news.software.readers

Mike Easter wrote:
> Josh Grams wrote:
>
> User-Agent: G2/
> X-HTTP-UserAgent: Iceweasel/
>
> > Is it possible to read news with my e-mail client? . is there
> > (Linux) NNTP software that will download messages into a Maildir,
> > and present a sendmail interface for posting?
>
> Since I don't really understand this question very well, I'm trying to
> read between the lines here.
>
> You are posting to GG via a linux browser which browser is iceweasel.
> That makes me think that you /might/ think that you need to use a mail
> client because you are behind something that interferes with your access
> to nntp --or-- you might /want/ to use a mail client type of interface
> like sendmail --and/or-- you might have no experience with using a linux
> combined email/nntp client --or-- something else which I haven't
> imagined yet.

Ack! Sorry, didn't mean to cause all this confusion.

Here's what's going on: I just recently started actually following a
couple of newsgroups, and have tried a bunch of newsreaders (pan, tin,
pine, slrn, nn, thunderbird, etc., etc.), and I don't really like any
of
them.

On the other hand, I do have a mail setup that I'm at least
comfortable
with, even if it's not great. getmail to fetch, and ssmtp to send. I
usually use mutt/vim to read/write mail and move it around, and have
a
couple of filters to remove spam or whatever.

So it seemed obvious (to me) that it would make sense to have a
program
which would simply download messages and store them, and one to post,
and then use mutt/vim/whatever to filter and actually read the stuff.
I
wasn't talking about using a re-mailer or whatever, just hooking the
nntp protocol up to my mailbox so I would have proper archival and an
interface that I'm used to.

I can't think of any reason to treat newsgroups differently than an
e-mail list or any other e-mail conversation. Is there something
I'm missing?

--Josh