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These perl scripts add several useful URL protocols and/or extensions
thereof to chimera.
news.pl Allows reading of
news in several modes:
news://server/ List groups
news://server/group List articles in group
news://server/group/number Read Article by number
news://server/messageID Read Article by message ID
Articles are formatted with URLs converted to links,
including mailto and news URLs where possible.
The last two can also have
news posting or mail reply
forms created by appending:
?post To follow up
?post+include To follow up and quote
?mail To reply via email
?mail+include To reply via email
These forms call postto.pl and mailto.pl to do the
actual distribution.
postto.pl
mailto.pl These are nearly identical, save that mailto uses sendmail
while postto connects directly to the NNTP server.
When called with a GET command (usually anywhere but a form),
these scripts return an HTML form to post a new thread to a
newsgroup or mail a letter to an address. The URLs are:
postto:news.group
mailto:person@some.where
(Note that the latter can instead launch your favorite
mail program if you set the MAIL_CLIENT environment
variable ... the author uses "xterm -e pine")
When called with a POST command (as in the forms generated
by news.pl), the URL is:
postto://server
mailto://server
(Though in fact the server is disregarded by mailto)
The scripts expect four fields from the forms, HEAD, BODY,
SIG and SIGN. The first three are text fields, and the
fourth is a toggle indicating whether or not to append the
SIG text to the message.
Failed POST requests are stored in dead.letter or dead.article
as appropriate.
finger.pl Just here for giggles. The URL is:
finger:person@some.where
show.pl Debugging tool. Useful to see if the request you are
sending is what you think it is.
The following lines need to be added to your protocol file (or to your
personal ~/.chimera_protocol):
news /usr/lib/X11/chimera/nntp.pl
mailto /usr/lib/X11/chimera/mailto.pl
postto /usr/lib/X11/chimera/postto.pl
finger /usr/lib/X11/chimera/finger.pl
show /usr/lib/X11/chimera/show.pl
(or wherever you put them)
They all assume perl is in /usr/bin. Sendmail is assumed to be in /usr/lib.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
correct the default nntp server in news.pl and postto.pl
It won't accept calls from off campus anyway, so don't waste our bandwidth
Variables Available to Customize
the news.pl, mailto.pl and postto.pl set
==========================================
MAIL_CLIENT Preferred mailto:address client (I use xterm -e pine)
USER Login Name
NAME Full Name
HOME Home Directory
HOSTNAME Name of current machine
NNTPSERVER Default NNTP Server
QUOTECHAR Leading Character(s) to indicate quoted text
NEWSORG Organization
ORGANIZATION Organization, if NEWSORG unset
SIGNATURE Location of .signature file, or text of signature
REPLYTO Address to direct replies to
The following allow customization of the headers and attribution text a la
trn:
NEWSHEADER Format of Header on News Articles
ATTRIB Leading line for quotations in news
MAILHEADER Format of Header on Mail replies
YOUSAID Leading line for quotations in Mail
The above four can contain the following special characters, which are
translated as follows (matches trn header definitions):
%C Current Newsgoup (in dot form)
%n Newsgroups list of current article
%s Subject of Article, stripped of all Re:'s
%R Reference list including current article
%o Organization Name
%N Full Name
%L Login
%H Current machine's full name
%f Reply-To or From line of current article
%i Message-ID of current article, <>'s guaranteed
Enjoy! Michael Kellen