WendzelNNTPd

WendzelNNTPd project is an open source Usenet server software for Linux, BSD and Windows written by Steffen Wendzel. WendzelNNTPd is a perfect solution for many modern company.

Features:

• Portability:
• runs on 32-Bit Windows 2000/XP systems (Vista not tested);
• runs on Linux;
• runs on BSD.
• Tiny:
• does only implement the most important NNTP commands + authentication commands;
• only about 3.000 lines of C code;
• free version is designed for small environments (small companies, workgroups, customer support);
• free version is based on SQLite3 (MySQL support for medium/big size environments under development;
• Easy to Use:
• The main target on the development of the WendzelNNTPd was to create an Usenet server everybody can use;
• Gtk+ GUI is planed;
• Commercial support and services available:
• Commercial support is provided by Ploetner IT, germany;
• For medium/big/enterprise size environments: MySQL support is under development and available for a cheap price.
• Other Features:
• IPv6-ready (not the Windows version since Microsoft has no real IPv6 support)

What is new in this release:

• This release includes different important stability bugfixes and improvements (like informing the NNTP client in the case of a posting that was too big).
• The administration tool now accepts a password parameter that makes it easier to embed in scripts for automatic user account generation.

What is new in version 1.4.2:

• ADDED FEATURES:
• Accepted and rejected authentications are now logged (including their (tried) username and their IP)
• FIXES:
• do not make usernames, passwords and other NNTP dynamic parameters lower case. This lead to a problem that upper case usernames/pass- words weren't accepted. Thanks to @Nils Dabrock for reporting this bug.
• output the correct function name in db_check() on startup if an error occurs.
• MISC:
• implemented a useful string concatenation function
• implemented correct function name handlings in system logging macro DO_SYSL() by using __func__. This increases the quality of the logging system and prevents copy-n-pase errors.
• find qmake-qt4 binary for gui/src/compile too

What is new in version 1.4.1:

• This release able to log the IPs of established and closed connections.
• There were many bugfixes in this version, including two crash dump fixes.

What is new in version 1.4.0:

• now storing the posting body in files what makes SQLite faster and prevents the need for a 2.0.0-mysql release since we only use SQLite3 for meta information (header information, newsgroup meta data and the like).
• instead of 120.000 bytes a posting can now have a much bigger size (16 kbyte header, like before) and a 20 M huge body (one can change this in src/include/wendzelnntpdpath.h)
• improved some error handling in database.c/server.c
• ported code to windows once again
• tiny URL fix to our new website (wendzel.de) in configure script

What is new in version 1.3.0:

• The XHDR command can now understand the message ID as a parameter.
• Because of this, the database format needed to change, which means that all database files have to be recreated.
• The DATE command was added, a few SQL string messages were fixed, and a better NNTP command tokenizer was implemented.