From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 6:53:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gadolinium.btinternet.com (gadolinium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0714D37B409 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 06:53:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [213.1.171.117] (helo=debian.A470.com) by gadolinium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #6) id 15t8BX-0003ee-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:53:39 +0100 Received: by debian.A470.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7FFAA140B2; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:53:47 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:53:47 +0100 From: Darren Wyn Rees To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: script to dump news to mbox Message-ID: <20011015145347.A6100@debian.A470.com> References: <20010910130458.A28029@maesd.A470.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010910130458.A28029@maesd.A470.com>; from merlin@netlink.co.uk on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:04:58PM +0000 Organization: A470 X-PGP-812C54B1: F8 79 5E 84 F0 20 A5 62 FA 2D E9 BD BE 06 7D 10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's not particularly good form to reply to your own posts, nevertheless On Mon, Sep 10, 2001, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > Does anybody know of a script I could use to dump NNTP > news to a mailbox file ? The script must accept username > and pass for authentication with the remote news server. > > I've looked at 'newsdump' (can't remember the author name), > but couldn't get it to authenticate/work. The NNTPClient perl module solved this problem. -- Darren Wyn Rees merlin@netlink.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message