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 ====== NNTP Service ====== ====== NNTP Service ======
  
-TODO+Synchronet Service for the Network News Transfer Protocol (RFC977 and RFC3977), the protocol of [[network:USENET]]. 
 + 
 +===== Example configurations ===== 
 + 
 +In ''[[dir:ctrl]]/[[config:services.ini]]'': 
 + 
 +<file> 
 +[NNTP] 
 +Port = 119 
 +MaxClients = 10 
 +Options = 0 
 +Command = nntpservice.js -f 
 +</file> 
 + 
 +<file> 
 +[NNTPS] 
 +Port = 563 
 +Options = TLS 
 +Command = nntpservice.js -f 
 +</file> 
 + 
 + 
 +Or in [[monitor:SBBSCTRL]]->Services->Configure: 
 + 
 +{{:service:sbbsctrlservices.config.png?300|}} 
 + 
 +{{:service:sbbsctrl.nntps_service.png?300|}} 
 + 
 +==== Available Option Flags ==== 
 +^ Option             ^ Description                                                                 ^ 
 +| ''NO_HOST_LOOKUP'' | Do not resolve hostnames (via DNS) for connected clients                    | 
 +| ''TLS''            | Use Transaction Layer Security (TLS) encryption for connected clients       | 
 +| ''FULL_ACCEPT''    | Accept and immediately close connections when server is full                | 
 + 
 +==== Available Command-line options ==== 
 + 
 +^ Option        ^ Description                                                                      ^ 
 +| ''-d''        | debug log output enable                                                          |  
 +| ''-f''        | filter bogus client IP addresses (after 10 bad commands received)                |   
 +| ''-na''       | no anonymous logins (requires valid user authentication)                         |  
 +| ''-mail''     | expose non-Guest user's sent/received email in "mail" newsgroup                  |  
 +| ''-auto''     | automatic login based on IP address (no password necessary)                      |  
 +| ''-nolimit''  | unlimited message lengths (allow posted messages to exceed user limits)          |   
 +| ''-notag''    | do not append tear/tagline to exported local messages for Q-restricted accounts  |  
 +| ''-ascii''    | convert ex-ASCII characters to ASCII equivalents during export                   |    
 +| ''-utf8''     | convert ex-ASCII characters to UTF-8 equivalents during export                   |    
 + 
 +===== Tested clients ===== 
 + 
 +  * Microsoft Outlook Express 6 
 +  * Netscape Communicator 4.77 
 +  * Xnews 5.04.25 
 +  * Mozilla 1.1 (Requires -auto, and a prior login via other method) 
 + 
 +===== See Also ===== 
 +  * [[module:NewsLink]] 
 +  * [[network:USENET]] 
 + 
 +{{tag>nntp usenet}}

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