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Bug 339624

Summary:	Connect Mailing List with Newsgroup
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Wim Jongman <wim.jongman>
Component:	MailingLists	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	bugs.eclipse.org, slewis
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Wim Jongman

2011-03-10 19:42:00 EST

ECF would like to use the Mailman mail<>news gateway to connect our mailing list with our newsgroup. If you are a principle "go" for this then here are the settings we would like to have. I believe the most invasive action is that we need a mailman cronjob but chances are this is already running.

Regards,

Wim Jongman 

Here are the options:

The hostname of the machine your news server is running on. 
  news.eclipse.org

The name of the Usenet group to gateway to and/or from. 
  org.eclipse.ecf (iirc)

Should new posts to the mailing list be sent to the newsgroup? 
  No

Should new posts to the newsgroup be sent to the mailing list? 
  Yes

The moderation policy of the newsgroup. 
 None

Prefix Subject: headers on postings gated to news? 
  Yes

Mass catch up
  No

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2011-03-14 16:37:34 EDT

Wim, we've tried this 'experiment' a few times in the past, and it has always failed.  Either the community not understanding why the mail and the news is the same, committers upset because they're seeing too much user chatter, or the seldom message from either nntp or mailman that didn't get propagated, which sends webmaster on a goose hunt.

From here, if both newsgroup and mailing list are intended to be the same, I'd suggest that, along with your user community, you simply pick one and delete the other -- either a mailing list or a Forum.

Comment 2 Wim Jongman

2011-03-15 05:24:36 EDT

Hi Denis,

I understand. We don't want to delete the group nor the list. Is it possible to get notified when a posting arrives in the group? Is there some event mechanism that we can hook into with our own e-mail?

Comment 3 Denis Roy

2011-03-15 09:53:53 EDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> Is it possible to get notified when a posting arrives in the group?

The Forum software (which is linked to nntp) has email notifications -- simply log into the forums with your Bugzilla account, go to the forum you wish to monitor and hit the Subscribe link in the top left corner.

Another alternative is to use the RDF feed from the forum.  There is a feed link at the bottom of each forum's thread list.

Comment 4 Wim Jongman

2011-03-15 15:58:35 EDT

That will do just fine. Thanks for your help.