Subject: Re: 4.0 feature request

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 13:21:05 -0700

On 1 Jul 1997, Mike Robinson wrote:

> Am I missing something?  Can I somehow get the imap daemon to proxy NNTP requests?  I 
> mean, can I read news through Netscape or FreeAgent or something using the UW imapd????
> 

I haven't tried it with the other clients, but with Pine you can set

	news-collections={imapserver.domain}{newsserver.domain/nntp}[]

to have your news proxied by imapserver.domain.  Your .newsrc file
will be stored on imapserver.

Note:  You need to be running a quite recent version of the IMAP4 UW
imapd for this to work properly.  Older versions of the UW imapd
didn't quite work correctly.  You can get the current server from:

	ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.tar.Z

Good luck!

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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 30 Jun 1997 21:20:22 GMT

[email-masked] (Marc Roger):
> I would find a centralized .newsrc file very interesting too.
> Could it be implemented in slrn ?

Yes.

Sven

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