I'm planning to set up news/forum server (on Gentoo) which will be available with nntp and http protocols. I configured inn as pure nntp server - Inn - in the past on other server, and it's working well. As far as I know, there is no better alternative for Inn(?). On the "news/forum server" I don't have to use Inn, if there will be some better nntp/http software.
I know, that it's possible to use news<->www gateway and Inn, but I don't have any experience in forum and "news<->www" software. That's why I would like you to ask people who know the subject, for advices, which software to pick out. Assumpsions for "news/forum server": 1. Authentication with login/pass (the same for nntp and http) 2. 'Advanced Searching' feature from WWW 3. Max workload - I suppose it will be about 300 users at the same time 4. Ability to delegation administration task for "news/forum server" software to another (not root) administrator. 5. Local server (don't have to feed other servers, and don't have to get posts from them). I've found Papercut [http://pessoal.org/papercut/], which could enable nntp access to MySQL database from phpBB for example. But... I've found some posts at newsgroups, which tells that Papercut is buggy for now. Anyone use it? I prefer not to use PHP apps (security), but if it will be necessary, soft can be implemented in that language. -- Mariusz -- [email protected] mailing list
