NNTPTask

Description
Send a message to a news server.

To use this as an ANT task, you will need to add a taskdef to your build file:

<taskdef name="nntp" classname="com.deaded.ant.NNTPTask"
	classpath="commonAntTasks.jar"/>

Parameters

Attribute	Description	Required
server	The news server to send to	Yes
group	The group to send to	Yes
email	The email address of where to reply to	Yes
author	The name of the sender	Yes
subject	Subject line for the message	Yes
text	The actual message	Yes

Example

<nntp server="news.mycompany.com" group="alt.test" email="a.person@mycompany.com"
    author="A Person" subject="Test post" text="Hello, I am testing"/>

How to setup a multiline message

<property name="page.url" value="http://www.mycompany.com/common_components/"/>
<property name="line1" value="Component: $"/>
<property name="line2" value="Label: $"/>
<property name="line3" value=""/>
<property name="line4" value="changeHistory: $$/ChangeHistory.txt"/>
<property name="line5" value="Component pages: $$/index.html"/>
<property name="line6" value=""/>
<property name="line7" value="Our pages: $"/>

<!-- This is then the property to pass through to the nntp text attribute -->
<property name="nntp.text" value="$\n$\n$\n$\n$\n$\n$"/>

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