Re: On the newsreader subject

[Marc Ewing <marc redhat com>]

Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx> writes:
> GNUS has a lot of backends for reading news/mail: some do nntp; some
> do free-agent like newsreading; some let you browser a mbox file as a
> newsgroup (ie, read your mail with this); there is an MH backend; and
> a bunch of other methods.
> 
> I would like to see the GNOME newsreader/mailreader to be based on
> something like this.

> 	- Backends: we probably should reuse the existing GNUS design
> 	  as it is.
> 
> 		- NNTP backend
> 		- mbox backend
> 		- MH backend
> 		- dir backend

Check out the c-client stuff from http://www.imap.org.

It does mbox, imap, nttp, pop3, mh, and a slew of others as well.
It appears to virtualize all these very nicely.  Jay Painter has
started to use the c-client library in balsa.

-Marc