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  OSSP lmtp2nntp - Mail to News Gateway
  Version 1.2b1 (06-Feb-2003)

  BEWARE! THIS IS ALPHA CODE

  Use for evaluation. Functionality is mostly complete, see 00TODO.  Error
  handling and resource management needs some work. Documentation does not
  reflect changes and news for the v1.2 release.

  The 1.2 alpha versions have been tested in a production environment
  and successfully gatewayed some thousand messages. Memory leaked an
  average of 30 bytes per article. No functional bugs were found, no
  coredumps were seen.

  ABSTRACT

  The OSSP lmtp2nntp program is an LMTP service for use in conjunction
  with an MTA (like Sendmail), 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 queuing
  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.

  COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

  Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>
  Copyright (c) 2002-2003 The OSSP Project <http://www.ossp.org/>
  Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Cable & Wireless Germany <http://www.cw.com/de/>

  This file is part of OSSP lmtp2nntp, an LMTP speaking local
  mailer which forwards mails as Usenet news articles via NNTP.
  It can be found at http://www.ossp.org/pkg/tool/lmtp2nntp/.

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public  License
  as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
  2.0 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
  General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this file; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
  USA, or contact the OSSP project <ossp@ossp.org>.

  HOME AND DOCUMENTATION

  The documentation and latest release can be found on

  o http://www.ossp.org/pkg/tool/lmtp2nntp/
  o  ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/tool/lmtp2nntp/