Scott Russell wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:11:50PM -0400, Ken Murchison wrote: > > FYI, the client side of nntpd is essentially complete. It now works > > with Pine, Netscape (Mozilla), and Outlook. The issue with Netscape and > > Outlook was that they both seem REQUIRE support for the XOVER extension > > (Netscape because of a bug and Outlook because of poor design). > > > > The only major missing functionality is support for wildmat patterns. > > Right now, only IMAP-style patterns are supported. > > So, if I've been following this right, the way to work this is to use > nntpd for access to shared mailboxes (not user.*).
Are you trying to share a personal mailbox or a public mailbox? Unless you specify a "newsprefix" to put newsgroups in their own hierarchy, nntpd will work for any mailbox that the user can read (including user.*). > How does 'expire' work in this case? I'm wondering about getting rid > of old articles in the shared imap mailbox. Right now, I'm using 'ipurge', but I have an 'expirenews' tool to purge entries from netnews.db which I plan on adding the article delete code to. > I'm very interested in this work since it would make for a fine > news2mail gateway setup I think. Yes, I'm using it right now for news2mail and I'm using lmtp2nntp for mail2news. I can read newsgroups/shared mailboxes with my Netscape client via NNTP or IMAP without INN anywhere in sight. If you can give me more details on what you're trying to accomplish, I can tell you how to set it up and/or make the necessary changes to allow what you need. If it helps visualize how this all fits together, I have attached a PDF of an xfig drawing that I put in CVS. 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
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