Source: pyg Section: news Priority: optional Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Cosimo Alfarano Standards-Version: 3.9.3 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 3.0), python-dev (>= 2.6.6-3~), flex, bison Package: pyg Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Suggests: news-transport-system , mail-transport-agent, procmail | maildrop | sensible-mda Description: Python Mail <-> News Gateway Python Gateway Script from news to mail and vice versa. . It is intended to be a full SMTP/NNTP rfc compliant gateway with whitelist manager. . You will probably have to install a mail-transport-agent and/or news-transport-system package to manage SMTP/NNTP traffic. . MTA is needed for mail2news service, since mail have to be processed on a box where pyg is installed. You can use a remote smtpserver for news2mail. . News system is useful but not needed, since you can send articles to a remote SMTP server (ie: moderated NG) where is installed pyg, otherwise you will need it. . It refers to rfc 822 (mail) and 850 (news).