Re: IMAP NNTP gateway

Hi kyonshi,

Ok, short question: I was thinking of using my raspberry as a mail
server, which made me think: is there a way to get nntp newsgroups via
IMAP? I didn't look too deep into the software yet, but it would be neat
if I could have that as an option.

 I have installed nextcloud on the rpi as a private file storage/talk board. Nextcloud also has an IMAP Mail interface. So I was thinking if I could maybe connect my installation of INN (as yet not configured) to it so I could read news by just going on my nextcloud page.

INN comes with a program named imapfeed which can feed news articles to an IMAP server.
In your newsfeeds file:
     localimapserver\
         :*\
         :Tm:imapfeed!
     imapfeed!\
         :!*\
         :Tc,Wnm*,S16384:/usr/bin/news/imapfeed
and set the corresponding localimapserver entry in your innfeed.conf file.  You'll see in the innfeed.conf manual page the deliver-* parameters which can be used for that entry.
I've never tested imapfeed so I hope it still works fine with current IMAP implementations.  In any case, if you try it, I'll be glad to hear your feedback.
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Julien ÉLIE
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