Subj : NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
To   : Accession
From : Deuce
Date : Wed Nov 05 2025 03:46 pm

 Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
 By: Accession to Mindsurfer on Tue Nov 04 2025 04:38 pm

> It takes a little bit of messing about, but not too much. However, while I
> tested Golded with Synchronet quite a bit, that's not how I use it normally.
> There's too many quirks that I don't like, and it doesn't look like Golded
> will be updated to work better with Synchronet any time soon.
>
> 1) Netmail doesn't work. You can read the mail base, but you'll break stuff
> if you try to write to it.
>
> 2) You have to completely disable Synchronet's "voting" feature, and
> completely clear your message bases of any "voting" messages. Golded doesn't
> understand it, and will display blank messages and then jump back to the
> first message in the area - completely ruining any chance of reading
> messages in order, or keeping last read pointers in tact.
>
> If you don't mind any of that, then it works great afterwards. It was
> definitely enough for me to move on to other options. ;)

Those both sound pretty fixable... maybe I'll take a look this weekend.
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