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#gnus.el file:

(setq gnus-select-method '(nnspool "")
nnspool-spool-directory "/var/spool/slrnpull/news"
nnspool-nov-directory "/var/spool/slrnpull/news/over.view"
nnspool-active-file "/var/spool/slrnpull/data/active"
gnus-check-new-newsgroups t
gnus-post-method '(nnspool "")
nnspool-inews-program "/bin/true")


Hello there. First, sadly I'm posting this from slrn.
slrnpull works great with nnspool. No issues
on fetching the groups, reading the messages
and so on.
The problem is to answer/followup the articles.
I can't, because Emacs using nnspool asks me
for the inews program, which doesn't exist
in my machine. How could I solve this without
resorting to install a dependency which might
be cumbersome or big to manage?
Thanks in advence.

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bozo user <anthk@disroot.org> wrote:

The problem is to answer/followup the articles.
I can't, because Emacs using nnspool asks me
for the inews program, which doesn't exist
in my machine. How could I solve this without
resorting to install a dependency which might
be cumbersome or big to manage?

I would suggest using leafnode instead of slrnpull.
It occupies ~1 Mb and runs a NNTP server on localhost.
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bozo user <anthk@disroot.org> writes:

The problem is to answer/followup the articles.
I can't, because Emacs using nnspool asks me
for the inews program, which doesn't exist
in my machine. How could I solve this without
resorting to install a dependency which might
be cumbersome or big to manage?

inews isn't big or cumbersome as far as I know. In Debian Linux and
derivatives there's the package inn2-inews which includes inews. Its
installed size is all of 365 kB in Debian 11.

It should be possible to configure Gnus to put your outgoing messages in
the news spool for slrnpull to send out too. But that probably needs
some knowledge of what slrnpull expects and how to make Gnus provide
that. Should be easier to just use inews.
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Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

bozo user <anthk@disroot.org> wrote:

The problem is to answer/followup the articles.
I can't, because Emacs using nnspool asks me
for the inews program, which doesn't exist
in my machine. How could I solve this without
resorting to install a dependency which might
be cumbersome or big to manage?

I would suggest using leafnode instead of slrnpull.
It occupies ~1 Mb and runs a NNTP server on localhost.

I have checked the docs and it looks like it's possible to use a
different method for getting news and another method for posting.

(setq gnus-nntp-server nil)
(setq gnus-select-method (list 'nnspool (system-name)))
(setq gnus-post-method '(nntp "flab.flab.edu"))

See:

C-h v gnus-select-method
C-h v gnus-post-method


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On 2023-05-23, Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

bozo user <anthk@disroot.org> wrote:

The problem is to answer/followup the articles.
I can't, because Emacs using nnspool asks me
for the inews program, which doesn't exist
in my machine. How could I solve this without
resorting to install a dependency which might
be cumbersome or big to manage?

I would suggest using leafnode instead of slrnpull.
It occupies ~1 Mb and runs a NNTP server on localhost.

I have checked the docs and it looks like it's possible to use a
different method for getting news and another method for posting.

(setq gnus-nntp-server nil)
(setq gnus-select-method (list 'nnspool (system-name)))
(setq gnus-post-method '(nntp "flab.flab.edu"))

See:

C-h v gnus-select-method
C-h v gnus-post-method

Well, I solved it with this
at ~/.gnus.el:

##GNUS.el

(setq gnus-select-method '(nnspool "")
nnspool-spool-directory "/var/spool/slrnpull/news"
nnspool-nov-directory "/var/spool/slrnpull/news/over.view"
nnspool-active-file "/var/spool/slrnpull/data/active"
gnus-check-new-newsgroups t
gnus-post-method '(nnspool "")
nnspool-inews-program "sh"
nnspool-inews-switches '("-c" "cat > /var/spool/slrnqqqpull/out.going/X$(date +%s)-$$-1.$LOGNAME"))

(defun my-slrnpull-post-only (&optional dont-check)
(interactive)
(when (or dont-check
(message-news-p))
(gnus-message 5 "Posting news...")
(shell-command "slrnpull -d /var/spool/slrnpull --post-only")))

(add-hook 'message-sent-hook 'my-slrnpull-post-only)

##EOF

Hope this works for the rest
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