Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:05:15 +0200 From: Matthias Teege <matthias@mteege.de> To: Terry Todd <tlt@badger.tltodd.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: news2mail programs Message-ID: <19991020180515.B3299@moon.mteege.de> In-Reply-To: <19991020083459.A566@badger.tltodd.com> References: <199910191743.MAA91174@tltodd.com> <19991020085348.A3299@moon.mteege.de> <19991020083459.A566@badger.tltodd.com>
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On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 08:34:59AM -0500, Terry Todd wrote: > Mathias, > > > > On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 08:53:48AM +0200, Matthias Teege wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 12:43:13PM -0500, Terry Todd wrote: > > > > > > > > > Can anyone recommend a news2mail program? I have tried Alex Schnitman's > > > but it doesn't seem to work. It compiles but when I try to run it it > > > connects to the news server and then times out without doing anything. > > > I am looking for something that can run on my FreeBSD 3.2 system and > > > will connect to a news server on another system to do a news2mail > > > function. I don't want all the overhead of running inn or cnews. > > > I just want to provide a service for people who only have email access > > > to the internet the ability to receive one or two newsgroups of my > > > choosing. Has anyone had any success with Alex's news2mail on FreeBSD? > > > > checkout the cyrus mailserver in the ports. > > Matthias > > > > -- > > Matthias Teege -- matthias@mteege.de -- http://emugs.de > > make world not war > > PGP-Key auf Anfrage > > > I checked out cyrus. I downloaded it and installed it and then > looked at the cyrus doc pages on the web. > > From: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/cyrus-overview.html#news > "The IMAP server can export netnews newsgroups as IMAP mailboxes. > This is done by creating a partition named news which points to > the news spool directory and arranging for the IMAP server's > auxiliary databases to be maintained. The server software includes > programs for integrating with the INN netnews server. The following > information assumes working knowledge of the INN netnews server." > > Which is way way more complicated than what I am looking for. yes of course but in my opinion this is the "clean" way. Use a newsserver for the news and a mailserver for the mail. For your service use the news feature of cyrus. I think it is not so complicated it looks like. Use it for a while and you will enjoy it. :-) The advantage is on the long run. Bis dann Matthias -- Matthias Teege -- matthias@mteege.de -- http://emugs.de make world not war PGP-Key auf Anfrage To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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