NEWSMAIL(8)               UNIX System V(22 June 1989)               NEWSMAIL(8)


NAME
      mailnews, sendnews - send unbatched news as mail
      recenews, recpnews - receive mailed news
      bdecode - decode encoded mailed news

SYNOPSIS
      /usr/dell/cnews/newsbin/relay/mailnews address ...
      /usr/dell/cnews/newsbin/relay/sendnews address ...
      /usr/dell/cnews/newsbin/input/recenews
      /usr/dell/cnews/newsbin/input/recpnews
      /usr/dell/cnews/newsbin/input/bdecode [ file ]

DESCRIPTION
      Sometimes it is necessary to transmit news via mail, to deal with network
      connections that have no notion of arbitrary file transfer or non-mail
      traffic.  These programs handle unbatched transmission and batched or
      unbatched reception.  (Batched transmission is handled by the batching
      subsystem; see newsbatch(8).)

      Mailnews accepts news from its standard input, encodes it using bencode
      (see bencode(1) or newsbatch(8)) to ensure that stupid mailers do not
      corrupt it, and mails it to the addresses.

      Sendnews does likewise, but uses an inferior method of mailer protection
      (prepending `N' to each line) which does not protect against all forms of
      mailer brain-damage.  It is provided for backward compatibility; its use
      is discouraged.

      Mailnews and sendnews are located in the default path of transmission
      commands in the sys file (see news(5)) so that they can be used from
      there without giving a full pathname.

      Recenews receives encoded news sent by mailnews or a batcher, decodes it,
      and feeds it to rnews (see rnews(8)).  Recpnews does likewise for mail
      protected with `N'.  Normally one should arrange that mail arriving at
      the mailbox ``enews'' is sent to recenews and likewise for ``rnews'' (the
      name is historical, for compatibility again) and recpnews.

      Bdecode passes standard input, or the file if there is one, to standard
      output, decoding the bencode encoding and stripping off debris prepended
      and appended by mailers.

SEE ALSO
      bencode(1), mail(1), news(5), newsbatch(8), rnews(8)

HISTORY
      Written at U of Toronto by Henry Spencer, with contributions by Geoff
      Collyer.  Bdecode written at University of Waterloo by Reg Quinton and
      Ken Lalonde.





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