setup fedora-list in mail client. pls help
Nicholas Yau
nicholasykp at gmail.com
Tue May 20 08:00:44 UTC 2008
Thanks tim, it seems like redhat no longer providing the nntp, ok thanks. :)
Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 15:03 +0800, Nicholas Yau wrote:
>
>> i want to read and find the news in mozilla instead of looking in
>> google.
>>
>
> This makes little sense. Mozilla is a program, Google is a service.
> The Mozilla suite handles HTTP, NNTP, and mail, at least. There's
> several ways that you can use this list in Mozilla, none of which has to
> involve Google.
>
>
>> last time i was able to read it while i was using redhat distro 5-6
>> years ago, i just signed up fedora lately since long time never get in
>> touch with fedora.
>>
>> you have any idea?
>>
>> p/s fedora-list is one of the group. example : nntp / news .
>> domain.com
>>
>
> I can only guess at what you're asking about, but here goes, one of them
> ought to be what you want...
>
> This list can be read through a webserver (hosted by Red Hat). You can
> use just about any web browsing program that you like (Mozilla, Firefox,
> Opera, etc.), and browse through it starting from here:
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Despite what the
> message list signature says, it's not just for unsubscribing.
>
> You can have this list sent to you as e-mails, and read it through just
> about any mail program that you want to (by setting appropriate options
> through that web address I just mentioned). That mail program could be
> Mozilla, Thunderbird, Evolution, or even one of the webmail services
> like Google's gmail, Yahoo mail, etc.
>
> Gmane provides a news feed that you can access using NNTP and HTTP. The
> HTTP access: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
> And the NNTP would be news.gmane.org as the server name, then look in
> the list of groups for: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
>
> Using the list in your mail client might be the easiest way of
> participating, when it comes to replying. But news might be easiest for
> reading (you can quickly see a list of what's available, and only bother
> to download what you want to look at). Last time I tried gmane, it
> wasn't too brilliant for replying to postings.
>
>
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