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#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use lib '/usr/share/perl5'; use INN::Config;

# mailpost - Yet another mail-to-news filter
#
# $Id: mailpost.in 10076 2016-10-08 20:37:36Z iulius $
#
# 21feb00 [added "lc" to duplicate header fixer stmt to make it case-insensitive]
# doka 11may99 [fixed duplicate headers problem]
# brister 19oct98 [cleaned up somewhat for Perl v. 5. and made a little more robust]
# vixie 29jan95 [RCS'd]
# vixie 15jun93 [added -m]
# vixie 30jun92 [added -a and -d]
# vixie 17jun92 [attempt simple-minded fixup to $path]
# vixie 14jun92 [original]

use Getopt::Std;
use IPC::Open3;
use IO::Select;
use POSIX qw(setsid);
use Sys::Hostname;
use INN::Utils::Shlock;
use strict;

my $debugging = 0 ;
my $tmpfile ;
my $tmpfile2 ;
my $msg ;

END {
    unlink ($tmpfile) if $tmpfile;              # in case we die()
    unlink ($tmpfile2) if $tmpfile2;            # in case we die()

    # In case we bail out, typically by calling mailArtAndDie(), while
    # holding a lock.
    INN::Utils::Shlock::releaselocks();
}

my $usage = $0 ;
$usage =~ s!.*/!! ;
my $prog = $usage ;

my $use_syslog = 0;

eval { require Sys::Syslog; import Sys::Syslog; $use_syslog = 1; };

if ($use_syslog) {
    if ($Sys::Syslog::VERSION lt 0.15) {
        eval "sub Sys::Syslog::_PATH_LOG { '/dev/log' }" if $^O eq 'dec_osf';
        Sys::Syslog::setlogsock('unix') if $^O =~ /linux|dec_osf|freebsd|darwin/;
    }
    openlog($prog, 'pid', $INN::Config::syslog_facility);
}

$usage .= "[ -h ][ -n ][ -r addr ][ -f addr ][ -a approved ][ -d distribution ]" .
    "[ -m mailing-list ][ -b database ][ -o output-path ][ -c wait-time ]" .
    "[ -x header[:header...] ][ -p port ][ -t tempdir ] newsgroups" ;

use vars qw($opt_r $opt_f $opt_a $opt_d $opt_m $opt_b $opt_n $opt_o $opt_h $opt_c $opt_x $opt_p $opt_t) ;
getopts("hr:f:a:d:m:b:no:c:x:p:t:") || die "usage: $usage\n" ;
die "usage: $usage\n" if $opt_h ;

#
# $Submit is a program which takes no arguments and whose stdin is supposed
# to be a news article (without the #!rnews header but with the news hdr).
#

my $Sendmail = $INN::Config::mta ;
my $Submit = $INN::Config::inews . " -S -h" . ($opt_p ? " -p $opt_p" : '');
my $Maintainer = $INN::Config::newsmaster || "usenet" ;
my $WhereTo = $opt_o || $Submit ;
my $Mailname = $INN::Config::fromhost || hostname ;

my $Databasedir = $opt_b || $INN::Config::pathdb;
die "Database path $Databasedir is not a directory\n" unless -d $Databasedir;
die "Database directory $Databasedir is not writable\n" unless -w $Databasedir;
my $Database = $Databasedir . "/mailpost-msgid" ;

# Can't always use $INN::Config::pathtmp as we're usually not running as news.
my $Tmpdir = $opt_t || (-w $INN::Config::pathtmp ? $INN::Config::pathtmp : "/var/tmp");
die "Path $Tmpdir is not a directory\n" unless -d $Tmpdir;
die "Directory $Tmpdir is not writable\n" unless -w $Tmpdir;

if ($debugging || $opt_n) {
    $Sendmail = "cat" ;
    $WhereTo = "cat" ;
}

#
# Our command-line argument(s) are the list of newsgroups to post to.
#
# There may be a "-r sender" or "-f sender" which becomes the $path
# (which is in turn overridden below by various optional headers).
#
# -d (distribution) and -a (approved) are also supported to supply
# or override the mail headers by those names.
#

my $path = 'nobody';
my $newsgroups = undef;
my $approved = undef;
my $distribution = undef;
my $mailing_list = undef;
my $references = undef;
my @errorText = ();

