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    From Lars van Maanen@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 28 17:04:22 2022
    I am looking for a way to receive new posts in newsgroups as emails.

    I do already receive rss feeds and email from external accounts on my
    mail server, using rss2email and fetchmail, respectively.

    Is there a program or configuration to achieve the same with usenet
    posts?

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Lars van Maanen on Mon Mar 28 13:23:18 2022
    On 3/28/22 5:04 PM, Lars van Maanen wrote:
    I am looking for a way to receive new posts in newsgroups as emails.
    ...
    Is there a program or configuration to achieve the same with usenet
    posts?

    The two things that come to mind are INN's news-to-email gateway and
    Mailman's NNTP gateway.



    --
    Grant. . . .
    unix || die

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  • From Urs =?UTF-8?Q?Jan=C3=9Fen?=@21:1/5 to Lars van Maanen on Mon Mar 28 21:12:03 2022
    Lars van Maanen wrote:
    Is there a program or configuration to achieve the same with usenet
    posts?

    tin -N (likely combined with -Qcf)

    | -c Create/update index files for every group in ${TIN_HOME‐ | DIR:-"$HOME"}/.newsrc or file specified by the ''-f'' op‐ | tion and mark all articles as read.
    | -f file Use the specified file of subscribed to newsgroups in place
    | of ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.newsrc.
    | -N Mail unread articles to yourself for later reading. For
    | more information read section "AUTOMATIC MAILING AND SAVING
    | NEW NEWS".
    | -Q Quick start. Start tin as quickly as possible. Currently
    | this is equivalent to ''-nqd''.

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  • From meff@21:1/5 to Lars van Maanen on Tue Mar 29 06:29:31 2022
    On 2022-03-28, Lars van Maanen <[email protected]> wrote:
    I am looking for a way to receive new posts in newsgroups as emails.

    I do already receive rss feeds and email from external accounts on my
    mail server, using rss2email and fetchmail, respectively.

    Is there a program or configuration to achieve the same with usenet
    posts?

    You can have slrn save articles as maildir messages, but I'm not sure
    if that's automatic-enough for what you're looking for. The email
    gateways suggested might be better.

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  • From Lars van Maanen@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Mar 29 10:48:48 2022
    On 2022-03-28, Urs Janßen <[email protected]> wrote:
    Lars van Maanen wrote:
    Is there a program or configuration to achieve the same with usenet
    posts?

    tin -N (likely combined with -Qcf)

    | -c Create/update index files for every group in ${TIN_HOME‐ >| DIR:-"$HOME"}/.newsrc or file specified by the ''-f'' op‐ >| tion and mark all articles as read.
    | -f file Use the specified file of subscribed to newsgroups in place >| of ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.newsrc.
    | -N Mail unread articles to yourself for later reading. For >| more information read section "AUTOMATIC MAILING AND SAVING >| NEW NEWS".
    | -Q Quick start. Start tin as quickly as possible. Currently >| this is equivalent to ''-nqd''.

    Thanks! This works like a charm.

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