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Account Configuration

Basics

Tools → Accounts...
Switch to tab "News"
Add → News...

Chose apropriate "Display name" and "E-mail address:". These two values are published in your postings. According to our Terms Of Use the e-mail address must be valid and at the user's disposal. Alternatively the top level domain (TLD) "invalid" may be used, e.g. foobar@invalid.invalid.

Server Name

Logon

Fill in the values of "Username:" and "Password:" that you received from us by e-mail.

Recommended Configuration

8-bit Characters in Header Fields

By default OE sends 8-bit characters in header fields (e.g. From: or Subject:) without proper declaration. Quite often this does not survive transport through Usenet and ends up as garbled characters.

Correct settings:

Tools → Options... → Send → "News Sending Format"

• Switch to "Plain Text"

Tools → Options... → Send → Plain Text Settings...

• select message format "MIME"
• Encode text using: None
• disable "Allow 8-bit characters in headers"

This picture also shows a very large number for "Automatically wrap text". The problem with this feature is that there is no preview, it is applied when you send the message. Since overlong lines are a small problem compared to inapropriate line wrappings, it is recommended to deactivate this feature.

Optional Configuration

NNTP over SSL (NNTPS)

Switching from plain-text to encrypted communication is a separate step not covered by the configuration wizard.

Open the property page of your news account:

• either Right click on "news.albasani.net", then "Properties"
• or Tools → Accounts..., select "news.albasani.net", click "Properties"

Change to the tab "Advanced".