if ($opt_r || $opt_f) {
    $path = $opt_r || $opt_f ;
    push @errorText, "((path: $path))\n" ;
}

if ($opt_a) {
    $approved = &fix_sender_addr($opt_a);
    push @errorText, "((approved: $approved))\n";
}

if ($opt_d) {
    $distribution = $opt_d ;
    push @errorText, "((distribution: $distribution))\n";
}

if ($opt_m) {
    $mailing_list = "<" . $opt_m . "> /dev/null";
    push @errorText, "((mailing_list: $mailing_list))\n";
}

my $exclude = 'Organization|Distribution';
if ($opt_x) {
    $exclude .= '|' . join('|', split(/:/, $opt_x));
}

$newsgroups = join ",", @ARGV ;

die "usage:  $0 newsgroup [newsgroup ...]\n" unless $newsgroups;


#
# Do the header.  Our input is a mail message, with or without the From.
#

#$message_id = sprintf("<mailpost.%d.%d@%s>", time, $$, $Hostname);
my $real_news_hdrs = '';
my $weird_mail_hdrs = '';
my $fromHdr = "MAILPOST-UNKNOWN-FROM" ;
my $dateHdr= "MAILPOST-UNKNOWN-DATE" ;
my $msgIdHdr = "MAILPOST-UNKNOWN-MESSAGE-ID" ;
my $from = undef;
my $date = undef;
my $hdr = undef;
my $txt = undef;
my $message_id ;
my $subject = "(NONE)";

$_ = <STDIN>;
if (!$_) {
    if ( $debugging || -t STDERR ) {
	die "empty input" ;
    } else {
	syslog("err", "empty input") if ($use_syslog);
	exit (0) ;
    }
}

# Remove (CR)LF at the end of each line.
s/\r?\n$//;

my $line = undef;
if (/^From\s+([^\s]+)\s+/) {
    $path = $1;
    push @errorText, "((path: $path))\n";
    $_ = $';
    if (/ remote from /) {
	$path = $' . '!' . $path;
	$_ = $`;
    }
} else {
    $line = $_;
}

for (;;) {
    last if defined($line) && ($line =~ /^$/) ;

    $_ = <STDIN> ;
    last unless defined $_ ;
    # Remove (CR)LF at the end of each line.
    s/\r?\n$//;

    # Gather up a single header with possible continuation lines into $line.
    if (/^\s+/) {
	if (! $line) {
	    $msg = "First line with leading whitespace!" ;
            if ($use_syslog) {
                syslog("err", $msg) unless -t STDERR;
            }
	    die "$msg\n" ;
	}

	$line .= "\n" . $_ ;
	next ;
    }

    # Add a space after the colon following a header name, if not present.
    s/:/: / if ($_ !~ /^[^:]+: /);

    # On the first header, $line will be undefined.
    ($_, $line) = ($line, $_) ; # Swap $line and $_.

    last if defined($_) && /^$/;
    next unless defined($_);     # Only on first header will this happen.

    push @errorText, "($_)\n";

    next if /^Approved:\s/sio && defined($approved);
    next if /^Distribution:\s/sio && defined($distribution);

    if (/^($exclude):\s*/sio) {
	$real_news_hdrs .= "$_\n";
	next;
    }

    if (/^Subject:\s*/sio) {
	$subject = $';
	next;
    }

    if (/^Message-ID:\s*/sio) {
	$message_id = $';
	next;
    }

    if (/^Mailing-List:\s*/sio) {
	$mailing_list = $';
	next;
    }

    if (/^(Sender|Approved):\s*/sio) {
	$real_news_hdrs .= "$&" . fix_sender_addr($') . "\n";
	next;
    }

    if (/^Return-Path:\s*/sio) {
	$path = $';
	$path = $1 if ($path =~ /\<([^\>]*)\>/);
	push @errorText, "((path: $path))\n";
	next;
    }

    if (/^Date:\s*/sio) {
	$date = $';
	next;
    }

    if (/^From:\s*/sio) {
	$from = &fix_sender_addr($');
	next;
    }

    if (/^References:\s*/sio) {
        $references = $';

