Re: How do I access news groups other then throught IE?

From: Wislu Plethora (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:54:38 -0700

>-----Original Message-----
>"davetest" <davexnetzerotwo@hooya!.com>
>wrote in news:5msgg05ck7milttmscodcsp093ammdsr8s@4ax.com:
>> Well they have their own group. Post there and ask the
>> product experts.
>> alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent
>
>Cannot specify a non-standard port for the POP3 mail
server. I go
>through SpamPal for spam filtering which accepts POP3
connections but I
>have it configured to monitor for POP3 connects on port
7110, not on the
>standard port of 110. This is the first e-mail capable
client that I
>have encountered where I cannot specify what port it will
use to connect
>to the POP3 server. This severe deficiency makes Agent
completely
>unusable to me for e-mail. While I had no intention of
using Agent as my
>e-mail client for my non-news accounts, I had expected to
use it for my
>news-related e-mail account (the one published in the
Reply-To header in
>my posts). Guess not!
>
>After installing Agent again, which is the 30-day trial
version before
>it cripples itself to the Free version, I remembered why
I had
>previously abandoned this newsreader as incompetent. It
will not support
>multiple news servers. In Outlook Express (and, I think,
in Thunderbird)
>you can define multiple news server to which the NNTP
client will
>connect. This is not possible in Agent. I believe there
was a workaround
>where you use multiple configuration files and specify
which one to use
>in different shortcuts to start Agent, but this means
that I have to
>bother going through this manual setup and I also cannot
jump between
>news servers without having to exit and then reload
Agent. No one using
>Agent over the years has ever expressed that they visit
multiple news
>servers?
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