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- From: Jonathan Duddington <jsd@argonet.co.uk>
- Subject: Get Going: NewsHound & !POP
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 03:00:00
- Source: Docs
-
- Installation
- ============
-
- Run !NewsHound and !POP. This is necessary so that they set up various
- system variables which say where files and directories are.
-
- Copy the !Pluto application directory out of the distribution archive and
- into an ordinary directory on your harddisc.
-
- From the !Pluto iconbar menu, select Preferences->News.
-
- Click over the box to the right of "News Transport" and select
- "NewsHound" from the menu. For the "Mail Transport" select "POP"
- (or "FreeSMTP" if that's the mail fetcher that you are using).
-
- This will look at the system variables which NewsHound and !POP have
- set up to indicate where the News and Mail incoming and outgoing
- directories are. Pluto also reads NewsHound's subscribed-newsgroups
- list at this point.
-
- Once this has been done, then it can find them even though NewsHound
- and !POP is not running.
-
-
- !POP
- ====
-
- In the POP Mail Transport Settings window, set the following:
-
- (Incoming) Mailbox File: <POP$MailDir>.spool.mail
-
- Set the "RMail" option.
-
- (Outgoing) Queue Directory: <POP$MailDir>.spool.mqueue
-
-
-
- Set Up News Details
- ===================
-
- Set the "Domain" field to the part of your email address which follows
- @ symbol, eg. "argonet.co.uk" or "something.demon.co.uk".
-
- Set the U.name field to your main email name (i.e. the name before
- the @ in your email address). This is only used by Pluto in the
- Path: line in outgoing news postings.
-
-
- Click OK.
-
-
- Set Up User/Mail Details
- ========================
-
- From the !Pluto icon bar icon, select Lists->Users.
-
- This should bring up a Users list which contains one user name -
- Fred Bloggs. Double-click on this to bring up the User dialogue box.
-
- Change the "User Id" to your user name. This is the name that
- precedes the "@" character in your email address.
-
- Type your full name into "Name".
-
- Make sure that the "In Box" and "Log Box" fields are set to
- the document boxes into which you want incoming and logged-outgoing
- mails to appear.
-
- To set up a signature file for this user, click on the "Edit Sig"
- button. This brings up an editor window into which you can type
- your sig. If you already have a signature file somewhere, just drop
- it into this text window.
-
- Click OK.
-
-
- If you have additional email addresses, these can be added by
- clicking the Add button (black Plus sign icon) on the Users list
- window.
-
- You may want to use different "In Box" and "Log Box" for each email
- address, so you may need to create additional document Boxes for
- these. See below.
-
-
-
- Transfering Stored News From NewsBase
- =====================================
-
- To copy a directory containing stored news articles from NewsBase
- into Pluto:
-
- Look in !NewsDir.Newsbase and find the directory which contains the
- news articles. Drag the directory onto the Pluto icon bar icon.
-
-
- This will load all the files (recursively) into the article data
- base. They will be placed in the document Box which is specified in
- the "In Box" field of the Preferences->News dialogue.
-
- If you have a lot of news articles stored, then this will take some
- time.
-
- Click with Select on the !Pluto icon bar icon to open the list of
- Boxes. The numbers on the line for "News In" indicate the number of
- unread and read articles respectively in that box.
-
- Double click on the "News In" line to open the "News In" box. An
- empty window, titled "News In" should appear. It's empty because
- the News In box is set up to show only unread articles.
-
- Click on the Up/Down arrow button (last on the right on the button
- bar) to toggle between showing all or just unread articles.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Debatching Incoming News and Mail
- =================================
-
- Run !INewsHound and !POP Connect to fetch news and mail from the Internet.
-
- Once Transfer is complete,
- Click on the "Fetch" button of !Pluto's Boxes list window to debatch
- the news and mail articles from the incoming raw news and mail
- files.
-
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