Pan is a graphical Usenet newsreader for reading and posting messages, following discussions and downloading binary content. It uses GTK and offers a traditional desktop interface for navigating newsgroups and managing articles.
The application supports both text discussions and binary newsgroups. Users can maintain subscriptions, follow conversation threads, search through articles and work with several news servers. It can also queue material for offline reading, making it useful when a permanent connection is inconvenient.
Pan includes extensive filtering and scoring facilities for handling busy newsgroups. Its rules system can hide unwanted articles, highlight relevant discussions or perform automatic actions on matching messages.
Pan has a long history as a Linux newsreader and satisfies the Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval newsreader evaluation criteria.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Read, compose and reply to Usenet articles.
- Threaded discussion view helps organise related messages.
- Article sorting supports author, subject, date and unread thread activity.
- Connect to multiple NNTP servers with configurable connection limits.
- Supports authenticated connections to news servers.
- Encrypted NNTP connections are available through TLS.
- Queue articles, threads and complete newsgroups for offline reading.
- Store outgoing posts until a connection is available.
- Filter articles using regular expressions, message status and content type.
- Scoring and killfile rules help suppress unwanted articles.
- Automatic rules can download, cache, hide or delete matching messages.
- Cache article headers locally for faster browsing.
- Supports yEnc, Base64 and uuencoded binary attachments.
- Groups multipart binary articles for downloading and decoding.
- Inline image display and MIME attachment handling.
- Task manager controls download queues and individual jobs.
- Customisable keyboard shortcuts allow mouse-free operation.
- Optional integration with desktop password storage and spellchecking facilities.
Website: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan
Support:
Developer: Charles Kerr, Christophe Lambin, Matt Eagleson
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Pan is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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