[Pan-users] Re: Automatically check NGs, and issue command?

[Duncan]

"Joshua McGee" <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted
below, on  Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:20:31 -0800:

> New here, patience appreciated.  I love Pan.
> 
> Is it possible to (natively) have Pan check newsgroups on a specified
> interval and issue a system command, such as send an email or play a
> sound?

Not natively, no.  Pan does have limited automatic header and nzb 
download that can be scripted from the command line, and automated 
message download (or mark-read/delete) based on score is planned but not 
yet implemented.  Thus, it can't even be setup as a cron job or the like, 
beyond simply fetching headers.

For such "advanced" usage, the recommendation has always been to run your 
own local news server, configure it to do the scheduled fetching and to 
listen for client connections on localhost, and then point pan at the 
news server running on localhost.  Since everything would already be 
local by the time you looked at it from pan, pan would "download" over 
the loopback interface and save very fast.

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