There are a lot of similarities between NNTP and IMAP/SMTP, which make relying on the mod_mail
module a very logical choice to take care of many things for us.
Other mail servers have adopted the same philosophy, see https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/reference/admin/nntp.html
- Rewrite to use maildirs (with dependency on
mod_mail
)
- use index file for each newsgroup to avoid directory traversals
- Somehow be able to "override" the UIDs to whatever the newsgroup article number is
- easily be able to provide (local) IMAP to NNTP proxy functionality, making newsgroup articles easily accessible from webmail programs
Improve:
- NNTP synchronization between multiple servers
- Add ability to relay all outgoing newsgroup messages to another NNTP server (sort of like the concept of message submission for NNTP)
- Mechanism for "post only" NNTP peering? Might want to be able to post directly to Usenet/newsgroups but not receive all incoming articles
- Add framework for sender authentication. Not part of NNTP, but perhaps could turn into a new RFC or standards.
See email exchanges with Phil Lapsley for more notes and ideas on this subject.
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