Re: features being retired

Ken Murchison <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.cyrus
Organization Fastmail US LLC
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/13/26 2:51 PM, Marco Moock wrote:
> Am 13.08.26 um 20:47 schrieb Ricardo Signes via Info:
>
>> As the Cyrus IMAP team continues to work on our next major release, 
>> we've been identifying dead code, ancient options, and features that 
>> add complexity or threat area without earning their keep.  Some of 
>> these features will be removed without notice beyond what goes in the 
>> changelogs (like xCal 
>> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6321>).  I wanted to call 
>> out these features, though, as *very* likely to be removed before the 
>> next major release:
>>   • RSS feeds
>>   • NNTP
>
> Is there anyone who actually operated Cyrus as an NNTP server?


CMU used both NNTP and RSS for providing access to shared mailboxes 
(bulletin boards) to users with email clients that couldn't access them.

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Staff Software Developer
Fastmail US LLC
IETF MailMaint Co-Chair


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