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The ConnectTHOR Internet module

ConnectTHOR is used for integrating CfgTCP, SendTCP and GetTCP into a single program. It also contains a nice news browser what will let you select a newsgroup and download only the articles you want by selecting them from a list with multi-selection. The options available are:

Do All
This option will send pending events you have created, then collect new mail and news, all in a single operation.
Get Mail
This option will collect mail from your configured POP3 mailserver.
Get News
This option will collect news from your configured NNTP newsserver.
Send Events
This option will send pending events (eg. news and mail postings you have written).
Config TCP
This option will let you configure TCP options using the section The Config TCP Internet configuration program program.
Browse News
Selecting this option will make ConnectTHOR connect to your configured NNTP newsserver, and then open a window that will let you interactively browse newsgroups. The following options are available in this window:
Newsgroup
This string gadget will let you enter manually a newsgroup to connect to. When you press return after having entered the name, ConnectTHOR will connect to this group on the newsserver and update the slider gadgets accordingly. If you enter a newsgroup not present on the newsserver, ConnectTHOR will warn you about this.
Group List
If you select this option, a window containing all newsgroups on the newsserver will come up. (NOTE: If you haven't collected a list of groups using GetConfList in THOR and then Send Events, only newsgroups you have previously received messages in will come up here). You can then select a newsgroup to browse.
Group Hotlist
ConnectTHOR's newsbrowser maintains a list of newsgroups you have previously browsed in an internal list, that will be saved to disk when you exit the browser. The message pointer will also be saved. By selecting this option. you will be able to select a newsgroup from this "hotlist" of newsgroups. NOTE: This hotlist is NOT connected to the subscribed newsgroups in THOR in any way.
From
This is from-message number that will be used when collecting the headers.
To
This is to-message number that will be used when collecting the headers.
Get Headers
This option will collect some information from the message headers in the current newsgroup and shown them in the listview in the browse window. What information you can collect depends on the newsserver. On most newsservers, you will atleast get messages numbers and subjects. However, INN and compatible newsservers supports sending more information. On these type of servers, you will also get the messages sizes and who wrote the message.
Get Articles
When you have selected the articles you want, you can use this option to collect these articles from the newsserver.
Clear/Mark
With clear or select all entries in the listview, depending on if there are selected entries or not.
Group by
Will let you group the collected headers by MsgNr (default), Subject or Author.
Edit Hotlist
Will let you remove entries from the hotlist maintained by ConnectTHOR.
Filter Crosspostings
This option, when enabled, will make sure you only see crossposted articles once in the current browse section.

ConnectTHOR is also a commodity and supports the following tooltypes and command line arguments:

SYSTEM
This is the configured system in THOR that will be used to collect news and mail into, and send mail and news from.
PUBSCREEN
This is the public screen that ConnectTHOR will use when first started.
CHECKDELAY (PERIODIC)
This is the number of minutes between each time you want ConnectTHOR to collect mail for you.
IMMEDIATE
Will make ConnectTHOR collect new mail on startup automatically.
BROWSENEWS
Using this argument will make ConnectTHOR open the news browser directly on startup.
NEWSGROUP
This argument is used in cooperation with BROWSENEWS, and contains the name of the newsgroup to get the headers for.
CX_PRIORITY
This is the priority ConnectTHOR is to have in the commodities input events chain.
CX_POPKEY
This is the shortcut that must be used to pop ConnectTHOR to front if it's hidden.
CX_POPUP
Set this to YES if you want ConnectTHOR to open its window each time you start it.


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