| NNTP Import Problems [message #166898] |
Fri, 23 March 2012 17:48  |
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FUDforum undoubtedly has the best NNTP integration of any forum software out there, and I'm still thoroughly amazed and extremely impressed by how well this works. This is fantastic!
That said, I have a couple of problems with NNTP importing, which may or may not be easily fixable, I'm not sure. The first is very minor, and doesn't really affect me, but the second is bad, and is effectively preventing any NNTP importing working for me at the moment.
1) The minor problem: FUDforum relies on articles appearing in chronological order on the NNTP server for threading to work properly. The nature of Usenet is that it's quite possible for replies to messages to show up on a server before the original message. When this happens, FUDforum does not assign the reply to the original post and starts a new thread on the forum. This also affects the ordering of the threads - Threads appear on the forum in the order they appear on the NNTP server, not the order they were originally posted, and the "latest post" shown on the Forum is just the message that happened to appear most recently on the NNTP server, not the most recently posted article.
2) The major problem: FUDforum does not handle in-line UUencoded attachments, such as those posted by Microsoft Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail - i.e. an awful lot of posts! It tries to read the entire encoded attachment as text, and when it hits a large in-line attachment, the NNTP import script seems to go into an infinite loop and times-out, effectively ceasing all further NNTP importing as this just repeats on the next run.
Problem (2) is a big one for me - I've got as far as article number 37 in my news spool, which contains a 3.5MB in-line attachment, and can get no further. I've had to disable the cron job, as every time it runs I have to manually kill the php process.
Is there any way around this?
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