Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:44:59 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail + news Message-ID: <20020115204459.GD7588@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <941349971.20020115004344@mindspring.com> References: <20020115074752.E271-100000@BLAST> <941349971.20020115004344@mindspring.com>
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:43:44AM -0800, Brian Sobolak wrote: > hi > > Monday, January 14, 2002, 10:01:21 PM, you wrote: > > > B> hi, just wonder if u can help me with the following... > > > B> i posted in the pine group and got a reply saying that i should > B> look into things like fetchmail + leafnode. > Install leafnode. Be aware the first time you run fetchnews it will hike your phone bill up since it will download details of all the newsgroups from your up-stream news provider. This only has to be done once though. From then on when it is run it will download new messages for the subscribed to news groups (though again the first time you subscribe to a new nesgroup it will take a while as it downloads the number of headers you specifcy in the fetchnews configuration). There are a few other ins-and outs, but that should get you going. Leafnode, as it's author freely admits, is not state of the art news software ! But for home users/soho users with a small number of susbscribed groups it is fine. As for news readers, in console mode I recommend "slrn", for X "knode" is pretty good, but a bit opaque at times. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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