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NNTP Server Description

Features | Detailed Description

Available in .NET, VCL and ActiveX editions.

The NNTP Server component is used for receiving and posting news to the server as well as exchanging news between news servers.

This component represents fully functional multithreaded server with the ability to customize the user and thread performance settings, supports all NNTP extensions according to RFC 977 and RFC 2980 protocols.

You can use X.509 certificates for establishing the SSL / TLS secured connection.

See SSL / TLS support and Using certificates

With NNTP Server component you can enable debug log for showing entered commands and replies sent to the user.

The most common members of the NNTP Server component can be seen below:

Property List

  Name   Description
 Capabilities Gets or sets the NNTP server capabilities list.
 CaseInsensitive Specifies whether the user account validation is case-insensitive.
 Groups Gets or sets a list of available news groups.
 MaxThreadCount Gets or Sets the number of requests to the server that can be active concurrently.
 MinThreadCount Gets or Sets the number of idle threads the server maintains in anticipation of new requests.
 OverviewFormat Defines the overview format for the Group Overview functionality.
 Port Specifies the port on which the NNTP server will listen to the user connections.
 TooOldDays Specifies the time interval during of which the posted articles are considered as new articles.
 UserAccounts Provides a list of users which have allowed connecting to the NNTP server.
 UseTLS Specifies whether the component should use the TLS / SSL security protocol.

Method List

  Name   Description
 Start Starts the NNTP server.
 Stop Stops the NNTP server.

Event List

  Name   Description
 OnArticleReceived Occurs when the NNTP server received an article.
 OnAuthenticate Occurs when the NNTP server has accepred an authentication information from the user and needs to authorize or decline the connection.
 OnCanAccessGroup Occurs when the NNTP server is about to add the specified news group to the available groups list.
 OnGetArticles Occurs when the NNTP server retrieves a list of available articles within the selected news group.
 OnGetArticleSource Occurs when the NNTP server retrieves the selected article content.
 OnGetGroupInfo Occurs when the NNTP server selects the news group and needs to obtain the necessary news group information.

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