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newsd

newsd -- Standalone Local NNTP News Server

WHAT IS IT

Newsd is a standalone local NNTP news server for private newsgroup serving on a single server. It is useful for serving private newsgroup(s) to an intranet or the Internet and can act as a simple mail gateway, however it does not interface with other news servers and cannot manage distributed news feeds, i.e. Usenet news.

LICENSING

Newsd comes with complete free source code. Newsd is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. See the file "LICENSE" for more info.

BUILD INSTRUCTIONS

Run the following commands to build the newsd software:

./configure --prefix=/some/directory
make

Once the software is compiled, use the following command to install it:

make install

DOCUMENTATION

See the "newsd" and "newsd.conf" man pages for more information.

FEATURES

Newsd provides simple file-based system administration. No satellite binaries or scripts are needed to install, configure, administer, or maintain newsd.

LIMITATIONS

Refer to the "newsd" man page.

REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs via github:

https://github.com/wwade/newsd