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tinews.pl

NAME

tinews.pl - Post and sign an article via NNTP

SYNOPSIS

tinews.pl [OPTIONS] < input

DESCRIPTION

tinews.pl reads an article on STDIN, signs it via pgp(1) or gpg(1) and posts it to a newsserver.

If the article contains To:, Cc: or Bcc: headers and mail-actions are configured it will automatically add a ``Posted-And-Mailed: yes'' header to the article and send out the mail-copies.

OPTIONS

-a Approved | --approved Approved

Set the article header field Approved: to the given value.

-c Control | --control Control

Set the article header field Control: to the given value.

-d Distribution | --distribution Distribution

Set the article header field Distribution: to the given value.

-e Expires | --expires Expires

Set the article header field Expires: to the given value.

-f From | --from From

Set the article header field From: to the given value.

-n Newsgroups | --newsgroups Newsgroups

Set the article header field Newsgroups: to the given value.

-o Organization | --organization Organization

Set the article header field Organization: to the given value.

-p port | --port port

use "port" as NNTP-port

-r Reply-To | --replyto Reply-To

Set the article header field Reply-To: to the given value.

-t Subject | --subject Subject

Set the article header field Subject: to the given value.

-w Followup-To | --followupto Followup-To

Set the article header field Followup-To: to the given value.

-x Path | --path Path

Set the article header field Path: to the given value.

-H | --help

Show help-page.

-R | --no-control

Restricted mode, disallow control-messages.

-S | --no-signature

Do not append $HOME/.signature

-X | --no-sign

Do not sign the article.

-A -V -W

These options are accepted for compatibility reasons but ignored.

-h | --headers

These options are accepted for compatibility reasons but ignored.

-O | --no-organization

These options are accepted for compatibility reasons but ignored.

-D | -N | --debug

These options are accepted but do not have any functionality yet.

EXIT STATUS

The following exit values are returned:

 0

Successful completion.

!=0

An error occurred.

ENVIRONMENT

$NNTPSERVER

Set to override the NNTP server configured in the source.

$NNTPPORT

The NNTP TCP-port to post news to. This variable only needs to be set if the TCP-port is not 119 (the default). The '-p' command-line option overrides $NNTPPORT.

$PGPPASS

Set to override the passphrase configured in the source (used for pgp(1)-2.6.3).

$PGPPASSFILE

Passphrase file used for pgp(1) or gpg(1).

$SIGNER

Set to override the user-id for signing configured in the source. If you neither set $SIGNER nor configure it in the source the contents of the From:-field will be used.

$REPLYTO

Set the article header field Reply-To: to the return address specified by the variable if there isn't already a Reply-To: header in the article. The '-r' command-line option overrides $REPLYTO.

$ORGANIZATION

Set the article header field Organization: to the contents of the variable if there isn't already a Organization: header in the article. The '-o' command-line option overrides $ORGANIZATION.

$DISTRIBUTION

Set the article header field Distribution: to the contents of the variable if there isn't already a Distribution: header in the article. The '-d' command-line option overrides $DISTRIBUTION.

FILES

pgptmp.txt

Temporary file used to store the reformatted article

pgptmp.txt.asc

Temporary file used to store the reformatted and signed article

$PGPPASSFILE

The passphrase file to be used for pgp(1) or gpg(1).

$HOME/.signature

Signature-file which will be automatically included.

SECURITY

If you've configured or entered a password, even if the variable that contained that password has been erased, it may be possible for someone to find that password, in plaintext, in a core dump. In short, if serious security is an issue, don't use this script.

NOTES

tinews.pl is designed to be used with pgp(1)-2.6.3, pgp(1)-5 and gpg(1).

tinews.pl requires the following standard modules to be installed: Getopt::Long(3pm), Net::NNTP(3pm), Time::Local(3pm) and Term::Readline(3pm).

AUTHOR

Urs Janssen <urs@tin.org>, Marc Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de>

SEE ALSO

pgp(1), gpg(1), pgps(1), Getopt::Long(3pm), Net::NNTP(3pm), Time::Local(3pm), Term::Readline(3pm)