NEWSSEND

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 28 January 1986
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NAME

newssend - feed news into mail system

SYNOPSIS

newssend [ -r replyto ] faketo realto [ more-realto's ]

DESCRIPTION

Newssend is responsible for feeding USENET news articles into the Internet mail system, typically to Internet mailing lists. It strips out many of the USENET header lines that are not necessary or wanted on the Internet.

The values of the submit options (including the input channel name) and the header lines to be deleted are hardcoded in the program but may want to be tailored on a per-site basis, particularly the channel value. The following arguments are used:

-r replyto: This specifies the return address (replyto) to be used for this message. Depending on the submit option used by newssend, this may be ignored.
faketo: Since most USENET articles lack a ``To:'' field, the argument is used to generate a ``To:'' field for the message. faketo should point to an alias that which feeds the message back into the news system.
realto ...: This is the actual address(es) that the article should be mailed to. This is typically something like ``info-something-outbound''.

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