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Posted by Jim C Roberts on May 22, 2008, 9:21 pm
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Greetings all,
Subject says it all, how can I get my Newsgroups in Mozilla Thunderbird?
I had to dump OE, too much trouble blocking spam e-mail, but I can not
figure out how to get my NG's. Any and all help appreciated, but it may be
a few days before I get to check back in with this thread, so if you do not
see my immediate reply I do appreciate the help.
Regards,
Jim
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Posted by RoyJ on May 22, 2008, 11:14 pm
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Open Thunderbird, click on 'tools', 'account settings', 'add new
account', add 'Newsgroup', enter data as required. You will need the
Newsgroup access settings your service provider specifies.
I'd suggest a 'munged' return e-mail address, there are 'bots' that
harvest e-mail addresses from newsgroups.
Jim C Roberts wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> Subject says it all, how can I get my Newsgroups in Mozilla Thunderbird?
> I had to dump OE, too much trouble blocking spam e-mail, but I can not
> figure out how to get my NG's. Any and all help appreciated, but it may be
> a few days before I get to check back in with this thread, so if you do not
> see my immediate reply I do appreciate the help.
>
> Regards,
> Jim
>
>
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Posted by Jim C Roberts on May 23, 2008, 4:43 pm
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> Open Thunderbird, click on 'tools', 'account settings', 'add new account',
> add 'Newsgroup', enter data as required. You will need the Newsgroup
> access settings your service provider specifies.
>
> I'd suggest a 'munged' return e-mail address, there are 'bots' that
> harvest e-mail addresses from newsgroups.
Thank you Roy and Martin for your replies. Between the 2 of you I was
able to get back into the NG, for better or worse. :)
And Yes Roy, munging the e-mail addy is absolutely necessary, learned that
lesson the hard way a few years back, actually gave me a good excuse to drop
my former ISP, CABLE ROCKS!! LOL
Jim
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Posted by Terry Coombs on May 25, 2008, 2:42 pm
Please log in for more thread options Jim C Roberts wrote:
>> Open Thunderbird, click on 'tools', 'account settings', 'add new
>> account', add 'Newsgroup', enter data as required. You will need the
>> Newsgroup access settings your service provider specifies.
>>
>> I'd suggest a 'munged' return e-mail address, there are 'bots' that
>> harvest e-mail addresses from newsgroups.
>
>
> Thank you Roy and Martin for your replies. Between the 2 of you I
> was able to get back into the NG, for better or worse. :)
>
> And Yes Roy, munging the e-mail addy is absolutely necessary,
> learned that lesson the hard way a few years back, actually gave me a
> good excuse to drop my former ISP, CABLE ROCKS!! LOL
>
> Jim
If your isp allows more than one email account, set up a second one to use
for newsgroups , etc . Check it once in a while , sometimes something
worthwhile comes up ... for instance the email I sent to a web hosting
service (friend of mine) that ended up in his spam trap .
Yes , he's now hosting my new domain .
--
Snag
'90 Ultra "Strider"
'39 WLDD "Popcycle"
Buncha cars and a truck
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Posted by RoyJ on May 25, 2008, 3:15 pm
Please log in for more thread options My ISP has 8 e-mail addresses included in the account setup. I use one
as the master that only a few people know about. Another is a common
mispelling of the the first account. I set that account's 'reply to' as
the correct spelling, things get fixed without a hassle.
I have a couple more set up as throwaways, these are the ones that get
set up to give to those miserable folks that require registration to
access some data base. If it gets spammed, I just shut it down, create a
new one.
Thunderbird allows multiple multiple e-mail accounts including mixing
POP servers and IMAP servers. Each account can have it's own signature
block, message blocking, message transfers, etc. Allows having one clean
interface to both business, school, personal, and throwaway accounts.
> If your isp allows more than one email account, set up a second one to use
> for newsgroups , etc . Check it once in a while , sometimes something
> worthwhile comes up ... for instance the email I sent to a web hosting
> service (friend of mine) that ended up in his spam trap .
> Yes , he's now hosting my new domain .
>
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> Subject says it all, how can I get my Newsgroups in Mozilla Thunderbird?
> I had to dump OE, too much trouble blocking spam e-mail, but I can not
> figure out how to get my NG's. Any and all help appreciated, but it may be
> a few days before I get to check back in with this thread, so if you do not
> see my immediate reply I do appreciate the help.
>
> Regards,
> Jim
>
>