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From: Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch>
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Subject: Re: Another FOSS Gem
Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 09:19:50 -0400
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On Sun, 19 May 2024 12:18:21 -0000 (UTC), RonB
<ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 2024-05-19, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>> On 19 May 2024 02:53:33 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 18 May 2024 23:47:14 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>>>
>>>> It looks like it's been "retired." Apparently whoever was maintaining it
>>>> for Fedora gave up on it. But you can still download the version for
>>>> Fedora 38. I'm guessing it would work in Fedora 40. Can't say for sure,
>>>> I don't know that much about Fedora.
>>>
>>>On Fedora 40 'sudo dnf install pan'  pleads ignorance about pan. I think 
>>>you can install SABnzbd but the NZB stuff is of no interest to me. It's 
>>>not the machine I do usenet on but I do have slrn set up as a backup.
>>>
>>>I liked KNode but that's history also. 
>>
>> Even the free software community considers Usenet to be dead. I guess
>> it's Thunderbird or nothing if you want a GUI. 
>
>It looks like Claws-Mail is still available for Fedora. I don't know how 
>good it is, but it does have GUI a interface.
>
>https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/claws-mail
>
>https://www.claws-mail.org/
>
>I installed v4.2.0 on Fedora 39 with "sudo dnf install claws-mail" 

I recall trying it out a while back and feeling like I was a
14-year-old discovering Internet for the first time agian. I get the
impression that was the last time it was updated too.