[NNTP] LIST EXTENSIONS (again)

[Russ Allbery]

Kai Henningsen <kaih at khms.westfalen.de> writes:

> UUCP needs transfer access from localhost. Well, actually, it's rnews
> that needs this; UUCP uses rnews. IIRC, however, nnrpd also uses rnews
> if innd can't currently accept messages - it puts those in rnews'
> in.coming queue directory and relies on a cronjob calling rnews -U to
> unspool them into innd via - of course - a transfer mode connection.

rnews (and nnrpd) normally both use the local Unix domain socket rather
than a regular localhost connection, although they do fall back on a
localhost connection if Unix domain sockets aren't available for some
reason.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>