        # 986 = 998 (maximum per RFC 5536) - length("References: ")
        if (length($references) > 985) {
            my @refarray = ( $references =~ /(<.*?>)/g );
            # Keep only the first and the last two message-IDs, per RFC 5537.
            #
            # Remove the header in case we do not have at least 3 message-IDs
            # because it then probably means that the header is broken, or
            # contains CFWS that we do not deal with.
            if (scalar(@refarray) > 2) {
                my $last_mid = pop(@refarray);
                $references = shift(@refarray) . ' ' . pop(@refarray) . ' ' . $last_mid;
            } else {
                $references = undef;
            }
        }
        next;
    }

    if (!defined($references) && /^In-Reply-To:[^\<]*\<([^\>]+)\>/sio) {
	$references = "<$1>";
	# FALLTHROUGH
    }

    if (/^(MIME|Content)-[^:]+:\s*/sio) {
	$real_news_hdrs .= $_ . "\n" ;
	next ;
    }

    # Strip out news X-Trace: and X-Complaints-To: headers since otherwise posting
    # may fail.  Other trace headers will be renamed to add 'X-' so we don't have
    # to worry about them.
    if (/^X-(Trace|Complaints-To):\s*/sio) {
        next ;
    }

    # Random unknown header.  Prepend 'X-' if it is not already there.
    $_ = "X-$_" unless /^X-/sio ;
    $weird_mail_hdrs .= "$_\n";
}


$msgIdHdr = $message_id if $message_id ;
$fromHdr = $from if $from ;
$dateHdr = $date if $date ;

if ($path !~ /\!/) {
    $path = "$'!$`" if ($path =~ /\@/);
}

$real_news_hdrs .= "Subject: ${subject}\n";
$real_news_hdrs .= "Message-ID: ${msgIdHdr}\n"       if defined($message_id);
$real_news_hdrs .= "Mailing-List: ${mailing_list}\n" if defined($mailing_list);
$real_news_hdrs .= "Distribution: ${distribution}\n" if defined($distribution);
$real_news_hdrs .= "Approved: ${approved}\n"         if defined($approved);
$real_news_hdrs .= "References: ${references}\n"     if defined($references);

# Remove duplicate headers.
my %headers = ();
$real_news_hdrs =~ s/((.*?:) .*?($|\n)([ \t]+.*?($|\n))*)/$headers{lc$2}++?"":"$1"/ges;

# inews writes error messages to stdout.  We want to capture those and mail
# them back to the newsmaster.  Trying to write and read from a subprocess is
# ugly and prone to deadlock, so we use a temp file.
$tmpfile = sprintf "%s/mailpost.%d.%d", $Tmpdir, time, $$ ;

if (!open TMPFILE,">$tmpfile") {
    $msg = "can't open temp file ($tmpfile): $!" ;
    $tmpfile = undef ;
    if ($use_syslog) {
        syslog("err", "$msg") unless $debugging || -t STDERR;
    }
    open(TMPFILE, "|" . sprintf ($Sendmail, $Maintainer)) ||
	die "die(no tmpfile): sendmail: $!\n" ;
    print TMPFILE <<"EOF";
To: $Maintainer
Subject: mailpost failure ($newsgroups):  $msg

-------- Article Contents

EOF
}

print TMPFILE <<"EOF";
Path: ${path}
From: ${fromHdr}
Newsgroups: ${newsgroups}
${real_news_hdrs}Date: ${dateHdr}
${weird_mail_hdrs}
EOF

my $rest = '';
$rest .= $_ while (<STDIN>);
$rest =~ s/\n*$/\n/g;		# Remove trailing \n except very last.

print TMPFILE $rest;
close TMPFILE ;

if ( ! $tmpfile ) {
    # We had to bail and mail the article to the admin.
    print STDERR "The creation of the temporary file $tmpfile failed.\n" if -t STDERR;
    exit(1);
}


##
## We've got the article in a temp file and now we validate some of the
## data we found and update our Message-ID database.
##

mailArtAndDie ("no From: found") unless $from;
mailArtAndDie ("no Message-ID: found") unless $message_id;
mailArtAndDie ("Malformed Message-ID ($message_id)")
    if ($message_id !~ /\<(\S+)\@(\S+)\>/);


# Update (with locking) our Message-ID database.  This is used to make sure we
# don't loop our own gatewayed articles back through the mailing list.

my ($lhs, $rhs) = ($1, $2);	# Of message_id matched above.
$rhs =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/;

$message_id = "${lhs}\@${rhs}";

push @errorText, "(TAS message-ID database for $message_id)\n";

my $lockfile = sprintf("%s.lock", $Database);

