Re: [Pan-users] Did I miss an option somewhere?

[Duncan]

On Wed 23 Jul 2003 07:19, John Aldrich posted as excerpted below:
> It is my understanding that PAN does not talk to more than one server at a
> time. This may change in the future when PAN has a "virtual" server built
> in (i.e. a database that it can use to store messages and download
> headers/messages to.) At least that's the way I understand it.

Pan CAN talk to more than one server at a time, but doesn't, by default.  IOW, 
the way it's set up now, it only sees the current server, unless you set it 
up to d/l something, then switch servers, and set that up to d/l.  THEN, it 
will continue with as many connections as configured to each server, until 
the tasks for that server are completed.  Thus, if one wants to work on 
multiple servers at one time, one can, but only by manually switching servers 
and setting up d/ls on more than one at a time.

This is set to eventually change.. as you mentioned, but any such changes are 
currently on hold pending a back-end rewrite to make use of SQLite or similar 
library for more advanced databasing, which will TREMENDOUSLY simplify the 
process of getting all those servers and groups to work together, when 
virtual groups and virtual servers ARE finally added.  Last time I looked at 
the roadmap, it didn't mention it b4 1.0, however, so when this back-end 
rewrite might happen and when these fancy features will be added remains to 
be seen.

FWIW, tho it's closed source AFAIK, and dependent on a closed source Borland 
Delphi/Kylex development environment even if not, BNR2 sets the mark in this 
area both on MSWormOS and on Linux at this time.  For some time, they'd let 
the Linux port stagnate, but they just recently brought it back in line with 
the MSWormOS version and seem to be developing for both again, according to 
reports in my ISP's newsgroups.  For me, however, PAN does what I need, and 
tho it'd be nice to have those features, I'll take PAN as is and continue to 
support open source, doing my part to encourage PAN to get there in its own 
time, even if I don't do C development personally, at least not yet.

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