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  • Accessing Usenet via IMAP?

    From IckyPerkins@21:1/5 to Iiro Laiho on Mon Jun 28 13:58:30 2021
    On 5/19/2021 10:25 AM, Iiro Laiho wrote:
    I am wondering whether it would be feasible to read Usenet text groups
    using the IMAP protocol. Not only email clients tend to be better
    maintained than News clients nowadays, IMAP would also support
    server-side read status, and thus avoid the problem of syncing newsrc
    between different machines.

    Cyrus seems to have the capability of doing so: <http://web.mit.edu/ghudson/dev/nokrb/third/cyrus-imapd/doc/ install-netnews.html>

    Cyrus has the ability to export Usenet via IMAP and/or export shared
    IMAP mailboxes via NNTP. This is made possible by a new NNTP daemon
    which is included with Cyrus.

    But are there any publicly available Usenet providers with that kind of service set up?

    It's not exactly the same but thunderbird has usenet and it looks the
    same as email.

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to IckyPerkins on Mon Jun 28 16:01:47 2021
    On 6/28/21 12:58 PM, IckyPerkins wrote:
    It's not exactly the same but thunderbird has usenet and it looks the
    same as email.

    I believe the OP was wanting to be able to leverage IMAP's ability to
    have the read / unread status synchronized between multiple systems, but
    for news.

    Thunderbird's news read / unread status is very much per machine.



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  • From opal hart@21:1/5 to Iiro Laiho on Tue Jul 27 02:12:03 2021
    On Wed, 19 May 2021 15:25:06 -0000 (UTC)
    "Iiro Laiho" <news@iirolaiho.net> wrote:

    I am wondering whether it would be feasible to read Usenet text groups
    using the IMAP protocol.

    I've had that thought as well but I reckoned it would be better just
    for me to improve NNTP client support and share whatever I write with
    the world. I'm mostly focused on CLI-only though (so my care for TUI
    readers is out the window) and although slrnpull exists, I haven't
    tried it yet and I don't know how well it will work with other
    commandline tools.

    Not only email clients tend to be better
    maintained than News clients nowadays,

    I currently use Claws Mail which has good NNTP support as well as
    functioning primarily as a MUA. There's also Thunderbird which I
    believe still supports NNTP, but I have no idea how well it works, nor
    do I like Thunderbird for other reasons -- resource usage being my
    primary complaint, but also the insistence of shoving a Web engine into
    a mail client turns me off.

    IMAP would also support
    server-side read status, and thus avoid the problem of syncing newsrc
    between different machines.

    This functionality would be nice to have, definitely. NNTP isn't very
    fleshed out for multiple-client or mobile-device support.

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