Re: features being retired

Dave McMurtrie <[email protected]>
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Can confirm Carnegie Mellon is no longer running Cyrus nntp. :)

dave64
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Dave McMurtrie, SPE
Unix Systems Manager
Computing Services
Carnegie Mellon University

On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 7:49 PM Bron Gondwana via Info <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2026, at 14:56, Ken Murchison wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> The "d" after use there is doing a lot of heavy lifting :)
>
> Hopefully in the year of our lord 2026, we can just say "here's a nickel
> kid, go get yourself a JMAP client".
>
> Bron.
>
> (Rik and I have already concluded out loud that all three people running
> an NNTP server are probably using INN, and yes - I personally know more
> people than that running INN, don't at me)
>
> --
>   Bron Gondwana, CEO, Fastmail Pty Ltd / Fastmail US LLC
>   [email protected]
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