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Mail2News Mini-Howto: Setting up mail2news

4. Setting up mail2news

Put the mail2news.pl script in a suitable location. I favour /usr/local/scripts, but the location is up to you.

You will need to edit script as follows:-

At the top of the script, make sure you are pointing at the local Perl binary
```
#!/usr/bin/perl
# point at the correct location of perl
```

I had problems with the three following lines. Commenting them out does not cause a problem.

( $version  ) = $] =~ /(\d+\.\d+).*\nPatch level/;
die "$program: requires at least version 3 of perl\n"
        if $version < 3;

Edit the following lines to point at the posting program (I use rnews) and you news host:-

# $inews = "/usr/bin/inews";
# $iopts = "-h -o \"mail2news gateway\"";
$inews = "/usr/bin/rnews";
$iopts = "";
$postinghost = "your.news.server";   # points at your news server

Make sure that the script is exectuable (mode 755).


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