popularity of NNTP (Re: nntp not working after upgrade)

[Dennis Davis]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, Mikhail T. wrote:

> From: Mikhail T. <mi+cyrus at aldan.algebra.com>
> To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Cc: dennisdavis at fastmail.fm
> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 17:12:21
> Subject: Re: popularity of NNTP (Re: nntp not working after upgrade)
>
> > This particular mailing list appears available as the gmane Newsgroup:
> >
> >     gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
> >
> > readable via the web or NNTP.

> Do Gmane use Cyrus software? Do they have their configuration
> of it available for browsing? I suspect, the answer is "no" to
> both...

Yup, "no" to both.

Looking at their download page:

http://gmane.org/dist.php

they mention using INN, Usenet server software.  So they're
gatewaying email lists into Newsgroups.  And not using IMAP
software at all.  This is what I did, although they're
obviously a lot more sophisticated.

> Perhaps, I was not clear -- I already use Cyrus as an IMAP server
> for both private mailboxes and the shared ones with mailing-list
> archives. I'd like to be able to offer /those same archives/ via
> NNTP as well (/in addition to/ IMAP) -- to make it easier for
> people to read them.

Several email clients -- eg alpine, sylpheed, claws-mail, etc --
appear to have the functionality to use an NNTP server that's
separate from an IMAP server.  So distinctions can get a bit
blurred...

> I'm quite certain, Cyrus has that functionality, but I could not
> figure out, how to enable it :-( That was my complaint...

...but this isn't what you want :-(
-- 
Dennis Davis <dennisdavis at fastmail.fm>