XPN – graphical newsreader

Last Updated on July 13, 2021

XPN is a graphical newsreader written with the GTK+ toolkit. It has good support for MIME standards.

With XPN you can read/write articles on Usenet. XPN can operate with all the most widespread charsets, starting from US-ASCII to UTF-8.

When you edit an article XPN automatically chooses the best charset, however it is always possible to override this choice.

Features include:

• On-Line / Off-Line Mode.
• Multiple layouts (24 different possible layouts).
• Readability: Different colors for text, quoted text and signs.
• Read articles coded with quoted-printable, 7 bit or 8 bit. XPN is also full UTF-8 compliant.
• Create scoring rules in order to assign a score to articles. This rule can act on this fields: From, Subject, Date, Message-ID, References, Age, Xpost, Xref, Bytes and Lines.
• Create action rules.
• Random tag-lines.
• Filtered views.
• External editor support.
• One-key navigation.
• Supports decoding of the X-Face and Face headers.
• Supports multiple languages.

Website: github.com/kdwyer/XPN
Support:
Developer: Antonio Caputo
License: GNU GPL

XPN is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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