usenet/imap

[Nick Edwards]

On 9/11/14, Edwardo Garcia <wdgarc88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Halo,
>
> Has anyones had experiences with feeding usenet  into imap folders, we
> like to have some group for all user, any problem with message limit?
> We only want the text newsgroups?
>

Thats crazy!

Depending on your news feed that will get huge over time, and if you
try get a back feed of existing posts, thats even crazier, my upstream
feeds me over FORTY THOUSAND text newsgroups. thats unrealistic to
feed into imap, just advertise your news server, or if you dont have
one, set up inn on a spare machine, hell for a couple thousand users,
a junk box (ie: even a 10yo 32bit desktop PC with half a gig of ram
will run nicely)  starting out you wont need terabytes of disk space,
but heck,  a 1TB sata drive is cheap enough so if it fails its no
bother, a 1TB scsi, might be a different story LOL (but of course is
much much more reliable than sata).

There are a few places around who will give you a free feed if you
dont have one, and if you get stuck ask me off list, I get one off
someone who used to be on this list, though he's likely forgotten that
I do as it was a couple years ago he connected us up  :-)