This Newsgroup on Outlook

[Guest]

Hi all,

What are the connection settings to access this newgroup server please? Do I
need to use SPA for example? And do I need to use my .NET Passport as the
login name?

Regards,

Toby

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

No on the last 2 questions. Microsoft's newsgroup server name is
msnews.microsoft.com and it does not require one to supply a user
id/password to access.

/neo

ps - when you say outlook, i'm assuming you meant outlook express since
microsoft outlook does not support newsgroups.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the help!

Outlook does have a newreader (A scaled down version of OE) If you add the
Custom Command "News" to the Go Menu.

Regards,

 

[Guest]

Still not able to connect to msnews

No on the last 2 questions. Microsoft's newsgroup server name is
msnews.microsoft.com and it does not require one to supply a user
id/password to access.

/neo

ps - when you say outlook, i'm assuming you meant outlook express since
microsoft outlook does not support newsgroups.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Actually that news command launches OE with the /newsonly command line
switch. (the switch shuts off mail support in OE.)

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

What error do you get? Does your provider allow access via port 119? (Many
large corps close it, if you are connecting from work.)

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[Brian Tillman]

Outlook does have a newreader (A scaled down version of OE) If you
add the Custom Command "News" to the Go Menu.

It's not actually a "scaled down" version. It is full Outlook Express but
run with the /outnews command line switch which reskins it and suppresses
the mail reading features.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Still not able to connect to msnews

Click on this and state what happens:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.general