From: Jens Ansorg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: List Evolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 09:50:06 +0100 Subject: [Evolution] NNTP in evolution-1.5.x? hello, I just came acros this article http://usefulinc.com/edd/ blog/2004/2/6#13:23 and the author mentions using evo to read newsgroups. I have evo-1.5.3 and canot find any options regarding NNTP setup? Hoiw is this done?
The fedora test RPMS have NNTP explicitly disabled - I've filed a bug in rehat's bugzilla on the subject.
Assuming you've built from source - you can add a new mail account of type News Groups (or something to that effect - the machine I'm in front of now doesn't have 1.5 installed).
You can then subscribe to news groups using the Tools->Subscribe to Folders menu option.
>From my limited experimentation it seems a serviceable news reader, though not as good at certain tasks (like harvesting binaries, for instance) as a specialized app like Pan.
Oh - and one thing that I found annoying is that all your subscribed news groups become part of the "Active Remote Folders" target in defining vfolders - which means if you use IMAP and have a vfolder defined to search all your IMAP folders (as I do) - it suddenly tries to search all the news groups as well. (Filed an RFE in ximian's bugzilla on this.)
Hope that helps.
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