RumorMill 1.3

Current version is 1.3.4

Introduction

RumorMill is a news (NNTP) server. The News protocol is ideally suited to public discussion, and RumorMill is designed to make it easy to create (and remove) local or shared Newsgroups. RumorMill (and other NNTP) servers can easily be linked together to create a wide spanning communication network.

RumorMill can be Remotely Administered, supports Newswatcher Prefs and Newsrc files and it has a small memory footprint. Amongst other security features RumorMill has Site Restrictions which can be used to prevent off-site (based on TCP/IP address) computers accessing the server.

Features

• Quick and Easy Setup
• Remote Configuration
• Support Multiple Host Servers
• Active Pull (or 'Suck')
• Site Restricitions Security Masks
• User/Password restrictions
• Small Memory Footprint
• Streaming support - both receive and send
• Support for moderated groups
• Statistics reports via EMail
• Remote group change reports via EMail
• Article expiration on a per group basis
• News <-> EMail gateway capabilities
• SYSLOG support *New*
• Per user restrictions to read and post groups *New*
• Supports large databases *New*

RumorMill System Requirements