From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 20 6:35:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tltodd.com (badger.tltodd.com [208.133.92.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A5FA1B620 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 06:35:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlt@tltodd.com) Received: (from tlt@localhost) by tltodd.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA00595 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 08:34:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tlt) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 08:34:59 -0500 From: Terry Todd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: news2mail programs Message-ID: <19991020083459.A566@badger.tltodd.com> References: <199910191743.MAA91174@tltodd.com> <19991020085348.A3299@moon.mteege.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19991020085348.A3299@moon.mteege.de>; from Matthias Teege on Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 08:53:48AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mathias, On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 08:53:48AM +0200, Matthias Teege wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 12:43:13PM -0500, Terry Todd wrote: > > > > > > Can anyone recommend a news2mail program? I have tried Alex Schnitman's > > but it doesn't seem to work. It compiles but when I try to run it it > > connects to the news server and then times out without doing anything. > > I am looking for something that can run on my FreeBSD 3.2 system and > > will connect to a news server on another system to do a news2mail > > function. I don't want all the overhead of running inn or cnews. > > I just want to provide a service for people who only have email access > > to the internet the ability to receive one or two newsgroups of my > > choosing. Has anyone had any success with Alex's news2mail on FreeBSD? > > checkout the cyrus mailserver in the ports. > Matthias > > -- > Matthias Teege -- matthias@mteege.de -- http://emugs.de > make world not war > PGP-Key auf Anfrage > I checked out cyrus. I downloaded it and installed it and then looked at the cyrus doc pages on the web. From: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/cyrus-overview.html#news "The IMAP server can export netnews newsgroups as IMAP mailboxes. This is done by creating a partition named news which points to the news spool directory and arranging for the IMAP server's auxiliary databases to be maintained. The server software includes programs for integrating with the INN netnews server. The following information assumes working knowledge of the INN netnews server." Which is way way more complicated than what I am looking for. Thanks anyway, Terry Todd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message