[Q] Mail to news gateway software

[Neil Ford]

On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 01:15:55PM +0100, Jonathan Belson wrote:
> Hiya
> 
> 
> I've just been looking into setting up a mail to news
> gateway to make it easier to keep up with the mailing
> lists I get.
> 
> I've had a rummage through the ports collection but I
> haven't been able to find an all-in-one solution -
> anyone know if there is such a thing?
> 
> The alternative would be a program to selectively
> download from a pop server, convert the mails to
> usenet format then send to a local news server. Have
> any of you guys ever done this?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
You might want to look at the Perl module Mail::Audit (look on CPAN for it
http://www.cpan.org), for as well as being a fetchmail/procmail replacement,
it does exactly what you want.

I haven't got around to using it myself, though following a presentation from
the author, Simon Couzens, I definitely intend to.

Neil.
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Neil C. Ford
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neil at yacsc.com