Greetings,
I am evaluating DNews for possible purchase for our small business.
Basically we have a small number of users (less than 50), and we would
like to use DNews to allow controlled access to few work related
newsgroups from several servers.
The problem is that we have no suck/ihave arrangements and I was told that
DNews can be configured to act as a newsreader and will get the headers in
those newsgroups that we specify.
Being a DNews newbie, I read the documentation, and somehow, I can't see
how to configure DNews to get articles as standalone newsreader mode.
We have newsgroup server subscription that requires authentication.
So basically can anyone help in telling me how to setup DNews to retrieve
and allow posting to a bunch of newsgroup from each server, for example:
From server1, username: username1, password: password1
group1
group2
group3
From server2 username: username2, password: password2
group4
group5
group6
In dnews.conf add
nntp_feeder server1 group1,group2,group3 username1 password1
nntp_suck2 server2 group3,group4,group5 username2 password2
Then issue the command
tellnews getgroups
tellnews cached "*" 1000
tellnews update
Also, how can I allow DNews to listen to port 80 instead of 119?
You can but it won't talk http it will still talk nntp, so that would be
unwise, the setting would be
port 80 (in dnews.conf)
You might find it easier using surgenews
http://netwinsite.com/surgenews
as that includes a built in web interface which can run on port 80.
ChrisP.
