Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 06:21:45 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: leafnode question Message-ID: <20020127052145.GB1370@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020127030828.L648-100000@BLAST> References: <20020127030828.L648-100000@BLAST>
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On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 03:32:47AM +0200, Bernie wrote: > > hello, > > i've just configured pine to work with getmail + leafnode > for reading email and news. it seems to be going ok, but > it seems i have a problem with leafnode. > > first, about my setup, it's workstation with dialup to isp. > no local network exists. only dialup. so i've been trying > to avoid running things like sendmail and nntp etc. > > it seems that leafnode doesn't run automaticaly on my configuration. > i'm not sure if i'm right, but from what i gathered, leafnode is > supposed to connect (run fetchnews) automaticaly when a client wants > to read news. Nope. > > so far, i got it to work, so i can read news from local directory > using pine, but if i want to see if there are new posts for a group > i got to run fetchmain manualy. > Yup. > also, if i try to read the body of a message, i get a message saying: > leafnode... message ... has been marked for retrival. if i want to see > this nessage i have to run fetchmail manualy. is this the way it's > supposed to be working? i thought that when i select a group from > pine, leafnode would connect and get all new headers, and if i choose > a header, it would connect and retrieve the body... Nope. Leafnode is meant for you to create a little local news-server. When configured and you run "fetchnews" for the first time it will download all the info on the news-groups your up-stream news feed supports. Generally when users subscribe to a newsgroup the headers for that group will be downloaded at the next fetchnews run. Your users should indicate that their news-server is now ..wherever it is on your network. When they run up their news program and mark a message for reading it does what you say, it marks it for retrieval. Subsequent runs of fetchnews will get the messages so marked. (I don't think you would want it to fire off a new connection every time you mark a message for reading!). Normally you would run fetchnews from a cron job, or by hand if you like, once/twice a day or whatever. You can however configure it differently, and for a dial-up much more expensively, so that when any newsgroup is subscribed to not only the headers but the body of the message is also downloaded for the all messages in the group (up to a configurable maximum). This is fine if you are not paying telephone/connection time charges, but otherwise can be very expensive. I do it this way, but I have a fixed price 24/7 ADSL link so it has no cost implications for me. When I was using a dial-up ISDN line I was much more circumspect ! -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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