Re: FW: Netscrape news client

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Tue, 08 Jun 1999, you wrote:

>I have to confess zero knowledge of leafnode/fetchmail/sendmail. If I were
>to use leafnode and point NS to localhost, how would posting be handled?
>Would netscape post messages to localhost which would then be forwarded by
>sendmail?

For posting messages there is no need to invoke sendmail (the news protocol has
stuff for posting so it's not a mail thing). They get posted to localhost and
then leafnode takes care of posting them. But sendmail could get involved if you
want to reply individually to someone. But I can see no reason why this is
obligatory. You should just be able to carry on using smtp as now.

I wrote some simple-mided notes about sendmail/fetchmail on my site at
http://www.noether.freeserve.co.uk which might help if you want to suss out how
they work. leafnode is reasonably easy to configure.

atb
Martin
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