Gmane seems to be gone

[Chris Green]

Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid>:
> 
> > Does anybody have any idea what it would take to set up a private NNTP
> > server that served articles from a dozen or so IMAP mailboxes?
> >
> > How hard would it be to write something like that in Python?  I've got
> > a pretty good handle on the IMAP end of things, but I've got no clue
> > about the NNTP server end.
> 
> I bet NNTP (<URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3977>) is a simpler
> beast than IMAP.
> 
> Maybe Twisted has some support for it, I don't know, but writing a
> server from scratch wouldn't be too bad, either.
> 
> However, the simplest way forward might be to just take an off-the-shelf
> NNTP server and write a IMAP/NNTP gateway bot that acts as a client
> bothways. Then you can use Python's nntplib and imaplib.
> 
Leafnode might be a good place to start.

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Chris Green
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