NNTP for Outlook

[Tygrinn]

Hey All,

I wondered if anyone here is familiar with NNTP support for Outlook.
There are a number of applications/plug-ins out there that deliver
messages from newsgroups as posted messages to a specified folder...
everything works perfectly fine for msnews.microsoft.com groups (like
this one), but I'm experiencing trouble with 'normal' groups (via
another server (news.planet.nl))

How common is it for a newsgroup server to be 'down' for a day or two?
Or has anybody had any experience with NNTP in Outlook? I'm sorry I
cannot give more detailed info...

- Tygrinn

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Outlook does not "do" NNTP - it uses Outlook Express for that function.

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After furious head scratching, Tygrinn asked:

| Hey All,
|
| I wondered if anyone here is familiar with NNTP support for Outlook.
| There are a number of applications/plug-ins out there that deliver
| messages from newsgroups as posted messages to a specified folder...
| everything works perfectly fine for msnews.microsoft.com groups (like
| this one), but I'm experiencing trouble with 'normal' groups (via
| another server (news.planet.nl))
|
| How common is it for a newsgroup server to be 'down' for a day or two?
| Or has anybody had any experience with NNTP in Outlook? I'm sorry I
| cannot give more detailed info...
|
| - Tygrinn

 

[Mark R Penn]

I think the OP was asking about the various plugins that do add NNTP support
to Outlook, not native support.

I used one for a while, and it was great. Worked very well indeed, and I had
no issues with any server. I only came back to OE because I couldn't justify
paying for a newsreader when I had OE for free!

They all work best in OL2003 though, because of it's "group by conversation"
feature - the natural way to read newsgroups.

Mark

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

If you feel adventurous, you might want to give IntraVNews a try - it is
free (as of right now) and may work for you.

For my setup, it caused a major hungapp so I uninstalled the version they
had available. It mayhave been fixed by now.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Mark R Penn asked:

| I think the OP was asking about the various plugins that do add NNTP
| support to Outlook, not native support.
|
| I used one for a while, and it was great. Worked very well indeed,
| and I had no issues with any server. I only came back to OE because I
| couldn't justify paying for a newsreader when I had OE for free!
|
| They all work best in OL2003 though, because of it's "group by
| conversation" feature - the natural way to read newsgroups.
|
| Mark
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || Outlook does not "do" NNTP - it uses Outlook Express for that
|| function.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Tygrinn asked:
||
||| Hey All,
|||
||| I wondered if anyone here is familiar with NNTP support for Outlook.
||| There are a number of applications/plug-ins out there that deliver
||| messages from newsgroups as posted messages to a specified folder...
||| everything works perfectly fine for msnews.microsoft.com groups
||| (like this one), but I'm experiencing trouble with 'normal' groups
||| (via another server (news.planet.nl))
|||
||| How common is it for a newsgroup server to be 'down' for a day or
||| two? Or has anybody had any experience with NNTP in Outlook? I'm
||| sorry I cannot give more detailed info...
|||
||| - Tygrinn