Halo, Has anyones had experiences with feeding usenet into imap folders, we like to have some group for all user, any problem with message limit? We only want the text newsgroups?
On 09/11/2014 07:21 AM, Edwardo Garcia wrote:> Has anyones had experiences with feeding usenet into imap folders, we > like to have some group for all user, any problem with message limit? > We only want the text newsgroups?I haven't, but I'm intrigued by the concept. Please summarize back here if you make any progress on this. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3 New Kensington, PA
On 9/11/14, Edwardo Garcia <wdgarc88 at gmail.com> wrote:> Halo, > > Has anyones had experiences with feeding usenet into imap folders, we > like to have some group for all user, any problem with message limit? > We only want the text newsgroups? >Thats crazy! Depending on your news feed that will get huge over time, and if you try get a back feed of existing posts, thats even crazier, my upstream feeds me over FORTY THOUSAND text newsgroups. thats unrealistic to feed into imap, just advertise your news server, or if you dont have one, set up inn on a spare machine, hell for a couple thousand users, a junk box (ie: even a 10yo 32bit desktop PC with half a gig of ram will run nicely) starting out you wont need terabytes of disk space, but heck, a 1TB sata drive is cheap enough so if it fails its no bother, a 1TB scsi, might be a different story LOL (but of course is much much more reliable than sata). There are a few places around who will give you a free feed if you dont have one, and if you get stuck ask me off list, I get one off someone who used to be on this list, though he's likely forgotten that I do as it was a couple years ago he connected us up :-)
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:21:16PM +1000, Edwardo Garcia wrote:> Has anyones had experiences with feeding usenet into imap folders, we > like to have some group for all user, any problem with message limit? > We only want the text newsgroups?I won't do that. While Usenet and e-mail _do_ look reasonably similiar, they aren't. In 20 years of usenet, I have not seen a single gateway between e-mail and Usenet that worked acceptably. Challenges like the per-user "read" status, unique message-IDs and crosspostings are excruciatingly hard to solve. Running INN is much easier. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600420