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gnus: Mail-To-News Gateways

 
 6.6.4 Mail-To-News Gateways
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 If your local ‘nntp’ server doesn’t allow posting, for some reason or
 other, you can post using one of the numerous mail-to-news gateways.
 The ‘nngateway’ back end provides the interface.
 
    Note that you can’t read anything from this back end—it can only be
 used to post with.
 
    Server variables:
 
 ‘nngateway-address’
      This is the address of the mail-to-news gateway.
 
 ‘nngateway-header-transformation’
      News headers often have to be transformed in some odd way or other
      for the mail-to-news gateway to accept it.  This variable says what
      transformation should be called, and defaults to
      ‘nngateway-simple-header-transformation’.  The function is called
      narrowed to the headers to be transformed and with one
      parameter—the gateway address.
 
      This default function just inserts a new ‘To’ header based on the
      ‘Newsgroups’ header and the gateway address.  For instance, an
      article with this ‘Newsgroups’ header:
 
           Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs
 
      will get this ‘To’ header inserted:
 
           To: alt-religion-emacs@GATEWAY
 
      The following pre-defined functions exist:
 
      ‘nngateway-simple-header-transformation’
           Creates a ‘To’ header that looks like
           NEWSGROUP@‘nngateway-address’.
 
      ‘nngateway-mail2news-header-transformation’
           Creates a ‘To’ header that looks like ‘nngateway-address’.
 
    Here’s an example:
 
      (setq gnus-post-method
            '(nngateway
              "mail2news@replay.com"
              (nngateway-header-transformation
               nngateway-mail2news-header-transformation)))
 
    So, to use this, simply say something like:
 
      (setq gnus-post-method '(nngateway "GATEWAY.ADDRESS"))
 

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