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  • Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbi

    From Mindsurfer@VERT/FUNTOPIA to Gamgee on Monday, November 03, 2025 01:15:00
    Re: Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
    By: Gamgee to Mindsurfer on Sun Nov 02 2025 16:06:36

    Any other Newsgroup Reader out there beside Thunderbird?

    I have always preferred 'Pan'.

    looks really decent. But in the short time i have tested Pan, i could not make it show the actual message but the headers only.

    Mindsurfer

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to Mindsurfer on Sunday, November 02, 2025 19:43:43
    Mindsurfer wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Re: Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
    By: Gamgee to Mindsurfer on Sun Nov 02 2025 16:06:36

    Any other Newsgroup Reader out there beside Thunderbird?

    I have always preferred 'Pan'.

    looks really decent. But in the short time i have tested Pan, i could
    not make it show the actual message but the headers only.

    Well, have you tried looking at the "View" section in the top toolbar?

    I mean....



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  • From Mindsurfer@VERT/FUNTOPIA to Gamgee on Monday, November 03, 2025 17:33:00
    Re: Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbi
    By: Gamgee to Mindsurfer on Sun Nov 02 2025 19:43:43

    Any other Newsgroup Reader out there beside Thunderbird?

    I have always preferred 'Pan'.

    looks really decent. But in the short time i have tested Pan, i could not
    make it show the actual message but the headers only.

    Well, have you tried looking at the "View" section in the top toolbar?
    I mean....

    I have installed Pan once again to check if i missed a setting and what can i say. It does show the body now. No idea what was wrong before or if it takes some time to load the body for each message after the headers. i don't know.

    Mindsurfer

    PS: is there a way to make Newsreaders (Pan) show color Ansi?

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  • From Mindsurfer@VERT/FUNTOPIA to Accession on Monday, November 03, 2025 17:42:00
    Re: Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
    By: Accession to Stephan Gebbers on Sun Nov 02 2025 20:25:17

    i made some funky test posts using Thunderbird and Pan on FSXNet.
    Here's a post using slrn, which shells out to nano when I post or reply.
    The "From" field includes an email in one post and the "To" field contains
    the "newsgroup area tag" etc. It is Usenet that has to fit into FTNs.

    Ok, thats interesting. i might send out some more tests and watch how the actual message looks outside the Newsreader, in the BBS.

    I'm not sure why Thunderbird put the newsgroup area tag in the "To" field, but that can probably be changed in your Thunderbird settings. Out of both posts that came through, neither of them show your email in the "From" field, so either Synchronet or clrghaus probably removed that for you.

    One of the main things that bothers me about NNTP is by default all of your posts will be "To: All" unless you are able to force the "x-comment-to" field, which is doable in slrn as you can see this message is to you. It's also doable with Thunderbird with some messing with the config, but it's ugly.

    I accidently messed up an smtp server setting in Thunderbird while testing around with the newsgroups yesterday. Took me a while to add that SMTP again and to find out that i have an application password for that Email provider different from the providers website login =) LOL

    still thinking about if i want to test slrn. Not sure if i want another TUI interface for reading/posting messages.

    Mindsurfer

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