On 10/23/21 8:17 AM, Ted Heise wrote:

On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 23:30:45 -0500,
711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart> wrote:

Arch is Debian. Goal is to set up inn to serve some local
groups and to feed with other nntp hosts with a few text
groups.

How may I proceed to install and set up inn without [exim]?

As an alternative would there be some other nntp server that
fits my requirements, that does not require studying for a new
virtual degree just to install it?

If you are only wanting a small subset of news, leafnode might
suit your needs.

I already looked at leafnode. It is nice in concept except one must set
up all their own access controls with Linux primitives (like inetd),
which is quite a lot more work than configuring inn.

In my test container I installed dma first and configured it so the
Internet can never reach it, then inn installed without pulling down a
bucket of exim binaries.

--
──┏━━━━┓──┏━━┓───┏━━┓── ┌────────────────────────┐ ┌────────┐
──┗━━┓─┃──┗┓─┃───┗┓─┃── │ Spooky Mart [chan] 711 │ │ always │
─────┃─┃──┏┛─┗┓──┏┛─┗┓─ │ https://bitmessage.org │ │ open │
─────┗━┛──┗━━━┛──┗━━━┛─ └────────────────────────┘ └────────┘

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)