# Acquire a lock.
INN::Utils::Shlock::lock($lockfile, 5) or mailArtAndDie ("cannot create lockfile $lockfile");

my %DATABASE ;
dbmopen(%DATABASE, $Database, 0666) || mailArtAndDie ("can't dbmopen $Database: $!");

if (defined $DATABASE{$message_id}) {

  if (!$opt_c) {
    syslog("err", "Duplicate article <$message_id>.") if $use_syslog;
    print STDERR "Duplicate article <$message_id>.\n" if -t STDERR;
    exit(1);
  }

## crosspost -c
  $newsgroups = &append_newsgroups($DATABASE{$message_id}, $newsgroups) ;
  syslog("err", "crosspost $newsgroups") if $debugging && $use_syslog;
}

#$DATABASE{$message_id} = sprintf "%d.%s", time, 'mailpost' ;
$DATABASE{$message_id} = $newsgroups ;

mailArtAndDie ("TAS didn't set $message_id") unless defined $DATABASE{$message_id};

dbmclose(%DATABASE) || mailArtAndDie ("can't dbmclose $Database: $!") ;

# Unlock.
INN::Utils::Shlock::unlock($lockfile) or mailArtAndDie ("cannot unlock $lockfile");

## For crosspost.

if ($opt_c) {
  my $pid = fork();
  if (!defined($pid)) {
    undef $tmpfile;  # Don't unlink $tmpfile.
    print STDERR "An error occurred during the fork.\n" if -t STDERR;
    exit(1);
  }
  if ($pid != 0) { # Parent.
    undef $tmpfile;  # Don't unlink $tmpfile.
    exit(0);
  }
  close STDIN;
  close STDOUT;
  close STDERR;
  setsid();
  open (STDIN, "</dev/zero");
  open (STDOUT, ">/dev/null");
  open (STDERR, ">&STDOUT");

  sleep $opt_c ;

  # Acquire a lock.
  INN::Utils::Shlock::lock($lockfile, 5) or mailArtAndDie ("cannot create lockfile $lockfile");

  my $umask_bak = umask();
  umask(000);
  dbmopen(%DATABASE, $Database, 0666) || mailArtAndDie ("can't dbmopen $Database: $!");
  umask($umask_bak);

  my $dup = undef ;
  syslog("err", "check   " . $DATABASE{$message_id} . " :  $newsgroups") if $debugging && $use_syslog;
  $dup = 1 if ($DATABASE{$message_id} ne $newsgroups) ;

  dbmclose(%DATABASE) || mailArtAndDie ("can't dbmclose $Database: $!") ;

  # Unlock.
  INN::Utils::Shlock::unlock($lockfile) or mailArtAndDie ("cannot unlock $lockfile");

  if (defined($dup)) {
    syslog("err", "mismatch $newsgroups") if $debugging && $use_syslog;
    exit(1);
  }

  # Replace Newsgroups:.
  open(TMPFILE, "$tmpfile") || mailArtAndDie ("can't open temp file ($tmpfile): $!") ;
  $tmpfile2 = sprintf "%s/mailpost-crosspost.%d.%d", $Tmpdir, time, $$ ;
    if ( !open TMPFILE2, ">$tmpfile2") {
    $msg = "can't open temp file ($tmpfile2): $!" ;
    $tmpfile2 = undef ;
    die $msg ;
  }
    for (;;) {
    $_ = <TMPFILE> ;
    # Remove (CR)LF at the end of each line.
    s/\r?\n$//;
    last if defined($_) && /^$/ ;

    if (/^Newsgroups:\s*/sio) {
      printf TMPFILE2 "Newsgroups: %s\n", $newsgroups ;
      next ;
    }
    print TMPFILE2 "$_\n" ;
  }
  printf TMPFILE2 "\n" ;

  my $rest = '';
  $rest .= $_ while (<TMPFILE>);
  $rest =~ s/\n*$/\n/g;		# Remove trailing \n except very last.

  print TMPFILE2 $rest;
  close TMPFILE2 ;
  close TMPFILE ;
  rename($tmpfile2, $tmpfile) || mailArtAndDie ("can't rename $tmpfile2 $tmpfile: $!") ;
  $tmpfile2 = undef ;

