[Mailman-Developers] NNTP Archive - final report

[Alexander Sulfrian]

At Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:53:36 -0400,
Barry Warsaw wrote:
> Thanks for the update Alex.  I can confirm that Thunderbird on Ubuntu 12.10
> can read the one newsgroup that has about 88 messages in it.  Claws cannot
> though - it thinks the newsgroup is empty.

Oh I see... claws-mail requires support for the XOVER extension of the
NNTP protocol. This extension is not supported currently and all other
newsreader I tested (thunderbird, snrl) fall back to the useage of the
classical HEAD command to receive the information. I will see, if I
could fix that...

> I only tried port 119.
> 
> I have not had a chance to look at the code yet.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Barry

Alex
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