Subject: newsreader feature request: centralized .newsrc

From: [email-masked] (Marc Roger)
Date: 24 Jun 1997 14:42:13 GMT

On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:34:04 -0600, in 
news:<[email-masked]>,
Kelly Hall <[email-masked]> wrote in comp.mail.pine:
>But I'd like to beef up the NNTP support a tiny bit, if I could.  I'd like
>a way to store the .newsrc file on the IMAP server instead of on the local
>disk.  This would give me *one* .newsrc file that works on all of my
>environments, which would definately be an improvement over what I've got
>now.

I would find a centralized .newsrc file very interesting too.
Could it be implemented in slrn ?

-- 
Marc Roger

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From: Kelly Hall <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:34:04 -0600

Hi Folks,

I work on a variety of different computers (Unix, NT, Win95) in a variety
of locations (the office, home, on the road with a notebook) and I've
found Pine/IMAP to be an excellent solution for me.  Kudos to the dev
team!

I understand that IMAP wasn't designed to be a file system.  But it seems
to me hacking in support for a .newsrc in some folder would be a big
enough win that overall elegance would improve?

Comments?

Kelly
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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 21:17:05 -0700 (PDT)

Kelly,
There won't be a complete solution to remote access to configuration and 
subscription data in pine 4, but:

The IMAP server that will be available with Pine 4.00 will have the
ability to act as an NNTP client; i.e. it can be an IMAP->news-server
proxy.  This mode of operation will maintain your .newsrc on the IMAP
server.

-teg

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From: [email-masked] (Phil Humpherys)
Date: 23 Jun 1997 20:00:54 GMT

[Posted and mailed]

I'm in total agreement with Kelly (with whom I work).  Mail with pine
rocks.  I would love to use it for news as well, but there are just a
few missing features missing that force me to use another news reader
for now...  In addition to being able to access a remote .newsrc file
via IMAP, I would also like to see some "unseen" information on the
folders list (useful for both mail and news).  Those two features
right there would attach me to pine forever.  :)

> Kelly

-pH

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 16:08:02 -0700

If your IMAP server is running the UW imapd, it should be possible to
get imapd to proxy the connection to your News server, in which case
the .newsrc file will be stored on the IMAP server.  To do this,
configure a news-collection something like

	{imapserver.domain}{newsserver.domain/nntp}[]

Good luck!

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On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Kelly Hall wrote:

> From: Kelly Hall <[email-masked]>
> Newsgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: 4.0 feature request
> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:34:04 -0600
> Organization: Electric Lightwave, Inc.
> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: gate.imall.com
> X-X-Sender: [email-masked]
> 
> Hi Folks,
>