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<H2><A NAME="s3">3. Overview of the system</A></H2>
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<P>It is probably easiest to understand how this system works by tracking
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a message from the mailing list to the newsgroup and then a message
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posted to the local newsgroup (and gated to the mailing list) and see
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how they are handled.
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.1">3.1 Mail from the mailing list</A>
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<P>When mail from the mailing list arrives at the local machine, procmail
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figures out what newsgroup it belongs in, and pipes the incoming
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message to mail2news.
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<P>
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<P>The mail2news script processes the message, applying news headers
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and then uses rnews or inews to post the message to the newsgroup.
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<H2><A NAME="ss3.2">3.2 Messages posted to the local newsgroup</A>
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<P>The local newsgroup is set up as a moderated group, as this allows us
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to take advantage of the email capabilities of innd. Any messages
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posted to a moderated group are not immediately submitted to the
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group. Instead, messages are emailed to the moderator of the group.
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<P>By declaring the moderator of the local newsgroup to be mailing list
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address, all locally posted messages to the newsgroup are
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automatically mailed out to the mailing list by innd and only appear
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once they have been received back through mail2news which adds the
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necessary 'approved' line to the messages and are thus acceptable to
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innd for posting to the newsgroup.
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