usenet/imap

[Edwardo Garcia]

On 9/13/14, Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/12/14, Edwardo Garcia <wdgarc88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9/12/14, Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> How much of these group are active? Or how many post a day on average you
>> get?
>>
>>> 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,
>>>
>> We looked at inn, it is, to be blunt, a diabolical mess , the access
>> file is nightmare, it no limit user concurrency or daily limit by
>> default without write external code, if inn is typical, is no wonder
>> usenet is not as popular this days.
>>
>
> DNews  I've heard since its  unsupported now, they are. or have, given
> away free keys to some who've asked. We use it, its really powerful,
> awesome of system resource niceness, and so easy to configure even a
> child could do it (helolo Benny LOL), try download an have a go, yo
> can try-before-you-buy with anyway, and I think it still runs forever,
> not crippled if you dont get a key, it just puts messages into posts
> about it after a while.

oh wow, as I say to Dave, yes you are right, total worlds apart, very
happy now, will use dnews and forget imap intergration, even though
FAQ say it easy to do, no point now, upstream is happy for us to pull
a feed from rather than direct feed our imap.

> DNews even has a mail gateway which would be a sinch to add to imap,
> but again, thats crazy, dont do it, unless you only want a handful of
> groups.
>
> Oh benefit of DNews is, in "pull mode" it only gets what groups are
> read, so you dont need to get the full 40K groups if you dont want
> them, if you want a full feed, I suggest setting it up as ihave, and
> use suck2 to populate your news server with all articles of all groups
> your upstream has, but be careful of bandwith requirements for that,
> and I suggest you suspend your ihave until that is completed.
>
> This really off topic now, so if you need to talk more about it,
> contact me offlist so we dont upset the crybabies.
>