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
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Ken Murchison wrote:
> client-side support (reading/posting)
> - allow your clients to read articles from the same server/storage via
> either IMAP or NNTP
That would be _very_ cool. And I don't know of any other mail stores that
have such capability :-)
--
"One disk to
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 08:03:59PM -0400, Ken Murchison wrote:
> 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 t
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Scott Russell wrote:
> I'm a bit surprised at the need for nntp READ support though when
> anonymous IMAP mailboxes can be setup instead. I would guess though
> that people would be more failure with a 'newsgroup' than an
> anonymous IMAP mailbox.
Well, the news readers tend
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:23:11AM -0400, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Scott Russell wrote:
>
> > I'm a bit surprised at the need for nntp READ support though when
> > anonymous IMAP mailboxes can be setup instead. I would guess though
> > that people would be more failure with a
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Scott Russell wrote:
> Will news readers, like slrn and pan, support anonymous IMAP mailboxes
> or did I not understand what you were saying?
Through an NNTP interface they will, since the datastore will be shared ;)
But not in general, no.
-Rob
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> Well, the news readers tend to be better at reading shared mailboxes than
> most IMAP clients. Atleast that's what they tell me, though I haven't
> been fully impressed with any IMAP client's handling of a large number
> of shared bboards.
The fundamental problem with most (almost all?) IMAP cl
Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
Is this the following a correct summary of the strengths and
weaknesses of the IMAP and
Scott Russell wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 08:03:59PM -0400, Ken Murchison wrote:
> > 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
tember 24, 2002 11:23 PM
> To: Scott Russell
> Cc: Ken Murchison; Cyrus Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [POLL] NNTP support for Cyrus?
>
> Atleast that's what they tell me, though I haven't been fully
> impressed with any IMAP client's handling of a large number
> of shared bboards.
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Schmehl, Paul L wrote:
> Seriously? Have you tested Mulberry?
Yes (it's what we recommend at CMU, actually), and it generally does a
good job (certainly the best I've seen).
This doesn't stop people from wanting to read newsgroups with newsreaders
that they may be more fam
Well, I'm late to the picnic again (therein lies the danger of sieving list
traffic into a separate folder -- too easy to ignore), but I'm definitely
intrigued by this concept. Just this morning, several folks on the staff
here and I were discussing how to better utilize netnews as an alternat
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From: "Ken Murchison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [POLL] NNTP support for Cyrus?
> I started off on a little test project that Larry and I have been
> kick
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