Internet Mail and News Help

Displaying Topics and Messages

If the newsgroup window is not open, choose Newsgroups from the Windows menu.
In the newsgroup window, select the newsgroup that you want to read.
On the News menu, choose Go To Newsgroup. A status window will appear, showing the number of articles downloading.
In the Subject list, click the article you want to read.
Read the text of the article in the preview pane under the subject list

Tips

To open the message in a separate window, double-click the message.
Messages that are a part of a series of responses to an original message are gathered together and stored with the original message. To see the replies to a message, click the triangle to the left of the original message.
To search for the newsgroup you want to read, type a word that is in the newsgroup title in the Display Newsgroups Containing field.
To search for the article you want to read, type a word that is in the message subject in the Display Subjects Containing field.
Click the column titles in the News window to sort the news messages.

In the Newsgroup window, find a newsgroup you want to read and double-click it to see the articles.
In the Display Subjects Containing field above the message list, enter the word(s) that are contained in the subject of the message you are looking for. As you type, only the subjects that match what you have typed will be visible.
To show the entire list of messages again, delete the text in the Display Subjects Containing field.

Related Topics
Searching for a newsgroup
Sorting news messages

In the Newsgroup window, find a newsgroup you want to read and double-click it to see the articles.
Click on the column heading you want to sort by.

Tips

To change the sort order, click the column heading you want to sort by. You will see a triangle appear representing the current sort order. To switch between ascending and descending sort order, click the column heading again.
You can change which columns are displayed by pointing to Columns on the Edit menu, and then checking and unchecking columns as needed.

Related Topics
Resizing the windows and columns

Tip

News message are encoded to prevent you for "accidentally" reading something that you would not have chosen to read. For example, reviews or disscusions of movies that involve revealing the plot and ending are often encoded so that people who have not seen the movie will not have it spoiled for them.

Tips

To quickly download multiple enclosures, shift-select the messages that contain them, and them choose Extract Binaries on the News menu.
If a file that you receive from the Internet is compressed and encoded (for example "example.sit.hqx"), Internet Mail and News will unencode it for you, but you will need to have a program, such as Stuffit, to uncompress it.

Related Topic
Viewing file enclosures using helpers

Tips

You will need to assign a helper in Internet Config for the file type you are downloading.
If you do not have View Enclosures Using Helper Applications checked in Preferences, hold down the Option key while you do this.

Related Topic
Saving file enclosures

Select the news message that you want to download and save.
On the Message menu, point to Move Message To and select a folder from the pop-up menu.

Tips

On the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
Click Display.
In the Newsgroups area, enter the number of news messages you want to download at one time in the Download Message Subjects At A Time field. Click OK.

Tip

After the specific number of news messages have been downloaded, choose Get Next "#" Subjects to see the next group of news messages.

Related Topic
Reading news messages