New Thread I was thinking of an NNTP server that would be on the scale of Aaron's example, and not Leif's.
I never really liked the archiving done by pipermail/mailman, its hard to make threads cross archiving intervals. I would like to see a mailbox exported to a nntp group. that way archives can be offloaded or browsed in the user's local client. 'I would like to see' is starting to become 'I would like to program' as I am starting to like and deploy dbmail, twice in the last week. My first requirement is an nntp export only with dbmail-smtp insertion - that is all I need/want. But other features are welcomed to be identified. Anyone else think this is a good idea? bad idea? ed On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Aaron Stone wrote: > On more fundamental open source grounds, requests like these are generally > just useless noise. Development happens when someone wants some software to do > x,y,z task, cannot find anything to their liking, and so the person then goes > and writes the software themselves. If they share it with others, that's when > you get open source! > > I've always wanted to have a simple local news server that was also easily > connected to a web forum. The lack of any sort of standardization among > forums, or worse, the ones that try to use DAV and XML to "share" drives me > nuts. So I've never had my small little news site. That's the itch that I > might scratch by writing an NNTP server. > > Leif's advice is well taken, though. Usenet is a scary place to be; I've seen > the news servers at my local ISP keep the access lights on a RAID array > solidly lit all day and all night. And it's a small ISP. > > Aaron > > > ""Leif Jackson"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Ed, For good reason, > > > > I used to work for one of the worlds largest NNTP providers. And believe > > me from experience we do not want to get into NNTP stuff. The reason none > > of the currently available NNTP server code uses an RDBM is that the file > > IO is so heavy and requires so much IO that it takes all of a fiber > > channel disk system and Sun 420R's with 4G of ram to keep up with a full > > NNTP feed. Much less serve any end users. Roughly about 65Mbps (to > > 90Mbps) for a full feed now, scary eh? > > > > my suggestion is to leave nntp alone :) > > > > -leif > > > > > Let me know when the NNTP service starts development. > > > No other NNTP servers that I've found use a RDBMS backend. > > > > > > ed > > > > > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Aaron Stone wrote: > > > > > >> This is really, really good... I wonder if it can be combined with a > > >> macro or > > >> built into a macro so that the "if (ci_write) return -1" could be > > >> "ci_write" > > >> and since there's only ever one stream to write, "ci->tx" could be > > >> assumed. > > >> > > >> The LMTP code doesn't use the ClientInfo structure, but in the process > > >> of > > >> refactoring the server code these sorts of micro-differences should be > > >> brought > > >> together so that the ClientInfo structure is either generic enough or > > >> beefy > > >> enough (just toss all of the different elements into it) to handle IMAP, > > >> POP, > > >> LMTP, and whatever else comes next (NNTP anyone? ;-) > > >> > > >> Aaron > > >> > > >> > > >> Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >> > > >> > > > >> > Hi all, > > >> > > > >> > Since there were no takers, I did a follow-up on my earlier conclusion > > >> > that the networking code could do with some improvements. > > >> > > > >> > For those of you who haven't followed the list; dbmail2 won't work > > >> with > > >> > mozilla and derivatives. > > >> > > > >> > I've wrapped the code talking to clients in simple wrappers with error > > >> > checking, and lo; mozilla suddenly works just fine with dbmail2 :-) > > >> > > > >> > As a proof-of-concept I'm attaching my patch against the HEAD branch > > >> as > > >> > of today. > > >> > > > >> > This is not for inclusion in CVS just yet. It's still kind of rough, > > >> but > > >> > I wanted to share my relief that this really does appear to fix the > > >> bug. > > >> > Also, pop3.c and lmtpd.c would probably also benefit from this > > >> approach > > >> > as well. > > >> > > > >> > IMO imap4.c and friends could do with some re-indenting. Looks like > > >> > there are several different indent-styles intertwined in the code. Any > > >> > consensus on that regard ? > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > -- > > >> > ________________________________________________________________ > > >> > Paul Stevens mailto:[EMAIL > > >> > PROTECTED] > > >> > NET FACILITIES GROUP PGP: finger [EMAIL > > >> > PROTECTED] > > >> > The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Dbmail-dev mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev > > >> > > > > > > Security on the internet is impossible without strong, open, > > > and unhindered encryption. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Dbmail-dev mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dbmail-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev > > > > > > -- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev >
