Subj : Re: JamNNTPd Corrupting Message Bases
To   : Accession
From : Warpslide
Date : Tue Jan 16 2024 07:00 pm

On Tuesday January 16 2024, Accession said the following...

 Ac> First, and really nothing to do with the issues you're having, but
 Ac> give Smapinntpd a try instead. Smapinntpd uses the smapi library which
 Ac> includes newer and probably better JAM support (rather than the
 Ac> ancient jamlib that Jamnntpd uses).

I seem to have an issue compiling SmapiNNTPd.  It says "This program needs SMAPI to run", when I run make linux I see:

make -f Makefile.linux
make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/smapinntpd/src'
gcc  -Wall -Wno-pointer-sign -DPLATFORM_LINUX -D__PROGPROT_H__ -c main.c -o main.o
In file included from main.c:1:
nntpserv.h:22:10: fatal error: smapi/msgapi.h: No such file or directory
   22 | #include <smapi/msgapi.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [Makefile.linux:37: main.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/smapinntpd/src'
make: *** [Makefile:15: linux] Error 2

I've git clone'd https://github.com/huskyproject/smapi.git and moved the smapi/smapi directory to smapinntpd/src so smapi/msgapi.h does exist, I'm not sure why it's saying it doesn't.

Any pointers on getting it compiled?

 Ac> With that said, Jamnntpd/Smapinntpd doesn't work very well with the
 Ac> latest Thunderbird. Not only does the issue you speak of happen almost
 Ac> 100% of the time, but the FROM field ends up using node numbers
 Ac> instead of actual names, also.

 Ac> Take a look at Claws Mail, Sylpheed, or Pan as a newsreader. I'm using
 Ac> the Windows version of Claws Mail with Smapinntpd (hosted on Linux)
 Ac> and it works great.

Thanks for this.  I'll check out Claws Mail.


Jay

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