Arthur Marsh wrote:
After finding out that Thunderbird is unlikely to support newsgroup filtering based on cross-posts (something that I did at the news-server level with INN back in 1993), I looked at what other newsreaders were available for Debian unstable. I aborted installing knews because it appeared to only support one news-server (I currently use 3 different servers), and installed pan. Although pan is able to do rudimentary filtering based on cross-posting, it still appears "dumbed-down" and some options that I'd like to pick global defaults for seem to only be able to be set per newsgroup. The biggest issue I have with pan seem to be: I can't find out how to view attachments from within pan. Does anyone have suggestions on a good newsreader package with support for multiple nntp servers and filtering? I'd prefer gui but did start out with tin (-:. Arthur.
If you can't find a newsreader that does everything you want on it's own, you might want to take a look at Leafnode: http://www.leafnode.org/
It's an NNTP server you can run locally. You can set it up to pull from all three of the remote servers you use, and do all your filtering within Leafnode. That will free you up to use any gui newsreader you want, regardless of how dumb. :-) You can focus on finding one with an interface you like, without having to worry about whether it can handle multiple servers, do server-side filtering, etc.
I think the original idea of Leafnode was to provide people who used "online" newreaders with "offline" newsreading capability, but it does more than that. Basically, Leafnode is to newsreaders as an MTA/MDA is to an email client. Personally, I think Thunderbird works well in combination with Leafnode.
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