Cyrus to USENET gateway

[Nils Vogels]

Ken Murchison wrote:

> Nils Vogels wrote:
>
>> Ken Murchison wrote:
>>
>>> Nils Vogels wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm currently looking for some kind of solution, that will allow me 
>>>> to gateway between Cyrus and USENET.
>>>>
>>>> Right now I'm using an MLM solution, that fetches certain groups 
>>>> from a server, drops and drops them in a Cyrus bb, but I'm trying 
>>>> to see if threre is anything around that will allow me to integrate 
>>>> this further.
>>>>
>>>> The things that currently trouble me are:
>>>>
>>>> 1) I've found the feedcyrus shellscript, but this only seems to 
>>>> work for an INN install. I do not have the resources to install INN 
>>>> as well on the mailserver, and I do not want articles to be both in 
>>>> the INN system, and in the Cyrus system. Would it be possible to 
>>>> use for instance an slrn-pull setup for this as well ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cyrus 2.2 has a fully functional NNTP server so you can feed 
>>> articles directly into Cyrus (or pull them from another server) and 
>>> have them served via IMAP/POP3 and/or NNTP.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've been playing with this option, unfortunately all the newsservers 
>> I have access to will not allow me to use the NEWNEWS command, and 
>> thus fetchnews fails miserably.
>>
>> Given the fact that NEWNEWS is rather expensive to run on a full-feed 
>> newsserver in busy groups, I can imagine more people having issues 
>> with this restriction.
>>
>> Would it be possible to have another way get the 'last fed message' 
>> other than the use of NEWNEWS ? (maybe XOVER, or something?)
>
>
> This would require maintaining a lot of extra state, andI really don't 
> want to write a full featured client.  Patches are always welcome.  ;) 
> Feel free to use some other tool if you find one that works.  Anything 
> that speaks NNTP or IMAP should work.

OK, Ill start a search and tell you the results if I find anything 
useful ;-)

>
> Why not just have the newsserver feed directly to Cyrus?  I only wrote 
> fetchnews because we have our newsfeed sent to a newsserver outside 
> our firewall and I didn't want to allow outside access to my Cyrus 
> server.
>
You are assuming I have control over the newsserver I use ... I do not ;-)

Gr,

Nils.

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