As some of you know, in november or so I had to replace my old mdv2008.1 
install with Mageia 2, due to a harddrive crash. And that's a good thing, most 
of you will say. :-)=
The major reason I kept the old version was because KNode for KDE3 worked with 
GnuPG signatures, wheras KNode for KDE4 does Not. It is simply not possible to 
verify any signatures, not even my own. [1]
[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192198

So now I need a (graphical) replacement for KNode. However I have two 
requirements for a replacement. If either one is not met, there is no point in 
switching.
1: It must separate multiple usenet servers. (I have 6 usenet servers 
configured)
2: It must support GnuPG signing.

I have spent the last few hours testing both pan and claws-mail.
Pan is not happening. It treats all usenet servers as 1 big server, and doesnt 
really care which server ut uses, as long as any server carries the group. 
This I cannot live with. I need to be able to separate the various usenet 
servers, the same way an email client separates the various pop and imap 
accounts. Knode does this.

Claws-mail looks promising, but I cannot get it to support encryption, let 
alone signing.
The documentation says it need a few core plugins and gpgme. and I can't see 
that I don't have all requirements.
===
$ rpm -qa|grep gpg|grep -v pubkey|sort
lib64gpg-error0-1.10-2.mga2
lib64gpgme11-1.3.1-2.mga2
lib64gpgme++2-4.8.5-1.1.mga2
lib64qgpgme1-4.8.5-1.1.mga2
libgpg-error-common-1.10-2.mga2

$ rpm -qa|grep claws|sort
claws-mail-3.8.1-1.mga2
claws-mail-pgpcore-plugin-3.8.1-1.mga2
claws-mail-pgpinline-plugin-3.8.1-1.mga2
claws-mail-pgpmime-plugin-3.8.1-1.mga2
===

So, does anyone have an idea for a graphical USENET client I can use in Mageia 
2?

I do not ever send out anything that is not signed with gnupg, that includes 
usenet postings. So being able to sign any and all usenet postings is vital for 
me. It verifies for those that care to check that something really was sendt by 
me, and not an imposter. (And I know that some of the readers care.)
(If someone read a usenet posting or email that claim to be sendt from me 
during the last 10 years, I did not send it.)

-- 
Johnny A. Solbu
PGP key ID: 0xFA687324

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