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System Administrator EMail Address

Multiple functions in RumorMill are implemented by EMailing information to the system administrator. For any of these functions to work, a valid EMail address must be supplied.

SMTP Host

To send EMail, RumorMill must know where to locate an SMTP server to relay EMail through. In addition, RumorMill will periodically check for EMail to be sent. This is especially useful when EMail gets queued because the SMTP server is unavailable for some reason.

POP Configuration

RumorMill can receive EMail and process that EMail to inject the EMail into newsgroups. The details of the POP server and account are specified in this section.

POP Host

Specify the POP server where RumorMill should retrieve EMail. This should not be your EMail account or some other user. Note: RumorMill will read and delete all EMail in this account each time it connects to the POP server.

POP Account

Specify the POP account that RumorMill should use.

POP Password

Specify the POP password that RumorMill should use.

Check for EMail

Specify how often RumorMill should check for new EMail. Making this number too small (perhaps less that 10 minutes) will add load to your POP server.

Add "Reply-to" from POP host and account

When RumorMill processes EMail and places it, checking this option will cause RumorMill to add a "Reply-to:" header to the article when it is added to the newsgroup. The reply-to header will be the specified POP host and POP account.

User Header to add to EMailed articles

Finally, the system administrator may specify a header to be inserted into outgoing EMail. In general, the user supplied header should start with "X-" if the header is not one of the EMail defined headers. However, if the user uses a standard header, such as "Subject:", then RumorMill will rename the existing "Subject:" header to "X-NNTP-Subject:" and insert the user defined "Subject:" header.

If the article about to be EMailed has the following headers:

    Subject: RumorMill Header Mapping
    Newsgroups: local.testing
and the User EMail Header is defined as follows:
    Subject: [^2] ^1
The resulting headers in the EMail sent are:
    Subject: [local.testing] RumorMill Header Mapping
    X-NNTP-Subject: RumorMill Header Mapping
    Newsgroups: local.testing
The following fields can be substituted into a User EMail Header:
^1 Previous header contents
^2 Newsgroup(s) for which this article had EMail exploders defined
^3 Host name of the machine running RumorMill

Setup EMail to Newsgroups Map

Use this link to configure how RumorMill should decide into which newsgroups EMail should be posted.