I started off on a little test project that Larry and I have been kicking around, and I wanted to get some feedback from the list.
As people may or may not know, you can setup Cyrus to store usenet newsgroups in IMAP folders. Currently, the best known solution for feeding articles to Cyrus is to use 'imapfeed' which is in the development branch of INN (there is also a patch against INN 2.2.1 in netnews/). In working on 'imapfeed' (porting to SASLv2, etc), it occured to me that some sites might be partial to different news server software, or might prefer to not have a separate news server at all. So, how many people (if any) are interested in seeing NNTP support built into Cyrus? I'm interested in hearing about both server-side and client-side support. server-side (server/server transfer): - would allow articles to be fed directly to Cyrus from _any_ NNTP server (either your own, or your ISP's) - might allow for easy mailstore replication client-side support (reading/posting) - allow your clients to read articles from the same server/storage via either IMAP or NNTP FWIW, I already have a working nntpd prototype in the 2.2 branch of CVS. The server-side support works in both streaming and non-streaming modes. I have only tested this with INN doing the feeding. The client-side support works with Pine for both reading and posting (articles are not fed upstream yet). Neither Netscape nor Outlook seem happy with the current client-side support as them both appear to depend on the XOVER extension. Ken -- Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 --PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp