web2mail2news

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This script lets you post messages to usenet through your web browser. No more registering for lame sites like Deja or MailAndNews - just do it yourself with web2mail2news. This script is not a newsreader, it supports posting only.

Requirements:

• PHP 4.0 or newer to support "echo <<<EOT" syntax
• sendmail must be installed and active on your server

Documentation

Here's a first - this one requires no configuration! Just upload the script in ascii mode. Access it via your web browser, fill out the resulting form, and hit the Post button. Your post is sent to zedz.net's mail2news gateway for processing. Your message will be posted to whatever newsgroups you specified, assuming they're supported by the mail2news gateway.

Important! The From field you fill out must contain a valid From header as specified by RFC1036. You can use an email address, a name followed by an email address in angle brackets, or an email address followed by a name in parentheses. As examples, the following would all be OK:

freebeer@myown.com
Bob Dole <bobqdole@hotmail.com>
jack_kemp@dole96.com (Jack Kemp)

If you type any other address format into the From field, it's unlikely that your post will show up.

New in this release: web2mail2news automatically generates a random, invalid Message-ID header every time you make a post. This means that people will not be able to track your post back to you via the Message-ID... So if you use a bogus From: address, your post will essentially be anonymous. You should make some test posts to alt.test first, to make sure the headers are clean. If you don't like this feature, you can comment out the lines of code that make it happen.

All posts made through this script will contain an "X-No-Archive: Yes" header, to prevent them from being collected by Deja and friends.