Dave Kupiec, 1999, Apr 06

1 Re: Question: Which Email programs support In-Reply-To Headers? by liberte@hypernews.org, 1999, Apr 08

What about References: headers? by davidh+hn@psiphi.org, 1999, Apr 12

References header supported on incoming mail by liberte@hypernews.org, 1999, Apr 12

What email clients use Reference headers? by kupiec@bellsouth.net, 1999, Apr 13

102 Email gateway under a secure server by Paul Fuchs, 1999, Apr 18

1 mail-incoming.pl with support for SSL by pfuchs@web-strategies.com, 1999, May 26

Thanks for support for SSL by liberte@hypernews.org, 1999, May 26

103 Reply message when sending email to HyperNews by Alex Kaplan, 1999, Jun 15

1 Notifying and auto subscribing are not per-forum options by liberte@hypernews.org, 1999, Jun 16

104 Reply-To Header by Bob Connors, 1999, Jul 10

1 Reply-To is discouraged by liberte@hypernews.org, 1999, Jul 13

Re: Reply-To is discouraged by bobsie@orphanage.com, 1999, Jul 13

Per-forum Reply-To list address should be working by liberte@hypernews.org, 1999, Jul 15

Re: Per-forum Reply-To list address should be working by bobsie@orphanage.com, 1999, Jul 16

105 Now I have icons ! by Michel GOUGET, 1999, Jul 22

1 Specification of relationship on incoming mail by liberte@hypernews.org, 1999, Jul 22

106 Moderation needed for forums at my site by Daniel LaLiberte, 1999, Aug 06

107 Doesn't Block Non-Members from Posting via E-Mail by Mark MacGregor, 1999, Aug 24

1 Old bug may be fixed in version 1.10. by liberte@hypernews.org, 1999, Aug 24

1 The same bug in HyperNews 1.10 by edma@genesis.dcaa.unam.mx, 1999, Aug 26

... 3 Message(s)

2 Okay, Installed 1.10 but ... , 1999, Aug 27

1 Authentication , 1999, Aug 27

... 1 Message(s)

2 Status Update on my Problems with 1.10 , 1999, Aug 28

... 2 Message(s)

108 Error 200 / "can't post your message." by B. Kritzberg, 1999, Sep 01

1 Found more debugging info! by blake@wkgroup.com, 1999, Sep 01

NeverMind by blake@wkgroup.com, 1999, Sep 01

109 Incoming gateway problem: "<forumname> not available for sendmail programs" by Alex Krowitz, 1999, Sep 03

1 Tainting problem? by alex@turing.kronos.com, 1999, Sep 09

1 Yes - perhaps your perl imposes taint checks by liberte@hypernews.org, 1999, Sep 10

... 1 Message(s)

2 sendmail complains about Service unavailable by liberte@hypernews.org, 1999, Sep 09

110 Mail Aliases in installation by Eric Frias, 1999, Sep 12

1 Email Aliases settable in hnrc file - but sendmail may override by liberte@hypernews.org, 1999, Sep 12

111 Using SMTP on another server by d.k. henderson, 1999, Oct 10

112 Can't change mail sender from Owner-HyperNews by Glyn Hanton, 1999, Nov 25

1 Owner-HyperNews appears only in hnrc - not hardwired by liberte@hypernews.org, 1999, Nov 26

Is it reading the config file properly ? by g.hanton@herts.ac.uk, 1999, Nov 29

1 Ooops by g.hanton@herts.ac.uk, 1999, Nov 29

2 Indeed, is it reading the config file properly ? by liberte@hypernews.org, 1999, Nov 29

113 405 Method not allowed error by Jimmy Braden, 2000, Jan 03

1 add-response.pl needs to be accessed via HyperNews directory by liberte@hypernews.org, 2000, Jan 04

114 401 error when using incoming email - I made sure I had a HNMail admin by Jimmy Braden, 2000, Jan 12

1 There may be more steps you are missing. by liberte@hypernews.org, 2000, Jan 13

115 URL problem by Philip D. Hatfield, 2000, Jan 23

116 E-mail submission issues by David Rossall, 2000, Jan 25

1 Mostly In-Reply-To problems by liberte@hypernews.org, 2000, Jan 26

Re: Mostly In-Reply-To problems by drossall@iee.org.uk, 2000, Jan 26

117 e-mailing a message simultaneously to multiple forums by george.redlinger@bnl.gov, 2000, Feb 17

1 Multi-forum posting is not supported by liberte@hypernews.org, 2000, Feb 21

118 Posting via email when one is a member by George Redlinger, 2000, Mar 23

1 See $mail_admin in your hnrc file by Daniel LaLiberte, 2000, Mar 23

120 sender and recipient rewrite not working.. cgiwrap? by Richard Grant, 2000, Jul 24

1 mail mysteries by liberte@holonexus.org, 2000, Jul 25

121 Mail bombs & Filters by alok_chatterjee@hotmail.com, 2000, Aug 18

122 Help needed with incoming mail by Martha, 2000, Aug 22

123 Remote User not Verifying by Maynard, 2001, Feb 10

1 Solved ! by Maynard, 2001, Feb 11

124 Can I do 2-way email gateway without sendmail? by Shan, 2001, Apr 10

2 Alternative mail programs possible by Daniel LaLiberte, 2001, Apr 16

125 example of obtuse documentation by Evan Cooch, 2001, Jun 28

1 further, in the same vain... by Evan Cooch, 2001, Jun 28

1 last query for now by Evan Cooch, 2001, Jun 28

2 Documentation always assumes something by Daniel LaLiberte, 2001, Jul 05

127 Inbound responses not working by dempsey, 2002, Sep 15

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