What is sonews?
sonews is a RCF 3977 compliant NNTP Usenet server. It is written in Java and uses a relation database management system (RDBMS) as backend (currently PostgreSQL and MySQL). sonews is highly multithreaded and uses Java NIO asynchronous sockets to handle thousands of concurrent connections.
Development & Download
sonews is Free Software licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL v3. The sources of the stable version can be found in this Bitbucket repository. The current development branch can be found here.
Feel free to dig through the sources, fix bugs (if any...) or submit issues. Any help is welcomed.
You will find binary and source releases here. Ubuntu users may be interested in the sonews PPA on Launchpad with packaged releases (warning: experimental).
Some specs
- NNTP (RFC 3977) Usenet news server
- Plugable backend (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Filesystem, ...)
- New commands or backends can be integrated through plugins
- Tested with up to 30 000 concurrent connections on one machine
- Supports push and pull peering
- Plugins (Drupal frontend, Mailinglist gateway, ...)