* NNML-1.15 (A tiny nntp-server) on CPAN rsn.
@ 1996-10-01 16:16 Mark Boyns
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From: Mark Boyns @ 1996-10-01 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
This looks interesting.
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From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: NNML-1.15 (A tiny nntp-server) on CPAN rsn.
Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.misc
Date: 1 Oct 1996 12:45:26 GMT
Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany
Message-ID: <52r3p6$a2p@nadine.teleport.com>
o Ever wanted to have your own little NNTP-Server for communicating with
your colleagues instead of mailing lists?
o You read mail and news on different systems and want to synchronize
your mail folders over slow links.
o You don't have NNTP at home or want to read and post off-line?
If you checked any of the above, NNML is for you.
It is tested with perl5.003_05 but it may work with any version which
is able to compile IO-1.12. This means you _need_ IO-1.12 (Thanks to
Graham Barr!). If you want to use the nnmirror facility you should
also fetch NNTPClient.
DISCLAIMER:
This is definitive _alpha_ software. I wrote it Saturday and use it
since then without problems. But I can give no guarantee that it does
not destroy your complete file system after posting it to c.l.p.m ;-).
You should find NNML-1.15 really soon now on CPAN:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/ULPFR/
Ulrich Pfeifer
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NAME
NNML::Server - a minimal NNTP server
SYNOPSIS
perl -MNNML::Server -e server
DESCRIPTION
NNML::Server server implements a minimal NNTP server. It is
(hope-) fully conformant to rfc977. In addition the commands
XOVER and AUTHINFO are implemented.
Supported commands:
ARTICLE, AUTHINFO, BODY, GROUP, HEAD, HELP, IHAVE, LAST, LIST,
MODE, NEWGROUPS, NEWNEWS, NEXT, POST, QUIT, SLAVE, STAT, XOVER
The main reason for writing this was to synchronize my mail
directories across different hosts. The Mail directories are
MH-Style with a .overview file in each folder and an active
file in the base directory. These are maintained by the
Emacs Gnus backend NNML. To get started, you can
generate/update this files using the overview program. Upon
POST and IHAVE commands this files will also be updated.
To start from scratch use:
touch /tmp/active;
perl -MNNML::Server -e 'server(base => "/tmp", port => 3000)'
To export your mh-Mail use:
perl overview -base ~/Mail
perl -MNNML::Server -e 'server(base => "$ENV{HOME}/Mail", port => 3000)'
The command POST and IHAVE honour the Newsgroups header if
not overwritten by the X-Nnml-Groups header. Articles will
contain an appropriate X-Nnml-Groups header when retrieved
by message-id.
AUTHORIZATION
To enable access restrictions use:
perl -MNNML::Auth -e "NNML::Auth::add_user($ENV{LOGNAME}, 'LovePerl', \
'read', 'write', 'admin')"
If base/passwd exists, three levels of authorization are
recognized:
admin Users with permission admin may shut down the
server using SHUT. Also these users may create
new groups simply by posting to them.
write Users with permission write may use the POST and
IHAVE commands.
read All other commands require the read permission.
BUGS
The server handles multiple connections in a single thread.
So a hung POST or IHAVE would block all connections.
Therfore a post request is interrupted if the server could
not read any bytes for 10 seconds. The Client is notified
by message 441. If the client continues to send the article,
it is interpreted by the command loop.
SEE ALSO
The overview(1) and nnmirror(1) manpages.
AUTHOR
Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
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