Re: [Pan-users] Use Multiple Server Names?

[David Shochat]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:23:42 -0400, JW wrote:

> I am a new user of Ubuntu (10.11), and Pan 0.133.
> 
> I am a refugee from Windows XP, and a long time user of Forte Agent.
> 
> I subscribe to a paid News Server.
> 
> 
>  
> I want to try Pan, but I can't figure how to do something.  I want to
> group selected news groups into two categories, one text, one binaries.
> I want to use two different News Server IP addresses and/or names for
> them.  My paid news server does have multiple addresses.
> 
I may be misinterpreting you intentions, but it sounds like you want the 
text groups to use only one server and the binary groups to use only the 
paid (multiple) servers. One way to do this is to have two profile 
directories. One could have the default name of ~/.pan2 and one could 
have a different name such as ~/.pan2.bin ("~" means your home 
directory). Now if you just use the command "pan", you'll be using 
~/.pan2. To use the other one, you could use a command:
PAN_HOME=$HOME/.pan2.bin pan
Now when you run pan without the special environment variable setting, 
you can enter your text group server, and when you run it the other way 
(using the other profile directory) enter the various server names for 
your paid service. Then run the appropriate "version" depending on what 
you're doing.
By the way, the latest version is actually 0.136, so you might want to 
upgrade (you will need to build from source).
Also, others may comment on the fact that your post appeared to be 
partially in HTML. See if you can configure your E-mail program to do 
only plain text when posting to this group (or use pan itself via gmane).
-- David