nntp
&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;
The nntp tdeioslave accesses NNTP servers
directly.
This tdeioslave can not be used with servers that do not implement
the GROUP command, including some versions of the
popular INN news server which is often used
by ISPs. It does work with
leafnode, which many people use to keep an
offline cache of news articles on their own hard drive or within their
LAN.
You can use the nntp tdeioslave by typing
nntp://yourserver/groupname into the &konqueror;
URL bar.
If you enter a group name, as above, and the group is available,
you will see the messages stored for that group as icons in
&konqueror;.
Clicking on a message will display it as plain text, including all
headers. This could be useful for debugging a news client to news
server connection, for example, to ensure that your new
leafnode server is working correctly.
If you don't enter a group name, and only the server name, you
will see a list of available groups.
Please be aware that this could take an enormous amount of time, and
will cause a lot of network traffic. Some commercial usenet servers
have 60,000 or more groups available, and doing such a thing may
cause your desktop to freeze.