Re: [Evolution-hackers] What's is missing in NNTP support

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 07:17, German Poo Caaman~o wrote:
> I've just installed evolution HEAD and it was compiled with NNTP
> support. After playing a little I have some question that I hope
> anyone can answer.
Just keep in mind NNTP support is 'experimental' at best, and completely unsupported at present - i'm pretty impressed it even compiled.

> IMHO, it's very comfortable to read NEWS, but:
> 1. Show all newsgroups from a server (it takes a bit of time, and
>    sometimes there are over 30.000 newsgroups, and the user is 
>    interested in a few ones).
>
>    I guess it could be better has a window with a similar behaviour
>    as folder setting (when you choose working disconnected, where the
>    user choose wich folder would like to read).
>    I don't know where it belongs to.
Yeah, 'subscriptions' hasn't been implemented, it will work the way IMAP subscriptions work.

> 2. Besides an USENET messages is *almost* a mail message, has some
>    differences.  For instance, a message can be answered to the group
>    (follow-up) or replied to the sender (reply).  Is there some kind
>    of communication that allow to add "Reply to group" to contextual
>    menu?
We already have a 'post reply' feature, which might need to be hooked up to work for nntp folders.  Although crosspostings would definitely need more work to support.

> 3. At last, but not least, where can I find a list with missings 
>    things? (protocol or UI)
There really isn't one at present, because of the nature of the code. 

> May someone give some pointers to me?  What should I read?

Try the relevent rfc's and the sourcecode, thats about it so far.

But ... stay tuned, something relevent to this post should be happening soon.

 Michael