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NAME

       incoming.conf - Configuration of incoming news feeds

DESCRIPTION

       The file pathetc/incoming.conf consists of three types of entries:
       key/value, peer and group.  Comments are from the hash character "#" to
       the end of the line.  Blank lines are ignored.  All key/value entries
       within each type must not be duplicated.  Key/value entries are a
       keyword immediately followed by a colon, at least one blank and a
       value.  For example:

           max-connections: 10

       A legal key does not contains blanks, colons, nor "#". There are three
       different types of values:  integers, booleans, and strings.  Integers
       are as to be expected.  A boolean value is either "true" or "false"
       (case is significant).  A string value is any other sequence of
       characters.  If the string needs to contain whitespace, then it must be
       quoted with double quotes.

       Peer entries look like:

           peer <name> {
               # body
           }

       The word "peer" is required.  <name> is a label for this peer.  It is
       any string valid as a key.  The body of a peer entry contains some
       number of key/value entries.

       Group entries look like:

           group <name> {
               # body
           }

       The word "group" is required.  <name> is any string valid as a key.
       The body of a group entry contains any number of the three types of
       entries.  So key/value pairs can be defined inside a group, and peers
       can be nested inside a group, and other groups can be nested inside a
       group.  Key/value entries that are defined outside of all peer and
       group entries are said to be at global scope.  Global key/value entries
       act as defaults for peers.  When innd looks for a specific value in a
       peer entry (for example, the maximum number of connections to allow),
       if the value is not defined in the peer entry, then the enclosing
       groups are examined for the entry (starting at the closest enclosing
       group).  If there are no enclosing groups, or the enclosing groups
       don’t define the key/value, then the value at global scope is used.  A
       small example could be:

           # Global value applied to all peers that have no value of their own.
           max-connections: 5

           # A peer definition.
           peer uunet {
               hostname: usenet1.uu.net
           }

           peer vixie {
               hostname: gw.home.vix.com
               max-connections: 10        # Override global value.
           }

           # A group of two peers which can open more connections than normal.
           group fast-sites {
               max-connections: 15

               # Another peer.  The max-connections: value from the
               # fast-sites group scope is used.
               peer data.ramona.vix.com {
                   hostname: data.ramona.vix.com
               }

               peer bb.home.vix.com {
                   hostname: bb.home.vix.com
                   max-connections: 20    # He can really cook.
              }
           }

       Given the above configuration file, the defined peers would have the
       following values for the max-connections key.

           uunet                  5
           vixie                 10
           data.ramona.vix.com   15
           bb.home.vix.com       20

PARAMETERS

       The following keys are allowed:

       comment
           This key requires a string value.  Reserved for future use.  The
           default is an empty string.

       email
           This key requires a string value.  Reserved for future use.  The
           default is an empty string.

       hold-time
           This key requires a positive integer value.  It defines the hold
           time before closing, if the connection is over max-connections.  A
           value of zero specifies immediate close.  The default is 0.

       hostname
           This key requires a string value.  It is a list of hostnames
           separated by a comma.  A hostname is the host’s fully qualified
           domain name, or the dotted-quad IP address of the peer for IPv4, or
           the colon-separated IP address of the peer for IPv6.  If this key
           is not present in a peer block, the hostname defaults to the label
           of the peer.

       identd
           This key requires a string value.  It is used if you wish to
           require a peer’s user name retrieved through identd match the
           specified string.  Note that currently innd does not implement any
           timeout in identd callbacks, so enabling this option may cause innd
           to hang if the remote peer does not respond to ident callbacks in a
           reasonable timeframe.  The default is an empty string, that is to
           say no identd.

       ignore
           This key requires a boolean value.  Setting this entry causes innd
           to refuse every article sent via CHECK or IHAVE by this peer.  The
           default is false.

       max-connections
           This key requires a positive integer value.  It defines the maximum
           number of connections allowed.  A value of zero specifies an
           unlimited number of maximum connections ("unlimited" or "none" can
           be used as synonyms).  The default is 0.

       nolist
           This key requires a boolean value.  It defines whether a peer is
           allowed to issue list command.  The default is false, that is to
           say it can.

       noresendid
           This key requires a boolean value.  It defines whether innd should
           send 431 (response to CHECK, in streaming mode) or 436 (response to
           IHAVE in non-streaming mode) responses instead of 438 (response to
           CHECK) or 435 (response to IHAVE) if a message is offered that is
           already received from another peer.  This can be useful for peers
           that resend messages right away, as innfeed does.  The default is
           false:  the peer receives 431 and 436 codes so that it resends the
           article later.

       password
           This key requires a string value.  It is used if you wish to
           require a peer to supply a password via AUTHINFO USER/PASS.  The
           default is an empty string, that it to say no password.

       patterns
           This key requires a string value.  It is a list of
           newsfeeds(5)-style list of newsgroups which are to be accepted from
           this host.  The default is the string "*", that is to say all
           groups are accepted.

       skip
           This key requires a boolean value.  Setting this entry causes this
           peer to be skipped.  The default is false.

       streaming
           This key requires a boolean value.  It defines whether streaming
           commands (CHECK and TAKETHIS) are allowed from this peer.  The
           default is true.

HISTORY

       Written by Fabien Tassin <fta@sofaraway.org> for InterNetNews.
       Converted to POD by Julien Elie.

       $Id: incoming.conf.pod 8436 2009-05-01 09:00:21Z iulius $

SEE ALSO

       inn.conf(5), innd(8), newsfeeds(5), uwildmat(3).