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›1mNAME›22m
       mailnews, sendnews - send unbatched news as mail
       recenews, recpnews - receive mailed news
       bdecode - decode encoded mailed news

›1mSYNOPSIS›22m
       ›1m/usr/lib/newsbin/relay/mailnews›22m address ...
       ›1m/usr/lib/newsbin/relay/sendnews›22m address ...
       ›1m/usr/lib/newsbin/input/recenews›22m
       ›1m/usr/lib/newsbin/input/recpnews›22m
       ›1m/usr/lib/newsbin/input/bdecode›22m [ file ]

›1mDESCRIPTION›22m
       Sometimes  it  is  necessary to transmit news via mail, to
       deal with network connections that have no notion of arbi­
       trary  file  transfer or non­mail traffic.  These programs
       handle unbatched transmission  and  batched  or  unbatched
       reception.  (Batched transmission is handled by the batch­
       ing subsystem; see ›4mnewsbatch›24m(8).)

       ›4mMailnews›24m accepts news from its standard input, encodes  it
       using  ›4mbencode›24m  (see ›4mbencode›24m(1) or ›4mnewsbatch›24m(8)) to ensure
       that stupid mailers do not corrupt it, and mails it to the
       ›4maddress›24mes.

       ›4mSendnews›24m  does  likewise,  but  uses an inferior method of
       mailer protection (prepending `N' to each line) which does
       not  protect against all forms of mailer brain­damage.  It
       is provided for backward compatibility; its  use  is  dis­
       couraged.

       ›4mMailnews›24m  and  ›4msendnews›24m are located in the default path of
       transmission commands in the ›4msys›24m  file  (see  ›4mnews›24m(5))  so
       that  they  can  be  used from there without giving a full
       pathname.

       ›4mRecenews›24m receives encoded  news  sent  by  ›4mmailnews›24m  or  a
       batcher, decodes it, and feeds it to ›4mrnews›24m (see ›4mrnews›24m(8)).
       ›4mRecpnews›24m does likewise for mail protected with `N'.   Nor­
       mally one should arrange that mail arriving at the mailbox
       ``enews'' is sent to ›4mrecenews›24m and likewise  for  ``rnews''
       (the  name  is  historical,  for  compatibility again) and
       ›4mrecpnews›24m.

       ›4mBdecode›24m passes standard input, or the  ›4mfile›24m  if  there  is
       one, to standard output, decoding the ›4mbencode›24m encoding and
       stripping off debris prepended and appended by mailers.

›1mSEE›22m ›1mALSO›22m
       bencode(1), mail(1), news(5), newsbatch(8), rnews(8)

›1mHISTORY›22m
       Written at U of Toronto by Henry Spencer,  with  contribu­
       tions  by Geoff Collyer.  ›4mBdecode›24m written at University of



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       Waterloo by Reg Quinton and Ken Lalonde.
























































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