The
ExNNTP control is 32-bit light COM that provides easy and flexible way to
handle news (NNTP) messages. The Net News Transfer Protocol(NNTP) is a TCP/IP
protocol based upon text strings sent bidirectionally over 7 bit ASCII TCP
channels. It is used to transfer articles between servers as well as to read
and post articles. XOver (overview database ) header are supported. And
ExNNTP's Groups and NewsGroups objects which contain Articles objects, which
in turn contain Articles, make managing groups and articles very easy. The
entire list of articles for any group can easily be downloaded, and left
untouched in that Group as other groups are accessed. Once that a message has
been sent by the server, the ExNNTP control caches the message for future
accessing. The NNTP object supports the following properties and methods:
| | Name | Description | |
| | Busy | Specifies a value that indicates whether the client is busy. | |
| | Command | Executes a custom command, and retrieves the response from the server. | |
| | Connect | Connects the client to the news server. | |
| | Connected | Retrieves a value indicating whether the client is connected to the server. | |
| | Date | Converts a DATE value to the YYMMDD format. | |
| | Disconnect | Disconnects the client from the server. | |
| | Group | Retrieves a specified news group, without listing all news groups. | |
| | Groups | Retrieves the news groups collection as returned by the server. | |
| | LastError | Retrieves a value that indicates the description of the last error occurred. The description includes also, the error code. | |
| | NewGroups | Retrieves a Groups collection indicating the list of News groups created since Date and Time. | |
| | Password | Retrieves or sets the user password if the NNTP server requires authorization. | |
| | Time | Converts a TIME value to HHMMSS format. | |
| | UserName | Retrieves or sets the user name if the NNTP server requires authorization. | |
| | XOverFields | Retrieves the XOver list fields. | |
