How do I access news groups other then throught IE?

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Windows XP does include Outlook Express. Launch Outlook Express using the Quick Launch shortcut or by directly running the file msimn.exe located at %programfiles%\outlook express.

Start/Run and type: %Programfiles%\Outlook Express\MSIMN.EXE

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Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
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<aa> wrote in message Thanks,
So the answer is re-install IE from MS website which should add OE?

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroupsetup.mspx
 
Don't forget Free Agent from www.forteinc.com
As the name suggests - it's FREE
Good product, too.

Dave
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Do you know if Free Agent provides rules that can search ANY header?
Outlook Express does not (nor does Thunderbird) so you can only search
for strings within specific headers, like From and Subject. If the
poster uses a remailer, their moniker may be randomized on every post as
well as a bogus e-mail address, so you cannot, for example, killfile
them using those "standard" (and very minimal) headers. I'd like to
killfile on something like 'when "NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.111.200.92" is
in headers', or 'when header "NNTP-Posting-Host" contains
"193.111.200.92"', or 'when PATH header contains "gradwell.net"'.
Anything like that in Free Agent?
 
On w2k I used to OutlookExpress to access news groups.
In my XP installation there is IE but no OE.
Outlook installed with Office does not allow news account (or it does?).
How do I access news groups other then throught IE?
 
Greetings --

Use Outlook Express, just as you did with Win2K. Like Internet
Explorer, Outlook Express is built into WinXP, and cannot be removed.
(If you've somehow deleted the shortcut to start OE, simply create a
new one. The executable's name is MSIMN.EXE.)

Bruce Chambers
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Create a shortcut to C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe and copy it to your Start Menu.
 
Thanks, Ramesh, It works.
But fopr some reason OE does not show up in the Start-All Programs
a
Windows XP does include Outlook Express. Launch Outlook Express using the
Quick Launch shortcut or by directly running the file msimn.exe located at
%programfiles%\outlook express.

Start/Run and type: %Programfiles%\Outlook Express\MSIMN.EXE

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


<aa> wrote in message Thanks,
So the answer is re-install IE from MS website which should add OE?

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroupsetup.mspx
 
If I correctly understood your first post, you have Outlook installed. That
probably is your default Program for E-mail in the Start Menu as well as at
Internet Explorer/Tools/Internet Options/Programs. Go back to Internet
Options/Programs and make Outlook Express your program for Newsgroups
access.
 
Outlook does indeed have a newsreader, named Outlook Newsreader (!). While
it's really a poorly disguised version of Outlook Express, it works
differently. The newsreader is opened via OL: View>Go to>News. Depending
on your version of OL, you may need to add News capabilities. See OL Help.
--
OE6-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
OL-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.general

HTH - Please Reply to This Thread

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
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Do you know if Free Agent provides rules that can search ANY header?
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I think there are no rules available in FREE Agent - you need to
purchase the full version to get that.
 
Aussie Bomber said:
I think there are no rules available in FREE Agent - you need to
purchase the full version to get that.
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Do you have the full version of Agent to check? I just downloaded it.
The download is not the free version but is instead the full version
which cripples itself after the trial period unless you pay and register
it. So when I get some time to scan the current state of my system,
install Agent, scan again to check for all changes made by the install
(so I can guarantee a complete clean uninstall) then I can check this
out myself as long as I don't get too bogged down just trying to use it
initially. Just looking for a heads up to know if Agent gives me the
ability to search ANY header in a post (to see if it exists or to check
for a value or substring after it).
 
Do you have the full version of Agent to check? I just downloaded it.
The download is not the free version but is instead the full version
which cripples itself after the trial period unless you pay and register
it. So when I get some time to scan the current state of my system,
install Agent, scan again to check for all changes made by the install
(so I can guarantee a complete clean uninstall) then I can check this
out myself as long as I don't get too bogged down just trying to use it
initially. Just looking for a heads up to know if Agent gives me the
ability to search ANY header in a post (to see if it exists or to check
for a value or substring after it).
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Well they have their own group. Post there and ask the
product experts.
alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent

Cheers,
Dave
 
davetest said:
Well they have their own group. Post there and ask the
product experts.
alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent
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Cannot specify a non-standard port for the POP3 mail server. I go
through SpamPal for spam filtering which accepts POP3 connections but I
have it configured to monitor for POP3 connects on port 7110, not on the
standard port of 110. This is the first e-mail capable client that I
have encountered where I cannot specify what port it will use to connect
to the POP3 server. This severe deficiency makes Agent completely
unusable to me for e-mail. While I had no intention of using Agent as my
e-mail client for my non-news accounts, I had expected to use it for my
news-related e-mail account (the one published in the Reply-To header in
my posts). Guess not!

