Cyrus and Usenet

From: kael (no email)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2005 - 20:28:04 EST

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    Hello,

    I'd like to export newsgroups into shared mailboxes with Cyrus-NNTP but
    several points of imapd.conf and nntpd.conf documentation appear
    obscur to me - as a new Linux user.

    cyrus-imapd-nntpd has been installed via apt on Fedora 2.

    I wish to use the _push_ method, as described in
    http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/download/imapd/install-netnews.html.

    I've managed cyrus.conf (telnet localhost 119 works) and set the
    following lines in imapd.conf - but there are some things I don't
    understand:

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
    partition-default: /var/spool/imap

    partition-news: /var/spool/imap/news
    # What is the precise purpose of this directory ?

    newsspool: /var/spool/imap/news/articles
    # What is the purpose of this directory regarding nntpd ?
    # More generally, how to manage both directories ?

    # According to http://howtos.linux.com/guides/nag2/x-087-2-nntp.nntpd.shtml:
    # "To temporarily store any incoming articles, nntpd also needs a .tmp
    directory in your news spool.
    # You should create it using the following
    commands:
    # mkdir /var/spool/news/.tmp
    # chown news.news /var/spool/news/.tmp ..."
    # How to manage it regarding imapd.conf ?

    newsprefix: usenet
    unixhierarchysep: yes
    altnamespace: yes
    # I'd like to create top-level mailboxes comparable to
    <imap://cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu> ones.
    # How to manage altnamespace and more specially newsprefix and the user
    'Usenet'to create something like this:

    INBOX
    Foo1
         |_etc
    Foo2
         |_etc
    Usenet # Usenet would appear in bold and italic in Thunderbird
           |_ comp.mail.imap # Usenet/comp.mail.imap
    Other users

    newspeer: news.mozilla.org news-out.example.com
    # One of my peer asks to "open" - its server names are:
    # Send To: news-in.example.com
    # Accept From: news-out.example.com
    # Should both names be written on the newspeer line ?
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    I don't know how to use nntpd regarding Cyrus. When creating a
    mailbox, the connection fails:
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
    localhost.localdomain> sam usenet.netscape.public.mozilla.calendar
    anyone lrs
    Relais brisé (pipe)
    ------------------------------------------------------------------

    And nothing happens when running cyrfetchnews.

    Basically I don't know how to get the feed and hope you could enlighten me.

    Thank you very much.

    -- 
    kael
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