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    From Alessandro Trebbi@2:331/313 to All on Thu Jan 16 22:47:40 2020

    Hello everybody!

    I have some probems with mystic nntp

    - when i'm not receiving poster email (it's relevant for my purposes, is there a way to create a functioning one given username and origin ?)
    - when i post messages, all messages are written in behalf of user i use for login (may i override this value? with a custom header?)
    - i have no way to recognize messages that i have postes (so that, they all are received again and i have duplicates); again, may i send a custome header that mystic will send me back ?

    or is there an alternative nntp server that may m bypass these problems ?
    i would like to synchronize my bbs message base with a web forum

    Alessandro


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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Alessandro Trebbi on Fri Jan 17 21:02:00 2020
    On 01-16-20 22:47, Alessandro Trebbi wrote to All <=-

    Hello everybody!

    I have some probems with mystic nntp

    - when i'm not receiving poster email (it's relevant for my purposes,
    is there a way to create a functioning one given username and origin ?)
    - when i post messages, all messages are written in behalf of user i
    use for login (may i override this value? with a custom header?)
    - i have no way to recognize messages that i have postes (so that, they all are received again and i have duplicates); again, may i send a
    custome header that mystic will send me back ?

    I suspect there's no solutions for these issues. You are trying to use Mystic's NNTP server in a way it wasn't designed to be used, so the assumprions
    on which it was written aren't valid for your use case.

    or is there an alternative nntp server that may m bypass these problems
    ? i would like to synchronize my bbs message base with a web forum

    I don't know if you can do it with Mystic. You could try JAMNNTPd, but again you may run into design limitations. Only one way to find out though. :)


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  • From Oli@2:280/464.47 to Alessandro Trebbi on Fri Jan 17 14:38:27 2020

    or is there an alternative nntp server that may m bypass these
    problems ? i would like to synchronize my bbs message base with a web forum

    I it not clear to what exactly the problem is. You have a JAM message base and a web forum and somehow the web forum can synchronize with a NNTP server? Which web forum software is it?


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  • From Alessandro Trebbi@2:331/313 to Oli on Tue Jan 28 00:48:04 2020

    Hello Oli!

    17 Jan 20 14:38, you wrote to me:


    I it not clear to what exactly the problem is. You have a JAM message
    base and a web forum and somehow the web forum can synchronize with a
    NNTP server? Which web forum software is it?

    I'm using fudforum , there's an nntp.php script that synchronizes forum with a nntp server

    I'm trying to modify the script to bypass the problems

    the forum is here:
    https://fidonet.3bsoft.com

    actually, all messages imported are written by "Anonymous" and in the 1st line contain someting like "Originally posted by: ..."

    and if you write a new one, it gets duplicated (after a few minutes, the synchronization is made through a job)


    Alessandro


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  • From James Coyle@1:129/215 to Alessandro Trebbi on Mon Jan 27 19:55:30 2020
    I'm using fudforum , there's an nntp.php script that synchronizes forum with a nntp server

    I'm trying to modify the script to bypass the problems

    This is interesting. Let me know what issues you're having. The NNTP server in Mystic probably does need some work as not many people have really used it outside of some mobile phone apps to read.

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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Alessandro Trebbi on Tue Jan 28 13:07:00 2020
    On 01-28-20 00:48, Alessandro Trebbi wrote to Oli <=-

    I'm using fudforum , there's an nntp.php script that synchronizes forum with a nntp server

    I've played with FUDforum. Haven't tried integrating NNTP, only mailing lists,
    which it does quite well.

    I'm trying to modify the script to bypass the problems

    the forum is here:
    https://fidonet.3bsoft.com

    actually, all messages imported are written by "Anonymous" and in the
    1st line contain someting like "Originally posted by: ..."

    That's a configuration issue, from what I remember. You have a choice of either auto creating a new account for every unknown poster or not. If you do allow the account creation, messages coming in via NNTP will appear from the poster, otherwise they will appear as you describe.

    and if you write a new one, it gets duplicated (after a few minutes,
    the synchronization is made through a job)

    I had no issues with mailing lists (like Yahoo groups, etc), but no experience with NNTP.


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  • From Alessandro Trebbi@2:331/313 to Tony Langdon on Wed Jan 29 21:49:48 2020

    Hello Tony!

    28 Jan 20 13:07, you wrote to me:

    On 01-28-20 00:48, Alessandro Trebbi wrote to Oli <=-

    I'm using fudforum , there's an nntp.php script that synchronizes
    forum with a nntp server

    That's a configuration issue, from what I remember. You have a choice
    of either auto creating a new account for every unknown poster or not.
    If you do allow the account creation, messages coming in via NNTP will appear from the poster, otherwise they will appear as you describe.

    the problem is that i have not enough info to crete a new user ; i think hat only email is valid (with a user name, not a real email );
    i have to rebuild both, possibly using a valid fidonet email (some years ago there was a gateway to sens/receive mails from fidonet, is there anything like that nowadays?)

    Alessandro


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  • From Alessandro Trebbi@2:331/313 to James Coyle on Wed Jan 29 21:54:16 2020

    Hello James!

    27 Jan 20 19:55, you wrote to me:

    This is interesting. Let me know what issues you're having. The NNTP server in Mystic probably does need some work as not many people have really used it outside of some mobile phone apps to read.

    messages seems to have incomplete user info ;
    and then, i would like to add custome headers to mark messages (i thought to add a custom hader for real name / real email, so that nntp server may override he login user name );
    other custome headers (alrrady added by fudforum) shpuld help to identify messages that were written in the forum, but mystic does not use them and i do not receive headers back


    Alessandro


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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Alessandro Trebbi on Thu Jan 30 11:08:00 2020
    On 01-29-20 21:49, Alessandro Trebbi wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    the problem is that i have not enough info to crete a new user ; i
    think hat only email is valid (with a user name, not a real email );
    i have to rebuild both, possibly using a valid fidonet email (some
    years ago there was a gateway to sens/receive mails from fidonet, is
    there anything like that nowadays?)

    FUDforum will auto create the user - it's just an entry in the user database. That's what the setting I mentioned controls.


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