Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>: > > > Does anybody have any idea what it would take to set up a private NNTP > > server that served articles from a dozen or so IMAP mailboxes? > > > > How hard would it be to write something like that in Python? I've got > > a pretty good handle on the IMAP end of things, but I've got no clue > > about the NNTP server end. > > I bet NNTP (<URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3977>) is a simpler > beast than IMAP. > > Maybe Twisted has some support for it, I don't know, but writing a > server from scratch wouldn't be too bad, either. > > However, the simplest way forward might be to just take an off-the-shelf > NNTP server and write a IMAP/NNTP gateway bot that acts as a client > bothways. Then you can use Python's nntplib and imaplib. > Leafnode might be a good place to start.
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