Subject: NEWSRC location?

From: "Bruce H. McIntosh" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:15:37 -0500

Does the .newsrc file have to be on the local machine running pine?  Is
there some way I can keep my newsrc file on, say, the imap server?  I read
news from work and from home and I'd like to keep the newsreading "synced
up" between home and work.  Any suggestions?

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 12:32:35 +0100 (CET)

>up" between home and work. Any suggestions?

From pine's built-in help:

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# Full path and name of NEWSRC file
newsrc-path=

        OPTION: newsrc-path
This option overrides the default name Pine uses for your "newsrc" news
status and subscription file. If set, Pine will take this value as the full
pathname for the desired newsrc file.

If this option is not set, Unix Pine looks for the file ~/.newsrc and
PC-Pine looks first for $HOME\NEWSRC (where $HOME defaults to the root of
the current drive, e.g. "C:\" ) and then it looks in the same directory as
your pinerc file for NEWSRC.
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Cheers,
Robin

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:51:52 +0000 (GMT)

If you are using NNTP to _read_ Usenet News (it's always used to _post_
News articles) then your .newsrc file has to be visible to your local
machine.  By this I mean it is usually on its hard disk, but may in some
setups be one a disk mounted over the network using (for example) NFS.

The actual location of this newsrc file can be set in the Setup
Configuration screen.

However it is also possible to _read_ Usenet News over an IMAP connection
(instead on an NNTP one).  This assumes, of course, that your IMAP server
machine has been configured to allow this!

If you _do_ elect to use an IMAP connection to read News then the IMAP
server itself maintains the newsrc file, rather than your local machine
upon which your client software is running.  This therefore means the same
newsrc file gets used (by the IMAP server) regardless of the client
software you are using or where it is running from.

To set this up on your client you need to:

	*  Set up the nntp-server variable as usual (so that you can
	   _post_ News articles).

	*  Set up the news-collections variable to a value along the
	   lines of:
		Usenet News	*{news.york.ac.uk}[]

Because this latter omits the "/nntp" protocol specifier it defaults to
use an IMAP connection to the host.

However, as I said before, this will only work if your IMAP server has
been configured to provide access to Usenet News.

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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