Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!labrea!decwrl!pyramid!prls!philabs!ttidca!sa From: sa@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Alter) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: mail to news Message-ID: <1545@ttidca.TTI.COM> Date: 13 Dec 87 07:43:43 GMT References: <38fe15a9.4580@hi-csc.UUCP> Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica Lines: 17 Keywords: mail news Summary: Use an alias In article <38fe15a9.4580@hi-csc.UUCP> giebelhaus@hi-csc.UUCP (Timothy R. Giebelhaus) writes: >How does one get mail into news. For example, say I want to have a >group called honeywell.cad.parts which as all the mail sent to >cad-parts@hi-csc.uucp. Most mailers support aliases which can be programs or files as well as just people. Set up an alias which will direct your mail into the inews program like this: cad-parts: "|/usr/lib/news/inews -n honeywell.cad.parts -h" This way, people just mail postings to "cad-parts" using their favorite mail-interface, and the article appears in the newsgroup. -- Steve Alter ...!{csun,rdlvax,trwrb,psivax}!ttidca!alter or alter@tti.com Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica CA (213) 452-9191 x2541