This is Pan, a powerful and user-friendly Usenet newsreader for GTK+.
The latest information and versions of Pan can always be found at
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THE SALES PITCH
Pan is good for Reading News.
* Pan is the only Unix newsreader to score 100% on the
Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval newsreader evaluations.
* Pan has keyboard bindings for mouse-free newsreading.
* Basic newsreader features, such as reading and writing news,
threading articles, and replying via email, are supported.
* Articles can be sorted by author, date, subject, or the number
of unread children in the thread.
* Multiple connections are supported, so articles can be read
while binaries are downloading.
* Articles can be filtered by regular expression matching,
read/unread state, binary/text, etc.
* Works well as an offline reader.
* Articles can be queued until you want to go online, and can be
re-edited at any point before they're posted.
* A flexible rules system allows you to delete, hide, download,
or notify you of, etc. articles that match a subject, or are
posted by a particular user, and so on.
* The same system can be used to define automatic actions on behalf
of the user: auto-download, auto-cache, auto-delete etc.
* Groups can be filtered by regular expression matching
subscribed/new/all, etc.
Pan is good at Binaries.
* Attached images can be shown inline.
* Pan can download and thread articles as quickly as bandwidth allows.
* uuencode, MIME, and yEnc attachments are all supported.
* A task manager lets you reorder, cancel, and resubmit download tasks.
* Multiple connections are supported, so many binaries can
be downloaded simultaneously.
* Multipart articles are automatically grouped together.
* Non-binary, incomplete multipart, and saved messages can be filtered
out of the article list.
* Files can be attached to a Usenet article and are
automatically encrypted with yEnc, threaded and referenced by Pan.
* Articles can be encrypted or signed with a public or private PGP key
for enhanced privacy and security.
* Connections can be encrypted with the TLS protocol.
The rest of the sales pitch is at .
RELEASE NOTES
* You are advised to back up your $PAN_HOME directory (by default,
'$HOME/.pan2') before upgrading Pan.
* If you have previously been using a localhost server with stunnel and
you now want to connect directly to a news server using the actual
server address, do not create a new configuration entry for the
server. Pan treats a new entry as a new server and does not preserve
existing data on your subscribed groups, even though you are
connecting to the very same server as before. Always edit the existing
server configuration to preserve your subscriptions.
* Directories to search for SSL certificates can be defined with
environment variables 'SSL_CERT_DIR' or 'SSL_DIR'.
* To use password storage provided by GNOME Keyring or libsecret, build
Pan with support for that feature, and then enable it in Edit ->
Preferences -> Miscellaneous -> 'Save passwords in password storage'.
REQUIREMENTS
Pan requires these libraries:
* GLib 2.17.6 or higher
(optionally GLib 2.26.0 or higher to support multiple Pan instances)
* GTK+ 2.16.0 or higher (optionally GTK+ 3.0.0 or higher)
* GMime 2.6.20 or higher
(optionally with PGP cryptography support)
The following libraries add extra features but are optional:
* GtkSpell 2.0.7 or higher for spellchecker support
(GtkSpell 2.0.16 or higher when using GTK+ 3)
* Enchant 1.6.0 or higher for spellchecker support
* libnotify 0.4.1 or higher for notifications
* GNOME Keyring 3.2.0 or higher for password storage
* libsecret 0.16 or higher and gcr 3.20 or higher for password storage
when using GTK+ 3
* D-Bus to support running multiple Pan instances
* GnuTLS 3.0.0 or higher for encrypted connections (TLS 1.x)
* Yelp Tools for built-in user manual
The following libraries are experimental and not suitable for any use other
than testing. Use at your own risk:
* GMime 3.0.0 or higher
(optionally with PGP cryptography support)
* WebKitGTK+ 1.8.1 or higher for embedded HTML
Run the following command to get a list of all options that you can enable
or disable at configure time:
./configure --help
INSTALLATION
Run the following command to build Pan configured with the default options:
./configure && make
This will result in the executable ./pan/gui/pan.
When building Pan from the Git repository, run the following command
instead:
./autogen.sh && make
Finally, run the following command as root to install Pan:
make install
UPGRADING
Upgrading typically requires that you do the exact same procedure as when
installing Pan.
HOW TO REPORT BUGS
For details on how to report bugs, see .
CONTACT
To get in touch with Pan contributors and community members, subscribe to
one of the Pan mailing lists. For more information, see
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You can also chat with other community members on irc.freenode.net, channel
#pan.
LINKS
Pan : http://pan.rebelbase.com/
GTK+ : http://www.gtk.org/
GNOME : http://www.gnome.org/
GNU : http://www.gnu.org/