
mail2news-0.0.3 
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mail2news is a program to convert email to news articles and post them
via the NNTP POST command to a news server. It reads an email from
standard input, converts it to news format (RFC 1036 and derived
documents) and posts it to a user defined NNTP server using the POST
command. If necessary mail2news can authenticate the user at the NNTP
server and/or use non-standard ports.

The mapping from email header to newsgroups name is based on regular
expression-news group pairs defined in the configuration file. An
example configuration file is provided with mail2news. mail2news
expects to find the configuration file either in ~/.mail2newsrc or in
/etc/mail2news.conf (in this order).

In case of failure mail2news tries to save the email, the converted
news article (if already present), and as much as possible an error
log to files mail, news, error, respectively, in a directory
/tmp/m2n-XXXXXX-err/.

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!!! This is an early alpha release. You are warned, the number of      !!!
!!! FIXME! comments is frightening. Use entirely at your own risk.     !!!
!!! It's also my excuse for not providing more documentation at this   !!!
!!! point. If you don't understand what's going on, or how to use it,  !!!
!!! don't!                                                             !!!
!!!                                                                    !!!
!!! "Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head,        !!!
!!! "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."                              !!!
!!!                       --- Terry Pratchett, Eric                    !!!
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Copyright
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mail2news is written and copyright by Joerg Dietrich
<joerg@dietrich.net>. It is available from
<http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dietrich/mail2news/>.

Modified by Irie Tetsuya. Copyright of the modification Irie Tetsuya
2005/2006.

mail2news.py is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
