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#6 Support for PCRE2?

Matthias Andree — Fri, 27 May 2022 19:03:56 -0000

status: open --> closed
assigned_to: Matthias Andree

#6 Support for PCRE2?

Matthias Andree — Fri, 27 May 2022 19:03:34 -0000

1.12.0 released.

#6 Support for PCRE2?

Matthias Andree — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:39:50 -0000

confirmed & work in progress. Gitlab has a preliminary leafnode 1.12.0 state that contains PCRE2-capable code and further updates and cleanups.

Before release, I would also like to add systemd configuration examples since (x)inetd is going away on the Linux distros, too. Fedora 34 has neither.

Support for PCRE2?

Moritz Mühlenhoff — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 23:34:09 -0000

PCRE is deprecated (there won't be further releases) in favour of PCRE2 and Debian plans to remove the legacy PCRE at some point: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1000110

Unfortunately PCRE->PCRE2 porting documentation is pretty much non-existent, but the issue tracker at least provides some conversion examples: https://github.com/PhilipHazel/pcre2/issues/51

Support for PCRE2?

Moritz Mühlenhoff — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 23:34:09 -0000

Ticket 6 has been modified: Support for PCRE2?
Edited By: Matthias Andree (m-a)
Status updated: 'open' => 'closed'
Owner updated: None => 'm-a'

configure --with-user at runtime

Alex — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 16:20:02 -0000

Right now, as far as I can tell, the user allowed to run leafnode (default 'news') is set during compile. Is it possible, or could it be, to change that user afterwards? This would help us over at Homebrew (see https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/45255#issuecomment-150898912) since we require that builds be sudo-free. We can set --with-user during the build, but we won't be able to provide our own compiled binaries and those will have user set to 'brew' .

Programmatic access to passwords

Dave Abrahams — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:08:56 -0000

Instead of leaving a plaintext password in the config file, it would be awesome if I could specify a command that is expected to print the password on stdout. That way I could store the passwords in my Mac's keychain and they'd be looked up automatically.

should leafnode also provide an imap interface

Ritesh Raj Sarraf — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:13:52 -0000

I am not sure if this is right, but for client side, should leafnode provide an IMAP interface ?

Why am I asking this ?
Most of the times, Email clients are much well maintained than News Readers. :-(

group access control

Matthew Parry — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:12:32 -0000

If I create some local groups and give my friends
access to them, then (as far as I can tell) there is
no way to stop them from reading any other newsgroup
on USENET, thus possibly clogging up my hard-drive.

It would be useful to have some way to control the
output of a LIST NNTP command so that I can restrict
access to groups depending on who is connected.

Perhaps have a NNTP_LIST environment variable that
gives the name of a file containing a glob style
list of newsgroups to be given at a LIST command.
I could then control access through hosts.allow
as with the NOPOSTING env. var.

New Feature Requst: Filtering OUTGOING

Andrzej Filip — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:02:51 -0000

Would it be possible to create hook for filtering
OUTGOING messages?
I would like to remove some headers.

Simple external STDIN>STDOUT program/script would be
sufficient. Some special exit codes may be used to
signal "do not accept post" to leafnode.