Thanks to Peter and Olly for their quick replies to my queries.


Peter wrote:
> 
> POP3 is possible with the popclient set, but for outgoing mails you have to 
> configure sendmail because popclient doesn't handle this.
> 
> Offline reading of news is possible if you fetch and save the intresting 
> groups with tin:
> 
> Offline reading then is possible e.g. with exmh.
> 
> Sadly I know no way for offline posting of news. I guess for this you have to 
> set up a complete newsserver on your machine :(

So where do I find the popclient, tin and exmh?

Are they available as sets for RiscBSD or do I have to get the sources and
recompile them for RiscBSD?


Olly wrote:

>In article <19970804.163339.27@imm.nethotel.dk>, imm@nethotel.dk wrote:
>>If I try to post a news-message from knews, then it get posted but immediately
>>after knews terminates with the following error:
>>
>>Error: Cannot perform realloc
>>
>>There is not core-dump. What can I do to avoid this error?
>
>This may be a bug in knews.  
>
>Anyway, you'll have to look at the code, or report it to the author.

Ok, I will do that when I have the mail/news systems up and running 
(If I can find the time :-)

>For news, INN is probably overkill for a small personal spool.  Someone
>suggested tin, but this doesn't allow you to queue outgoing news while
>offline.  The newsreader slrn <URL:ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/slrn/>
>allows downloading of news and offline posting using slrnpull (included in
>the standard distribution).  I wrote some of it, so I'm probably biased.

Anyway, where do I find INN?
And is it available as a RiscBSD set ore only as source?

When saying "included in the standard distribution" about slrnpull (and slrn?),
do you mean that slrnpull is included with slrn, or slrn and slrnpull are
included with the standard RiscBSD sets? 
(slrn and slrnpull are not included in my release 1.2 of RiscBSD
(from ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk IIRC)).

Olly, you also write a longer messsage about newsservers and the methods
used to transfer news with. It sounds like you are quite an authority
about the subject.

Do you know if the RiscOS newsfetcher !FreeNews is a "regular" newsfetcher
or of the pulling/sucking type?


Best regards
-- 
Ib-Michael Martinsen
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