From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 20 0:27: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from moon.mteege.de (ppps-nb03.MVnet.de [194.25.108.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50DE41AF70 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 00:26:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matthias@mteege.de) Received: (from matthias@localhost) by moon.mteege.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA03523; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 08:53:49 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from matthias) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 08:53:48 +0200 From: Matthias Teege To: Terry Todd Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: news2mail programs Message-ID: <19991020085348.A3299@moon.mteege.de> References: <199910191743.MAA91174@tltodd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199910191743.MAA91174@tltodd.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message