Re: [Evolution-hackers] Newsgroup lists

[Meilof <meilof myrealbox com>]

Not Zed wrote:

> Would NEWGROUPS be enough for this?  it would be hidden inside 
> get_folder_info.
>
> A force reload could be a possibility if its absolutely required.
>
> Its absolutely necessary to save the list anyway, for the folder list 
> startup, and for offline mode.

I think NEWGROUPS should be enough, provided the news server supports 
it. Problem is, not all news servers have NEWGROUPS, so I cannot assume 
all news server support it (for example, the test news server I set up 
on my local box, a standard InterNetNews setup, doesn't, but my ISP's 
server does). And for NEWGROUPS, one would probably also need support 
for the DATE command (to know the date of the server so you know what 
date argument to give to NEWGROUPS), which is an extension to NNTP. I 
have no idea how common support for NEWGROUPS/DATE is though, perhaps 
this is not a problem.

A patch to the subscription editor would I think be fairly easy, it 
would just need to pass a flag along if it gets the list due to a 
"Refresh" operation. I guess this would be the nicest way, from a NNTP 
point of view, to do it.


Meilof
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