NNTP to email?

[Brian Kimball]

Chris Kenrick wrote:

> I'm rather fond of mutt as an email client, and would like to use it to
> read Usenet articles too.

Try mailman. Create a new list for each newsgroup that you read and
then configure the lists as mail<->news gateways. Subscribe yourself
to the lists. Viola. Instant NNTP-via-SMTP.

I did this just last week because I can't stand slrn or any other
newsreader and it worked reasonably well (up until I remembered that
usenet is a gigantic fucking waste of time and purged mailman :-) ).

A few caveats:

1) I'm using unstable. Stable's mailman might not be able to gate news.
2) Make sure anyone can post to the lists, or mailman will hold all the
articles for moderator/owner approval
3) see the exhaustive example mailman config file under /usr/share/doc/mailman/
to see how to store your NNTP server name & password and such.
4) edit /etc/cron.d/mailman to change how often gate_news runs.
The default is 5 minutes. :-)
5) the gate_news program by default "catches up" to newsgroups it hasn't
seen before, so the lists won't see posts prior to the first run of
gate_news. If you don't like this then you'll need to _temporarily_
hack gate_news before its first run (IIRC add something like
"watermark = 0" right after it sets "watermark" (not sure if that's
the variable name). Be prepared for mailman to spend hours
processing the results.

happy hacking...


brian


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[Paul Johnson]

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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 08:29:10AM +0200, Danie Roux wrote:

> But I would suggest to go the whole way, and just use slrn for news. I
> love mutt for mail myself, but I use slrn for news. Much the same "feel"
> as mutt gives you.

I just tried slrn...two big concerns: How do you hide read articles
in the index, and can it use PGP?

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[Alan Chandler]

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On Monday 04 Aug 2003 8:04 am, Brian Kimball wrote:

> Chris Kenrick wrote:

> > I'm rather fond of mutt as an email client, and would like to use it to
> > read Usenet articles too.

>
> Try mailman. Create a new list for each newsgroup that you read and
> then configure the lists as mail<->news gateways. Subscribe yourself
> to the lists. Viola. Instant NNTP-via-SMTP.
>

I do this too - it works great - especially as I use kmail and can't stand
knode.

I go with most of the caveats in the above post - just two more

Careful with mailman - it lets you add the mailing list ID into the subject
area of each post - careful when posting back to the list, and

Careful with archiving - I discovered that mailman was archiving all the posts
to the newsgroup - which was great until I realised it was taking up disk
space and I could see any obvious way to purge the archive.




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[Anthony Rowe]

*Blush* I sent this to Paul and I meant to send it to the list so I am
forwarding it. I should take my own advice and subscribe to the list.
Sorry for the noise, Paul.

Tony

[Paul Johnson]

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On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:53:21PM -0300, Anthony Rowe wrote:

> I have not tried it. But there should be native support for PGP I
> reckon. There are no bugs about this in the BTS. I checked. Should
> I file one? Would it be "wishlist"?

Yes, feature requests like this one would definately be "wishlist."

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