}

if (!open INEWS, "$WhereTo < $tmpfile 2>&1 |") {
    mailArtAndDie ("can't start $WhereTo: $!") ;
}

my @inews = <INEWS> ;
close INEWS ;
my $status = $? ;

if (@inews) {
    chomp @inews ;
    mailArtAndDie ("inews failed: @inews") ;
}

unlink $tmpfile ;

exit $status;

sub mailArtAndDie {
    my ($msg) = @_ ;
    
    syslog("err", "$msg") if $use_syslog;
    print STDERR $msg,"\n" if -t STDERR ;
    
    open(SENDMAIL, "|" . sprintf ($Sendmail,$Maintainer)) ||
	die "die($msg): sendmail: $!\n" ;
    print SENDMAIL <<"EOF" ;
To: $Maintainer
Subject: mailpost failure ($newsgroups)

$msg

EOF

    if ($tmpfile && -f $tmpfile) {
	print SENDMAIL "\n-------- Article Contents\n\n" ;
	open(FILE, "<$tmpfile") || die "open($tmpfile): $!\n" ;
	print SENDMAIL while <FILE> ;
	close FILE ;
    } else {
	print STDERR "No article left to send back.\n" if -t STDERR;
    }
    close SENDMAIL ;
    
#    unlink $tmpfile ;

    # We use here a non-zero exit.  It should normally not cause problems.
    exit(1);
}


#
# Take RFC-5322-format name (either "comment <addr> comment" or "addr (comment)")
# and return in always-qualified RFC-5321-format ("addr (comment)").
#
sub fix_sender_addr {
    my ($address) = @_;
    my ($lcomment, $addr, $rcomment, $comment);
    local ($',$`,$_) ;

    if ($address =~ /\<([^\>]*)\>/) {
	($lcomment, $addr, $rcomment) = (&dltb($`), &dltb($1), &dltb($'));
    } elsif ($address =~ /\(([^\)]*)\)/) {
	($lcomment, $addr, $rcomment) = ('', &dltb($`.$'), &dltb($1));
    } else {
	($lcomment, $addr, $rcomment) = ('', &dltb($address), '');
    }
    
    #print STDERR "fix_sender_addr($address) == ($lcomment, $addr, $rcomment)\n";
    
    $addr .= "\@$Mailname" unless ($addr =~ /\@/);
    
    if ($lcomment && $rcomment) {
	$comment = $lcomment . ' ' . $rcomment;
    } else {
	$comment = $lcomment . $rcomment;
    }
    
    $_ = $addr;
    $_ .= " ($comment)" if $comment;
    
    #print STDERR "\t-> $_\n";
    
    return $_;
}

#
# Delete leading and trailing blanks.
#

sub dltb {
    my ($str) = @_;
    
    $str =~ s/^\s+//o;
    $str =~ s/\s+$//o;
    
    return $str;
}

sub append_newsgroups ($$) {
  my (@orig) = split(/,/,$_[0]) ;
  my (@new) = split(/,/,$_[1]) ;
  my $newsgroup ;

  foreach $newsgroup (@new) {
    if ( !grep($_ eq $newsgroup,@orig)) {
      push @orig, $newsgroup ;
    } else {
#      mailArtAndDie ("Duplicate Newsgroups: $newsgroup") ;
    }
  }
  return join ",", @orig ;

}

=head1 NAME

mailpost - Feed an e-mail message into a newsgroup

=head1 SYNOPSIS

B<mailpost> [B<-hn>] [B<-a> I<addr>] [B<-b> I<database>] [B<-c> I<wait-time>]
[B<-d> I<distribution>] [B<-f> I<addr>] [B<-m> I<mailing-list>]
[B<-o> I<output-command>] [B<-p> I<port>] [B<-r> I<addr>] [B<-t> I<tempdir>]
[B<-x> I<header>[B<:>I<header>...]] I<newsgroups>

=head1 DESCRIPTION

The B<mailpost> program reads a properly formatted e-mail message from stdin
and feeds it to B<inews> for posting to a news server.  I<newsgroups> is a
whitespace-separated list of group names to which to post the article
(at least one newsgroup must be specified).

Before feeding the article to B<inews>, it checks that the article has not
been seen before, and it changes some headers (cleans up some address
headers, removes X-Trace: and X-Complaints-To:, and puts C<X-> in front
of unknown headers).

