Re: [Evolution] evo and news

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 19:12 -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
> What is the current state of the news or nntp plugin for evolution?  I'm
> using Ubuntu 8.04-3 and it does not seem to be installed for some
> reason.

It's not a plugin. Evo has this built-in. Create a new account and
select NNTP as the server type.

> Is it better to read gmane with a real news reader and not put evo
> though the pain.

Possibly. I'm not a big NetNews user. Some people have complained about
Evo's handling of giant folders, which are typical of popular
newsgroups.

poc