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Article #3: Newsd 1.44rc4 Available
Created at 13:24 Dec 07, 2004 by mike
Last modified at 13:25 Dec 07, 2004 by mike
Newsd 1.44rc4 fixes some article parsing problems, renames some configuration directives to be consistent with Apache, and fixes a problem with the -mailgateway option.
The fourth release candidate for Newsd 1.44 is now available for download from:
http://www.easysw.com/~mike/newsd/
Newsd 1.44rc4 fixes some article parsing problems, renames some configuration directives to be consistent with Apache, and fixes a problem with the -mailgateway option.
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.
Changes in 1.44rc4:
- Improved the 'HELP' command messages
- Article key/val parser now uses strspn()
- Added XOVER field sanitizer to prevent \t being mistaken as an xover field delimiter
- Converted Article class to use STL strings internally
- Fixed problem with multiline header parsing, cited RFC's
- Fixed bug w/first msg of new group not showing up: NewGroup() creates .info file via BuildInfo(), first msg starts msg count at 1
- Documented error handling for methods returning errors
- Added article start/end range checks to HEAD/BODY/ARTICLE/STAT, eg. '423 No Such Article In Group'
- Server class uses new Overview() method with string return type.
- Various important fixes to -mailgateway; removed redundant header loop (looks like a diff error crept in), missing \n at end of Errors-To:, and added error detection + debug output for popen()/pclose()
- Fixed NULL checks for char* oriented messageid/from
- Changed the NewsHostname and LogFile configuration directives to ServerName and ErrorLog, respectively to match Apache.