Transfer Agent (MTA) like Sendmail or Postfix, providing a reliable real-time mail to news gateway. Input messages get their headers slightly reformatted to match Usenet news article format. The article is then posted or feeded into a remote NNTP service (like INN). Delivery must take place immediately or the transaction fails. OSSP lmtp2nntp relies on the queueing capabilities of the MTA in order to provide a fully reliable service. For this the program returns proper delivery status notification which indicates successful completed action, persistent transient failure or permanent failure.
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The OSSP lmtp2nntp program is an LMTP service for use in conjunction with a Mail
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Transfer Agent (MTA) like Sendmail or Postfix, providing a reliable real-time
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mail to news gateway. Input messages get their headers slightly reformatted to
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match Usenet news article format. The article is then posted or feeded into a
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remote NNTP service (like INN). Delivery must take place immediately or the
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transaction fails. OSSP lmtp2nntp relies on the queueing capabilities of the MTA
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in order to provide a fully reliable service. For this the program returns
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proper delivery status notification which indicates successful completed action,
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persistent transient failure or permanent failure.
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