After installing Agent again, which is the 30-day trial version before
it cripples itself to the Free version, I remembered why I had
previously abandoned this newsreader as incompetent. It will not support
multiple news servers. In Outlook Express (and, I think, in Thunderbird)
you can define multiple news server to which the NNTP client will
connect. This is not possible in Agent. I believe there was a workaround
where you use multiple configuration files and specify which one to use
in different shortcuts to start Agent, but this means that I have to
bother going through this manual setup and I also cannot jump between
news servers without having to exit and then reload Agent. No one using
Agent over the years has ever expressed that they visit multiple news
servers?
I got a list of newsgroups from my single news server. Okay, now how do
I subscribe to the ones that I visit regularly? Sure I can scroll
through the list of 80,000 newsgroups but I have better things to do.
When I search on "subscribe" in its help, I get a description of NEWSRC
files instead. If I do a search, I have to enter enough of the the
newsgroup name to get a single match highlighted in the newsgroup list
pane as opposed to OE that shows me progressively all matching newsgroup
names as I progressively enter more of a portion of the newsgroup name.
I have to use Find Next to scroll through the list of possible matches.
Note that Search is disabled until you highlight a newsgroup; if none
are highlighted (the situation on its first load), search is disabled.
This interface sucks.

Rather than show my e-mail as a separate message store, the Inbox is
simply packed in with the list of newsgroups.
The primary reason that I wanted to trial Agent was to see if its
ability to killfile was better than what I can define in Outlook
Express. Nope, Agent is just as impotent as OE. I can killfile on e-mail
address, moniker (sender name),
In OE, I can define a kill filter without even having a message selected
or open; i.e., I can define a rule based on info that I already possess
without having to go find a post from the sender. In Agent, Add Filter
is disabled until I select a message. What if that is not the message
upon which I want to define a kill filter? Okay, so I select the post
for a sender that want to killfile. Since they use a mail2news gateway
(i.e., anonymous remailer), I cannot filter on Author or E-mail Address
(these change or are bogus on each post they make). However, I don't
want anything sent from that remailer so I figure to filter on the
"NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.187.225.31" header and enter that, select Delete,
but when I click OK a message pops up saying, "It is not possible to
filter for field NNTP-Posting-Host".

Oh, great, so Agent is just as impotent as OE to define kill filters. I
can define "subject: sendername" but not other qualifiers (where
"qualifier" really means in which header to restrict the search). "In
addition, you can use so-called expression qualifiers to limit the
search to selected fields." Okay, so how about listing what qualifiers
are supported. Obviously NNTP-Posting-Host is not supported. From what I
found in the included help, the miniscule qualifiers available are
"subject:" and "author:" (or "from:"). Oh, wow, what a huge list of
qualifiers - NOT! I can also definitely scrap the idea of trying to
check for "!mail2news" to be at the end of the string using regular
expressions in the PATH header. Why is it so hard to let the user
search on ANY particular header that may occur in a post? Even e-mail
filtering has a severely restricted list of qualifiers (i.e., headers)
that you can specify. Having regular expressions is great but rendered
toothless if you cannot specify ANY particular header in which to
perform the search. I can't be the only user that has ever wanted to
filter newsgroup posts based on headers *other* than just subject and
author.

Well, Agent gets put on hold and probably will get uninstalled while I
go to investigate Thunderbird.
 
*Vanguard* said:
Do you have the full version of Agent to check? I just downloaded it.
The download is not the free version but is instead the full version
which cripples itself after the trial period unless you pay and register
it.
Click to expand...

That's what FreeAgent is these days, the full Agent package with some
features disabled. But you must have misinterpreted something
somewhere, FreeAgent does not kill itself after a trial period. You
can use it for as long as you like.

What the Agent web page says is that you can download Agent, and use
the entire package free for thirty days. (So you would be able to
check the full array of search capabilities for your self.) If by that
time you have not sent $29 to register the program it will turn into
Free Agent by disabling many of its functions. It remains a very
usable Usenet client. It will send email, but not receive it. You
can't use the kill list, and some other functions.
Just looking for a heads up to know if Agent gives me the
ability to search ANY header in a post (to see if it exists or to check
for a value or substring after it).
Click to expand...

Looks like it to me.
 
*Vanguard* said:
Cannot specify a non-standard port for the POP3 mail server.
Click to expand...

Yes you can, but you have to make an easy edit to the ini file.Find
the [Servers] section and put whatever you want as the value for
POPPort (you'll see a default value of 110). Yeah, it should be in the
dialog box. Maybe we'll see it there in the next release.
 
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Cannot specify a non-standard port for the POP3 mail server. I go
through SpamPal for spam filtering which accepts POP3 connections but I
have it configured to monitor for POP3 connects on port 7110, not on the
standard port of 110. This is the first e-mail capable client that I
have encountered where I cannot specify what port it will use to connect
to the POP3 server. This severe deficiency makes Agent completely
unusable to me for e-mail. While I had no intention of using Agent as my
e-mail client for my non-news accounts, I had expected to use it for my
news-related e-mail account (the one published in the Reply-To header in
my posts). Guess not!

After installing Agent again, which is the 30-day trial version before
it cripples itself to the Free version, I remembered why I had
previously abandoned this newsreader as incompetent. It will not support
multiple news servers. In Outlook Express (and, I think, in Thunderbird)
you can define multiple news server to which the NNTP client will
connect. This is not possible in Agent. I believe there was a workaround
where you use multiple configuration files and specify which one to use
in different shortcuts to start Agent, but this means that I have to
bother going through this manual setup and I also cannot jump between
news servers without having to exit and then reload Agent. No one using
Agent over the years has ever expressed that they visit multiple news
servers?
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