HOWTO: Turn your ezmlm (mailing list) to newsgroups using nntp server and protocol.
The answer is colobus. What is colobus ?
+ colobus: an nntp server for perl and ezmlm + colobus is a news (nntp) server written in perl that serves up ezmlm mailing list archives as newsgroups. + colobus are very social monkeys. there are eight species of colobus that live throughout sub-saharan africa. they are also amazing jumpers. + colobus is the software that powers the news.php.net news server. (the software for the web interface to the news server is currently a separate project.) + colobus is free to download, use, and distribute. to install, download the source and follow the instructions in the INSTALL file. + colobus requires the BerkeleyDB, Mail::Address, MLDBM, and Storable perl modules, available from CPAN.
u can check it at news.php.net
telnet news.php.net 119 200 news.php.net - colobus 1.0 ready - (posting ok).
The installation is simple (just follow the instruction as INSTALL file)
[ i set it run as vpopmail.vchkpw as it can also be run as other user]
and be aware of perl library that required like BerkeleyDB, Mail::Address, MLDBM and Storable perl modules.
Lastly, the web-interface for the newsgroups. :)
oh my ! can download it from http://cvs.php.net/cvs.php/php-news-web (all files) (written by jim winstead. no rights reserved.)
it looks like this http://news.php.net/group.php?group=php.announce
*** i wonder/hope that it can be included as official Bill shupp- toaster ?
Interesting, but the web-interface doesn't appear to be searchable. Am I correct? If so, this is the same shortcoming that plagues ezmlm-cgi.
Regards,
Bill
