RE: FW: Netscrape news client

[Youngman, James <nospam [at] logica.com>]

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> From: Martin P Holland[SMTP:m.holland [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk]
> Reply To: m.holland [at] shef.ac.uk
> Sent: 08 June 1999 18:50
> To: sheflug [at] listbot.com
> Subject: Re: FW: Netscrape news client
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> sheflug - http://home.freeuk.net/shef.lug
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> 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.
>
You will still need to use sendmail in order to post to moderated groups.

> 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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> http://www.shef.ac.uk/~pm1mph
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