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MAILPOST(1)					      MAILPOST(1)

NAME
       mailpost - feed an email message into a news group

SYNOPSIS
       mailpost	 [ -r addr ] [ -f addr ] [ -a addr ] [ -d distri_
       bution ] [ -m mailing-list ] [ -b database ] newsgroups

DESCRIPTION
       The mailpost program reads a properly formatted email mes
       sage  from  stdin  and  feeds it to inews for posting to a
       news server. Before feeding the article to inews it checks
       that  the article has not been seen before, and it changes
       some headers (cleans some  address  headers  up	and  puts
       ``X-'' in front of unknown headers).

       If  the article has been seen before (mailpost records the
       message-id of all articles is handles),	the  the  article
       will  be	 silently  dropped.  Other  errors will cause the
       article to be mailed to the newsmaster.

       Normally mailpost is run by sendmail via an alias entry:

	      local-mail-wreck-bikes: "|<PREFIX specified with --prefix at configure>/bin/mailpost
		       -d local local.mail.rec.bicycles.racing"

       newsgroups cannot be multiple groups.  Only one	newsgroup
       name is allowed.

OPTIONS
       -r     If the ``-r'' flag is used the program will use the
	      given address as the Path header, if no other value
	      can be determined.

       -f     The ``-f'' flag is a synonym for the ``-r'' flag.

       -a     If the ``-a'' flag is used the value given is added
	      to the article as an Approved header.

       -d     If the ``-d'' flag is used the value given is added
	      to the article as a Distribution header.

       -m     If the ``-m'' flag is used the value given is added
	      to the articles in  a  Mailing-List  header,  if	a
	      Mailing-List header doesn't already exist.

       -b     IF  the  ``-b''  flag  is used, then it defines the
	      location of the database used to store the  message
	      ids  of  articles sent on. This is to prevent arti
	      cles looping around if a news to mail gateway sends
	      them  back here. This option may be required if the
	      mailpost process doesn't have write access  to  the
	      news   tmp  directory  (the  value  of  pathtmp  in
	      inn.conf(5).

HISTORY
       Written by Paul Vixie long ago and then hacked up by James
       Brister	for  INN  integration.	This is revision 1.2.2.3,
       dated 2001/09/22.

FILES
       <pathdb in inn.conf>/mailpost-msgid.db  database file

BUGS
       Is lacking in configurability.

SEE ALSO
       active(5), inn.conf(5), nnrpd(8), wildmat(3).

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