ANNOUNCE mimelib 0.3

I've finally moved mimelib development to SourceForge, and uploaded version 0.3.
mimelib is yet another MIME and RFC 2822 <wink> message handling library for Python. It differs from older modules and packages by providing an abstract MIME object model separate from parsing and generating the plain text representations. There is a parser class to convert from plain text to the model, and a generator class to output plain text from the model. Along the way, the object model can be manipulated in very Pythonic ways (or you can generate an entire model from scratch using the provided message classes).
mimelib is compatible with Python 2.x. My goal is to solidify the API and implementation enough for inclusion of mimelib in Python 2.2. mimelib 0.3 is required for the current CVS snapshot of Mailman 2.1 alpha.
For online documentation, see
http://mimelib.sourceforge.net
For project information, see
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mimelib
For downloading mimelib-0.3.tar.gz, see
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25568
And of course, there's a mailing list for developers
Postings: mimelib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subscribe: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mimelib-devel
Enjoy, -Barry

I'm looking to utilize Mailman's Mail-News and News-Mail gateways, but I'm really not interested in serving any other newsgroups, and I don't particularly need to push these news articles upstream to anyplace. (And I don't want to worry about propogation to subscribers sites, or net-wide spam, so I think I'd like to serve it all from our box.)
Does anyone have a (free?) unix based nntp server they'd suggest that can be configured to be stand-alone (no pushing upstream or downstream), and would handle 10's of local newsgroups and ~1000 subscribers reasonably well?
We're running a FreeBSD box if that matters.
-Dale Newfield webmaster@wunderland.com

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:03:05AM -0400, Dale Newfield wrote:
You can try both INN (http://www.isc.org/inn.html) and Diablo (http://www.openusenet.org/diablo/), though I'd suggest using Diablo. Both are free, but they aren't terribly easy to configure. You can definately tell them not to feed up/downstream, though. Diablo has a very active userbase, but INN's older and probably still larger. You're likely to find good FAQs and HOWTO's for both.
We're running a FreeBSD box if that matters.
Well, at XS4ALL we run a news setup of 10+ machines, all running Diablo on FreeBSD, and they do it very, very well.
-- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>
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I'm looking to utilize Mailman's Mail-News and News-Mail gateways, but I'm really not interested in serving any other newsgroups, and I don't particularly need to push these news articles upstream to anyplace. (And I don't want to worry about propogation to subscribers sites, or net-wide spam, so I think I'd like to serve it all from our box.)
Does anyone have a (free?) unix based nntp server they'd suggest that can be configured to be stand-alone (no pushing upstream or downstream), and would handle 10's of local newsgroups and ~1000 subscribers reasonably well?
We're running a FreeBSD box if that matters.
-Dale Newfield webmaster@wunderland.com

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:03:05AM -0400, Dale Newfield wrote:
You can try both INN (http://www.isc.org/inn.html) and Diablo (http://www.openusenet.org/diablo/), though I'd suggest using Diablo. Both are free, but they aren't terribly easy to configure. You can definately tell them not to feed up/downstream, though. Diablo has a very active userbase, but INN's older and probably still larger. You're likely to find good FAQs and HOWTO's for both.
We're running a FreeBSD box if that matters.
Well, at XS4ALL we run a news setup of 10+ machines, all running Diablo on FreeBSD, and they do it very, very well.
-- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>
Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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barry@digicool.com
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Dale Newfield
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Thomas Wouters