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Latest News
Jan-05-2009: Development News: Great news: MySQL support added(!) & lots of other improvements made.
Dec-27-2009: Development News: Role-based ACL is now
implemented too.
Dec-26-2009: Development News: Upcoming WendzelNNTPd 2.0.0 release will include an ACL functionality (not role based at the moment) as well as a real database abstraction layer. Btw. There are now powered by WendzelNNTPd images available.
Dec-19-2009: Windows Setup.exe file of version 1.4.5 is now available too!
Dec-14-2009: WendzelNNTPd-1.4.5 released (source code only, Windows setup exe file will follow next week)
Oct-11-2009: Tiny documentation upgrade (added upgrade hints)
Oct-02-2009: Added a contribution file as well as an FAQ.
Older news can be found here.
Features
- Free & Open
- Portability
- runs on 32-Bit Windows 2000/XP systems
(Vista and W7 not tested)
- runs on Linux and BSD
- runs on OpenSolaris
- Tiny
- does only implement the most important NNTP commands + authentication commands
- only about 4.300 lines of C and C++ code (for everything: the daemon, the admin tool and the GUI)
- designed for small and medium size environments (at home, small/medium size companies up to 500 server users, workgroups, customer support)
- based on SQLite3 (MySQL or PostgreSQL support for medium/big size environments in planing)
- Easy to Use
- The main target on the development of the WendzelNNTPd was to create an Usenet server everybody can use.
- Qt GUI is available
- Other Features
- IPv6-ready (not the Windows version since Microsoft has no real IPv6 support)
- Can produce XML overview output of the latest postings for easy website integration and such things!
- Auto-prevention of double newsgroup posts: If a user sends a posting to two equal
newsgroups, the server will add it only once to save memory of the server and
the time of readers.
- Hints
- Try out my Korallenriff software if you like WendzelNNTPd. Korallenriff can fetch NNTP messages and stores them in a database what makes web archives of NNTP postings and the like possible!
Do you run it?
Please tell me about it, if you run a public WendzelNNTPd server. If you want, I can add you to the list of public
sites running WendzelNNTPd. This list is currently empty since this software is new.
Support
You can ask questions in the WendzelNNTPd
forums
on SourceForge.net. You can get commercial mail support too (mail to support (at) veoves.com to find out more).
Documentation / FAQ
You can find the current documentation here (english).
A documentation for the old version 1.4.3 can be found in german:
here.
There is also an FAQ available.
There is also a current Changelog available.
Questions?
Just send me an eMail if you have any questions:
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Download WendzelNNTPd + GUI
WendzelNNTPd is 100% Open Source. You can download the source code and pre-compiled Win32 binaries.
>>> DOWNLOAD Setup.exe for Windows <<<
>>> DOWNLOAD Source Code for *nix <<<
Screenshot(s)
(click on the images to enlarge)
Awards
»"WendzelINNTPd" has been tested by the Softpedia labs and found to be completely
clean of adware/spyware components.«
Contributing
Do you want to contribute to the development of WendzelNNTPd? Just click here for a list of things
you could do.
Project History
This project started in 2004 (named "cdpNNTPd" and renamed to "WendzelNNTPd" in 2007).
The full project history can be found here.
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