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NAME

       pmdaemon - Automatically check postings to newsgroups


SYNOPSIS

       pmdaemonarticle


DESCRIPTION

       Pmdaemon is invoked by INN as articles arrive in particular newsgroups.
       When an article is in a newsgroup that is being monitored, pmcheck(1)
       is run to check the X-Auth: header for that group. An article which
       fails the check will cause a mail message to be sent to the configured
       destination for that newsgroup, and can optionally issue an automatic
       cancellation message. Messages are also checked for any individual's
       authorisations, and if the message fails such a check mail is sent to
       the address given on the X-Auth: line.

       To arrange for pmdaemon to be invoked, an entry similar to the
       following should be added to the newsfeeds(5) file.
       PGPMoose! :!*,local,sci.crypt.research, misc.test.moderated,comp.binaries.geos, comp.os.linux.announce,comp.std.c++,comp.sources.misc        :Tp:/home/ggr/pgpmoose/pmdaemon %s

       A configuration file, by default called checkedgroups, determines which
       of these newsgroups are actually being controlled.  Messages in
       uncontrolled groups are nevertheless scanned for individuals'
       authentications.  This configuration file must contains a sorted list
       of lines, each with three tab-separated fields.  The first field is the
       name of a controlled newsgroup. The second is a keyword specifying the
       action to be taken upon receipt of an article which fails the check;
       currently the supported possibilities are email and cancel which each
       send mail, but one also cancels the posting automatically, or ignore,
       which can be used as a placeholder if a newsgroup is temporarily being
       ignored. The third field is an email address to which the mail
       notification will be sent.

       The mail gives the output of the pmcheck command, which will detail the
       reason for rejection of the article, the full article itself, and a
       preformatted cancel message which can be posted (after approving it of
       course) to cancel the article. If the article is automatically
       cancelled, the cancellation is approved by a special user, whose key is
       distributed with pmdaemon.

       There are certain kinds of messages which are ignored by pmdaemon.
       These are: all cancel messages, so that two PGP Moose daemons can never
       get into an argument with each other; control messages, and all
       messages approved by (tale|newgroups-request|group-admin)@isc.org;
       messages approved by people entered in the othermoderators file.

       The othermoderators file lists newsgroups and corresponding approval
       lines for groups where some of the moderators use the PGP Moose, and
       others don't (but should...). It can also be used to allow cooperating
       groups to approve posts to each other's groups.

       Pmdaemon keeps a log of its actions, by default in a file called
       mooselog. This must be cleaned up manually.


FILES

       The checkedgroups, mooselog and othermoderators files live in a
       configurable directory. There is also a special keyring, pmcancel.pgp
       which provides the PGP userid which authenticates cancel messages.


SEE ALSO

       pmapp(1), pmcheck(1)


AUTHOR

       Greg Rose, RoSecure Software.

                                   PGP Moose                       PMDAEMON(1)

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