News::Article - Object for handling Usenet articles in mail or news form.
Copyright 1997 by Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>.
All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
MODULES
News::Article
News::AutoReply
News::FormArticle
News::FormReply
STATUS
This release is considered reasonably stable, both in functionality
and interface.
INTRODUCTION
This module originated with the development of the software intended
to handle newsgroup creation for the (new) mod.* Usenet hierarchy.
The requirement to centralise, and fully automate, the process of
group creation and the detection of defunct groups led to a large
number of cases where the software would be required to read, parse,
forward, reply to, mail and post articles of various forms.
Therefore, this module allows for creating articles from scratch, or
reading them from various data sources; various header
manipulations, and posting via NNTP or mailing via a
sendmail-workalike.
Support is included for PGPMoose v1.1-compatible signatures, and
also for control-message signatures believed to be compatible with
current distributions of signcontrol and pgpverify.
FormArticle is a derivative, intended for the construction of news
articles (or mail messages) by substitutions into boilerplate text.
AutoReply and FormReply are additional (very simple) derivatives.
REQUIREMENTS
This probably won't work except on Unix or a very good imitation.
Net::Domain
Net::NNTP
PGP::Sign
(It would be nice to weaken these dependencies somewhat.)
Mailing articles requires a sendmail-workalike (normally
/usr/lib/sendmail or /usr/sbin/sendmail).
INSTALLATION
Review the "System Dependent Configuration" section near the
beginning of Article.pm. If it would fail to find a working sendmail
on your system, and you care, then fix it as necessary.
Then follow the standard installation procedure for Perl modules,
which is to type the following commands:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
You'll probably need to do the last as root. A testsuite (though not
an extensive one yet) is supplied.
THANKS
Thanks to Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> for comment and
significant contributions.
AUTHOR
Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>
AVAILABILITY
CPAN, or see http://www.erlenstar.demon.co.uk/perl
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