Re: [Evolution] How to configure Newsgroups

["Patrick M. Kelecy" <pkelecy insightbb com>]

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 18:03 +0100, Walter wrote:
> I have not found any help on setting up a 'Newsgroup' account but I
> gather it is feasable by the correspondence.  I have located what I
> think to be the confuration and I get a response 'loading' but nothing
> seems to load.  I am missing some trick, any help would be appreciated.
> This is the sequence I have tried:-
>
> Edit; Preferences;Newsgroup folder; Protocol 'nntp'
> Edit ; identity, email address (as at my ISP)
> Receiving email ; server USENET.ISPname.net  username 'username' at my
> ISP
> Sending email ; SMTP server address of my ISP.
>
> Otherwise I am receiving normal email OK and like the feel of Evolution.

The only info I was able to find when doing this was this article:

http://www.ensode.net/evolution_newsgroups.html

However, although I was able to set up this up successfully, when I
tried using it I found it very buggy.  Some newsgroups wouldn't always
update, and I couldn't find any way to tell it to, say, get the next 300
headers.  Also, the features for marking and tracking posts were very
limited (as far as I could tell).  I ended up replacing it with
Thunderbird in the end.

I wish Novell would get this fixed though.  I would really like to be
able to post to and monitor newsgroups in Evolution, rather than using a
separate application (it's the only thing I use Thunderbird for).

HTH,  -Pat