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
> messages. I'll check out cspan. Are there modules that connect to
> nntp server and put the data on stdout? Especially with some nifty
> controls on what gets downloaded would be nice.
The NNTP modules on CPAN can be used to dump data to stdout by writing
a simple program. Do not know what they are capable of off-hand.
Download them and RTFM. I'm guessing you will have to some programming
get the desired funtionality you want.
> > > It isn't clear to me if procmail is capable of handling a raw nntp
> > > message without somekind of conversion to one or another mail format.
> >
> > NNTP messages follow the same syntactical rules of mail messages
> > (RFC 822).
> Not sure what you mean by syntactical but they lack the leading 'From
> ' line and space at the end that mbox messages have.
You are confusing storage format with message format. The "From ..."
line is a message separator in UUCP style mailboxes, and is NOT part
of the actual message. I believe INN servers store messages in a
format similiar to MH: each post in a separate file in a directory.
MHonArc can handle either format.
> 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.
Doubt it. RTFM to make sure.
--ewh
