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NNTP Service

Synchronet Service for the Network News Transfer Protocol (RFC 977)

Example configuration

In ctrl/services.ini:

  [NNTP]
  Port = 119
  MaxClients = 10
  Options = 0
  Command = nntpservice.js -f
Available Command-line options

-d debug output

-f filter bogus client IP addresses

-na no anonymous logins (requires user authentication)

-mail expose entire mail database as newsgroup to Sysops

-auto automatic login based on IP address (no password necessary)

-nolimit unlimited message lengths

-notag do not append tear/tagline to local messages for Q-rest accounts

-ascii convert ex-ASCII to ASCII

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