David Chmelik posted on Thu, 21 Jul 2022 07:21:55 -0000 (UTC) as excerpted:
> If you look at Thunderbird Mail & News, it does some things better than > Pan such as collapsible hierarchies. I use almost 1,000 newsgroups so > it'd be helpful if each (sub)category could be collapsible. Pan does have a non-obvious feature that you may or may not find useful in this regard. Certainly I use it here. But it's not exactly what you asked for... The general feature is this: Pan uses the PAN_HOME environmental variable if set, putting its config, data and cache files there (instead of using the unset-default ~/.pan2 or whatever directory, I don't even know for sure what the default is it has been so long). I use that via pan wrapper script, with symlinks from my various chosen categories (pan.bin, pan.text, pan.test, in my case, but set it up with the categories and names you want) to the wrapper script, which then sets the PAN_HOME var appropriately before launching the real pan binary. For config files that I want to share between instances I then use symlinks in each instance home dir to the shared location, so I only have to edit the common instance to have all the configs change. That does cut down the number and variety of subscribed groups in each instance, but it also means if you want to run all of them at once you're multiplying the memory usage (and for long-retention binary groups pan can already be a memory hog!), and if they're all using the same servers, you of course have to set the number of connections for each instance so as not to have the server refusing your additional connections. But it works great if you tend to focus on one instance at a time, or they connect to different servers, or at least if you only run one big binary instance at a time, with the rest lower-resource text instances that you read and reply to messages with, so you aren't maxing out the connections on anyway. Of course it's also great for keeping your "adult" categories separate from the "kids' time" categories, if that's what you want/need to do. Just make the "adult" one a script that you have to invoke from the commandline, maybe after mounting its PAN_HOME using the root password or something or it errors out, while the "kids" one has a menu entry and/or a desktop shortcut for it. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
