newsstar-1.5.6/sample_config/cf.server.sample

# Options on a per-server basis, defaults shown


# IP address of server if not same as server identifier (ie the tail of the
# newsrc filename).
# server news.cis.dfn.de

# NNTP port.
port 119

# If no username or password are given, no authentication is performed.

# User name.
# user username

# Password.
# password xxxxxx

# Whether to use SSL instead of a clear text socket for this server
ssl no

# Server needs MODE READER command.
mode_reader yes

# Some servers don't allow articles to be fetched even by Message-ID unless
# a group has been entered. This option makes sure that is the case.
enter_group no

# Maximum number of threads for this server, overrides main.cf's
# threads_per_server for this server.
max_threads 3

# Weighting used to cause this server to be favoured over others, the larger
# the number, the heavier the bias. Typically you'd use a value in the
# thousands, but anything over 10,000 will tend to prevent any unweighted
# servers from ever being connected to. Avoid negative numbers unless you want
# to temporarily prevent a server being used altogether, in which case use at
# least 20,000 (ie mathematically < -20,000).
server_weight 0

# This overrides the option in main.cf on a per-server basis.
pipeline yes

# Whether server should be fed with outgoing articles from a feed with the
# same name as the server's identifier
feed yes

# Leafname of an extra feed directory as well as or instead of the one enabled
# by the feed option above. Usually this would be named after another server's
# identifier.
#extra_feed

# If you often download very few articles at a time, the overhead of connecting
# extra threads to some servers, only to find there are no new articles to
# download, may actually slow the overall process down, so this setting causes
# newsstar not to start additional threads until a server has at least
# min_worth_getting articles available. Previous versions had this fixed at 25.
min_worth_getting 0

# Usually newsstar uses XHDR to receive a list of Message-IDs of articles to be
# potentially fetched. XHDR may cause a performance hit on some servers as they
# look up the body of the article, so it may be more efficient to use XOVER to
# extract the information from the overview, even though it uses more bandwidth
# by also providing extra header information we don't need - although future
# versions of newsstar will use this for killfiling. The xover option enables
# use of XOVER.
xover no

# Default score for killfile
default_score 100

# If kill_score < 0 and an article scores between 0 and kill_score, newsstar
# will generate a dummy article for it from its XOVER headers. Articles scoring
# any lower will be killed altogether (as earlier behaviour)
kill_score 0

# Due to clustering, some servers create articles out of order aka backfilling,
# ie article numbers are allocated without the article necessarily becoming
# available until after later article numbers have been allocated to articles
# that are available. This makes it more difficult for fetchers to keep track
# of what they've downloaded. Supernews.com is one widely used server reputed
# to do this. Newsstar can be configured to keep track of such articles for a
# certain number of days given by backfill_expiry, or until they can be
# downloaded. Use a value of 0 to disable the feature. Note this used to
# default to 7 days, now changed to 0 (disabled).
backfill_expiry 0

# One server I use rejects duplicate uploads with a message of the form:
# 441 436 <Message-ID>
# Enabling this option causes such messages to be ignored if duplicate
# reporting is not enabled.
ignore_436 false

# Entry to add to path header of downloaded articles. This makes it easier to
# configure INN not to attempt to post incoming articles back out whence they
# came. May also be necessary to make it accept header-only pseudo-articles.
# path server.