This release comes with the GoodNews™ NNTP Server! Read those docs for details!
TRIAL versions of the NNTP/FTP Client and GoodNews™ Server are day-limited. The TRIAL versions will not work on Sunday! If you are a registered MaxTF user, contact me for an update - glen_stewart@associate.com
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You must now add the following script additons (see NNTP/FTP Client docs for details):
j). ACME Script Widgets (in AcmeScriptWidgets251.sit)
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The Client now does logging (and maintains the log size at 32k) of PPP failures and news posting problems. In addition, it will POST messages of unlimited size. Messages imported from mailing lists are no longer restricted to 32k - Mail Server should handle the large size in its own way.
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Implemented various tweaks and speedups wherever possible, thus the reason for the ACME addition.
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With the advent of Mail Server 2.0b19 and higher, NNTP Usenet is no longer required. Keep using it from your old MaxTF release if you don't have the new Mail Server. For this release though, I have removed NNTP Usenet from the suite of utilities, requiring these changes to your setup when you begin running the new Mail Server:
1. Launch NNTP Sucker with the command key held down. Select Setup from the File menu, and click in the "Parser to launch" field. Click the Cancel button when presented with a file selection dialog - this will clear this field. You no longer need a parser (what was my NNTP Usenet program) with new Mail Server beta releases.
2. With NNTP Sucker still open, click on the Spool Path field, and change the spool path to the Import folder for that particlular gateway instead of the Spool folder you had created per the MaxTF instructions. You can throw the Spool folder and NNTP Usenet away. Now you can quit NNTP Sucker.
These changes do not make you dependant on NNTP Sucker's news posting features, which I found to be less robust than the features I was able to put in NNTP/FTP Client. There are no other changes required for your system. Enjoy the extra speed and added simplicity gained by this update, and send a kind "thank-you" to Chris Silverberg for adding Rnews import functions to the RFC822 gateway!