Re: Using mhonarc as a news archiver

2000-04-14 Thread Earl Hood
On April 11, 2000 at 12:50, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Couldn't use an NNTP Perl module to suck posts from an NNTP server > > and pipe the data to procmail? > Probably, but wasn't that up on what is available, trying "suck" > currently. It seems to be very slow compared to Emacs/gnus downloading >

Re: Using mhonarc as a news archiver

2000-04-11 Thread Christopher Lindsey
> Somewhere I got the idea that the hallmark 'From ' line and space at > the end that are the earmarks of unix-message format, were required > for procmail to work. Is this not the case? Still haven't had a > chance to experiment to find out for sure. You really only need the "From " line if yo

Re: Using mhonarc as a news archiver

2000-04-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Earl Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On April 10, 2000 at 14:53, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > For my purpose I want to somehow get the nntp data that my newsclient > > (Gnus) uses, split it to procmail for filtering etc but also keep the > > normal input to Emacs/Gnus news client intact. > > >

Re: Using mhonarc as a news archiver

2000-04-11 Thread Earl Hood
On April 10, 2000 at 14:53, Harry Putnam wrote: > For my purpose I want to somehow get the nntp data that my newsclient > (Gnus) uses, split it to procmail for filtering etc but also keep the > normal input to Emacs/Gnus news client intact. > > Probably need some more direct way of getting nntp

Re: Using mhonarc as a news archiver

2000-04-11 Thread Earl Hood
On April 10, 2000 at 08:57, Thomas Rother wrote: > Another question: If mhonarc archives are separated by month, how are those > threads handled which continue in a following month? Is there a dirrect link > between subsequent threads/months? Thread linking across archives is not supported.

Re: Using mhonarc as a news archiver

2000-04-10 Thread Christopher Lindsey
> This looks alot like something I've wanted to do, and tinkered with > for a while. > > Sorry for being dense here but it isn't clear to my inexperienced eye > how the news messages are coming in to be redirected to procmail. Unfortunately, this is only a server-based (INN) approach. I'll wo

Re: Using mhonarc as a news archiver

2000-04-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Christopher Lindsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We have INN 2.x - that should work. > > Sorry about the delayed response... Playing catch-up today. > > > > We lost our feed and our ISP won't let us do anything through > > >inn -- we need to use suck or something (which I do

Re: Using mhonarc as a news archiver

2000-04-10 Thread Christopher Lindsey
> We have INN 2.x - that should work. Sorry about the delayed response... Playing catch-up today. > > We lost our feed and our ISP won't let us do anything through > >inn -- we need to use suck or something (which I don't want to > > Hm, I think we have at least some of that bu

Re: Using mhonarc as a news archiver

2000-04-10 Thread Thomas Rother
Earl Hood schrieb: > On March 31, 2000 at 09:32, Thomas Rother wrote: > > > We want to make the archives directly on the server, by accessing the > > var/spool/news directory. > > I believe inn stores data compatible with MH mail folders: Each > post is in a separate file with a numeric filename.

Re: Using mhonarc as a news archiver

2000-04-02 Thread Thomas Rother
Christopher Lindsey schrieb: > > We want to make the archives directly on the server, by accessing the > > var/spool/news directory. > > What news server are you using? I have a newsfeeds entry for inn > that will feed incoming messages to a procmail filter, which in turn > can perform Berkeley-

Re: Using mhonarc as a news archiver

2000-04-01 Thread Earl Hood
On March 31, 2000 at 09:32, Thomas Rother wrote: > While all is clear with using Mhonarc itself, there is the quesion how > to convert news data into mail data. The only package I could find was > a pretty old Mail2News script written by Rich Salz (The creator of > the INN). > > We want to make

Re: Using mhonarc as a news archiver

2000-03-31 Thread Christopher Lindsey
> While all is clear with using Mhonarc itself, there is the quesion how > to convert news data into mail data. The only package I could find was > a pretty old Mail2News script written by Rich Salz (The creator of > the INN). > > We want to make the archives directly on the server, by accessing