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Newsreader written with FPC/Lazarus?

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Graeme Geldenhuys

Hi,

Anybody know of such a project?

I'm looking for a Linux newsreader client. I am getting sick of Thunderbird not being able to search "offline" downloaded newsgroups!! It just returns rubbish results NOT related to what I searched for. I also tried PAN, but it has no 'search in message bode' feature, which is no good.

So I'm think, maybe the only alternative is to roll my own newsreader as was done with XanaNews (which unfortunately doesn't run under WINE). At least that way, I can add my own features as needed.

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- Graeme -

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Graeme Geldenhuys
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Graeme Geldenhuys wrote
I'm looking for a Linux newsreader client. I am getting sick of Thunderbird not being able to search "offline" downloaded newsgroups!!

And before anybody suggests KNode, well... I think that interface was design by an alien! I can't even figure out down to download articles for offline reading. I also can't see any 'search message body' feature etc...

If I have to use a text mode news reader, I will. It just needs to handle attachments, offline reading and search message bodies...

How difficult can it be to find a decent newsreader client under Linux??? Yes I'm desperate and pissed off. :-) So if you even know about a descent Windows newsreader client that does run under Wine, I'll even try that.

If not, I'm starting a new project on SourceForge - implementing a newsreader client using Lazarus and Free Pascal!

Regards,
- Graeme -

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http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

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zeljko
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Graeme Geldenhuys wrote 13 lines
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > I'm looking for a Linux newsreader client. I am getting sick of > Thunderbird not being able to search "offline" downloaded newsgroups!! And before anybody suggests KNode, well... I think that interface was design by an alien! I can't even figure out down to download articles for offline reading. I also can't see any 'search message body' feature etc... If I have to use a text mode news reader, I will. It just needs to handle attachments, offline reading and search message bodies...

slrn .... man slrn :)

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Reenen Laurie
to Graeme Geldenhuys: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys And before anybody suggests KNode,…

I'd use it. I have a couple of newsgroups that are not kept on google groups that I'd like to follow. At the moment I haven't done a lot of searching for software.

I do think that newsgroups have lost a bit of the charm it had ages ago, but some projects are still using them, so it could be very useful.

Regards,
-Reenen

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote 33 lines
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > I'm looking for a Linux newsreader client. I am getting sick of > Thunderbird not being able to search "offline" downloaded newsgroups!! And before anybody suggests KNode, well... I think that interface was design by an alien! I can't even figure out down to download articles for offline reading. I also can't see any 'search message body' feature etc... If I have to use a text mode news reader, I will. It just needs to handle attachments, offline reading and search message bodies... How difficult can it be to find a decent newsreader client under Linux??? Yes I'm desperate and pissed off. :-) So if you even know about a descent Windows newsreader client that does run under Wine, I'll even try that. If not, I'm starting a new project on SourceForge - implementing a newsreader client using Lazarus and Free Pascal! Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
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Graeme Geldenhuys
to zeljko: slrn .... man slrn :)
zeljko wrote
> If I have to use a text mode news reader, I will. It just needs to > handle attachments, offline reading and search message bodies... slrn .... man slrn :)

I'm actually busy trying it now.... I see it's got a 'slrnpull' which download articles for offline viewing. Now lets hope it has decent searching (article bodies)... ;-)

Regards,
- Graeme -

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http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

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zeljko
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Graeme Geldenhuys wrote 9 lines
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:17 PM, zeljko wrote: >> If I have to use a text mode news reader, I will. It just needs to >> handle attachments, offline reading and search message bodies... > > slrn .... man slrn :) I'm actually busy trying it now.... I see it's got a 'slrnpull' which download articles for offline viewing. Now lets hope it has decent searching (article bodies)... ;-)

slrn is a master of universe ;)

zeljko

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