Re: [Evolution] Caching of news items

[Joe Shaw <joe ximian com>]

> > 2. - What about caching the already downloaded/read news items? Is this
> > wished or depreciated by the evolution team?
>
> The new-and-improved NNTP support is thanks to Sam Creasey, not the
> Ximian team. NNTP support is still not a priority for us for 1.0, and
> I'm pretty sure we still plan to ship our 1.0 packages with NNTP support
> turned off. So if you want more NNTP functionality any time soon, you'll
> have to do it yourself.

I know that the IMAP stuff does caching on the local machine... and that
using the disconnected operation stuff is similar... Is there a standard
interface that could be implemented in the NNTP provider that would make
this easier (and avoid the code duplication)?

Joe