Re: Balsa as a newsreader?!

[Karol Bryd <kbryd int gnu org pl>]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 05:32:01PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >From an implementation point of view, you probably just want to subclass
> LibBalsaMailbox to create LibBalsaMailboxNews (or something), then add the

I'm going to do it in that manner.

> relavent options to the add new mailbox dialogs etc. Possible a new
> subclass of LibBalsaServer might be needed so multiple NNTP mailboxes can
> share connections (I believe this is the eventual plan with IMAP, but not
> done yet.)

Hmm... I think that it's impossible to share the same connection between
multiple nntp mailboxes.

> Personally I am not bothered by the presense of NNTP In balsa, so do it if
> you want...

I will do it, just give me week or two and I'll put the patch somewhere...
I investigated the source code yesterday and it seems to be rather easy to
do. 

Pozdrowienia (Regards)
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