If the article has been seen before (B<mailpost> records the Message-ID of
each article it handles), then the article will be dropped with a non-zero
error status.  Other errors will cause the article to be mailed to the
newsmaster (selected at configure time and defaulting to C<usenet>).

Normally, B<mailpost> is run by sendmail(8) via an alias entry:

    local-mail-wreck-bikes: "|<pathbin in inn.conf>/mailpost
        -b /var/tmp -t /var/tmp -d local local.mail.rec.bicycles.racing"

The B<-b> and B<-t> flags are useful to change the directories used by
B<mailpost> by default.  As a matter of fact, though it is recommended to
run B<mailpost> as the news user, it is as often as not run as another
user, for instance the mail user.  Therefore, you should make sure to
create and set to be writable by the user that B<mailpost> runs as the
directories where to put the database and the temporary files.

Instead of F</var/tmp>, the mail spool directory can be specified,
or any other directory where the B<mailpost> process has write access.

=head1 OPTIONS

=over 4

=item B<-a> I<addr>

If the B<-a> flag is used, the value given is added to the article as
an Approved: header.

=item B<-b> I<database>

If the B<-b> flag is used, then it defines the location of the
persistent database used to store the Message-IDs of articles sent on.
This is to prevent articles looping around if a news-to-mail gateway
sends them back here.  This option may be required if the B<mailpost>
process does not have write access to the news database directory.
The default value is I<pathdb> as set in F<inn.conf>.

=item B<-c> I<wait-time>

The B<-c> flag indicates a length of time to sleep before posting.  If
duplicate messages are received in this interval (by any instance of
B<mailpost> using the same database), the article is only posted once, but
with Newsgroups: header modified to crosspost the article to all indicated
groups.  The units for I<wait-time> are seconds; a reasonable value may be
anywhere from tens to hundreds of seconds, or even higher, depending on how
long mail can be delayed on its way to your system.

=item B<-d> I<distribution>

If the B<-d> flag is used, the value given is added to the article as a
Distribution: header.

=item B<-f> I<addr>

The B<-f> flag is a synonym for the B<-r> flag.

=item B<-h>

Print usage information and exit.

=item B<-m> I<mailing-list>

If the B<-m> flag is used, the value given is added to the article in
a Mailing-List: header, if such a header doesn't already exist.

=item B<-n>

If the B<-n> flag is used, neither an article is posted nor a mail is sent
in case an error occurs.  Everything is written to the standard output.

=item B<-o> I<output-command>

Specifies the program to which the resulting article processed by B<mailpost>
should be sent.  For debugging purpose, C<-o cat> can be used.  The default
value is C<inews -S -h>.

=item B<-p> I<port>

Specifies the port on which B<nnrpd> is listening, used for article posting.
If given, B<-p> is passed along to B<inews>.

=item B<-r> I<addr>

A heuristic is used to determine a reasonable value for the Path: header.
The B<-r> flag indicates what to use if no other value can be determined.

=item B<-t> I<tempdir>

If the B<-t> flag is used, then it defines the location of the
directory to use to temporarily store error messages that are sent to
the newsmaster.  This option may be required if the default value refers
to a path that does not exist or the B<mailpost> process does not have
write access to.  Two paths are tried by default:  I<pathtmp> as set
in F<inn.conf>, and then F</var/tmp> if I<pathtmp> is not writable.

=item B<-x> I<header>[B<:>I<header>...]

A colon-separated list of additional headers which should be treated as
known headers; these headers will be passed through to B<inews> without
having C<X-> prepended.

Known headers are:

    Approved
    Content-*
    Date
    Distribution
    From
    Mailing-List
    Message-ID
    MIME-*
    References
    Return-Path
    Sender
    Subject

=back

=head1 FILES

=over 4

=item I<pathbin>/mailpost

The Perl script itself used to feed an e-mail message to a newsgroup.

=item I<pathdb>/mailpost-msgid.dir and I<pathdb>/mailpost-msgid.pag

The default database files which record previously seen Message-IDs.

=back

=head1 HISTORY

Written by Paul Vixie long ago and then hacked up by James Brister for
INN integration.

$Id: mailpost.in 10076 2016-10-08 20:37:36Z iulius $

=head1 SEE ALSO

active(5), inews(1), inn.conf(5), nnrpd(8), uwildmat(3).

=cut