David Smith
Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:18:28 -0700
It was 17 Oct 2006, when sun zoom spark commented: > Hi David ... you have made my day! Always glad to help! <grin> <snip> > Here is some information about the downloads for other subscribers > > The author's website is http://www3.telus.net/public/irelam/ > > "NEWSMAIL provides Newsgroup articles as either a Digest collection, > or as separate messages into the Pegasus Mail NewMail directory. A > user can then select an item of interest and Read, Reply to author, > Print, or Copy-To-Folder any article." > http://www3.telus.net/public/irelam/newsmail.zip (49 kb) A note about Newsmail is that it is possible to run it on a Mercury server -- I run it on mine -- and create a news-to-mail service of one's own, with some limits... > "NEWSPOST provides a method for Pegasus Mail to post articles to > Newsgroups. It can be used to reply to postings downloaded to > Pegasus Mail by my NewsMail application." > http://www3.telus.net/public/irelam/newspost.zip (84 kb) ... and if users also have Pegasus and add Newspost, they could potentially post to newsgroups and be able to reply to newsgroup messages provided via a separate Mercury/Newsmail server like mine. Again, this is what I do. My situation is a bit different, because I have my own Merc server -and- Pegasus. But potentially someone with PMail and Newspost could read from my server and post from Newspost, which sends directly to a Usenet server. > The Pegasus mail download page is http://www.pmail.com/downloads.htm > These downloads are large, for example Pegasus Mail version 4.42 > 32-bit for Windows is 7.1Mb. I don't know that it's necessarily that much larger from a lot of newer email clients, though. Wonder if one could get PMail via email... > So that will be a problem for people using email-only methods. > However, newsmail works as a standalone program. The resulting files > can be read in any text editor -- not as convenient as reading them > in digest format, but the content is all there in the correct order. I seem to recall that on at least some of Martin Ireland's programs, you can request an automatic email delivery of the program. Used to be able to, anyway. Also note that Martin has a program called RSSMail that creates RSS listings that can show up in email -- which I've also gotten (mostly) working off my server. Doesn't work all that well as a server-based program, but it is quite useable as an add-on to Pegasus as it is designed to be. And Martin has an RSS feed from his website showing his latest versions when they're updated. > More when I have fixed newspost ... Martin is currently working on an updated version of Newspost with more batch-processing capabilities -- some of which come from my suggestions (he said humbly). -- David Smith <dbsmith at atbbs.dyndns.org> "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." -- Garrison Keilor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To contribute to the discussion, email to accmail@listserv.aol.com To unsubscribe, email to the *admin* address [EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL as the message body. To get the latest version of the ACCMAIL FAQ, send a blank email to accmail.faq.en `AT` szs.net (replacing `AT` with @ to form a proper email address). ----------------------------------------------------------------------