[STATUS] NNTP support (10/17/02)

[Ken Murchison]

Scott Russell wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:11:50PM -0400, Ken Murchison wrote:
> > FYI, the client side of nntpd is essentially complete.  It now works
> > with Pine, Netscape (Mozilla), and Outlook.  The issue with Netscape and
> > Outlook was that they both seem REQUIRE support for the XOVER extension
> > (Netscape because of a bug and Outlook because of poor design).
> >
> > The only major missing functionality is support for wildmat patterns.
> > Right now, only IMAP-style patterns are supported.
> 
> So, if I've been following this right, the way to work this is to use
> nntpd for access to shared mailboxes (not user.*).

Are you trying to share a personal mailbox or a public mailbox?  Unless
you specify a "newsprefix" to put newsgroups in their own hierarchy,
nntpd will work for any mailbox that the user can read (including
user.*).


> How does 'expire' work in this case? I'm wondering about getting rid
> of old articles in the shared imap mailbox.

Right now, I'm using 'ipurge', but I have an 'expirenews' tool to purge
entries from netnews.db which I plan on adding the article delete code
to.


> I'm very interested in this work since it would make for a fine
> news2mail gateway setup I think.

Yes, I'm using it right now for news2mail and I'm using lmtp2nntp for
mail2news.  I can read newsgroups/shared mailboxes with my Netscape
client via NNTP or IMAP without INN anywhere in sight.

If you can give me more details on what you're trying to accomplish, I
can tell you how to set it up and/or make the necessary changes to allow
what you need.

If it helps visualize how this all fits together, I have attached a PDF
of an xfig drawing that I put in CVS.

Ken
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