AndreasMar 8

Perversity of the day: rnews_imap.

I am getting a bunch of news from usenet via a UUCP connection.
But I do not have a local NNTP server on my host.
I could install leafnode2 and use that, but why bother?

I have a fully functional dovecot IMAP server, why not just store the usenet messages in an IMAP mailbox for reading?

https://github.com/bawuenet/rnews_imap is exactly that. Written in python2.7 for compatibility and able to read gzip'd UUCP batches.

Amazing. 🎉

GitHub - bawuenet/rnews_imap: rnews stub for appending UUCP batches to an IMAP server mailbox.

rnews stub for appending UUCP batches to an IMAP server mailbox. - bawuenet/rnews_imap

GitHub
Show threadEckes 
@ixs or go serverless? :) (local spool). Mozilla NNTP is atrocious anyway… Go tin
Mar 8 at 7:59pmWeb
Show threadAndreasMar 8

@eckes More partial to slrn myself.

But IMAP allows me to read it from the mobile phone as well.

I do not think I ever used Mozilla NNTP? Is that nowadays Thunderbird?

Show threadEckes Mar 8
@ixs yes communicator or thunderbird - still can’t do xrosspost elimination for example