The K Desktop Environment

5.2. The NNTP Configuration dialog

Here you can configure your NNTP servers, and any options associated with them.

Servers

This section contains two options:

SMTP server

Your outgoing mail server. If you don't run a local mail server, you can get this information from your ISP.

NNTP Server

Here you can enter your remote newsserver. If you are not running a local server, you can get this information from your ISP. This is a dropdown list, so you can enter more than one server. This is especially useful if you like to read news from private servers, for example, Netscapes private servers, or Sun news. All the options following this one apply to the currently selected newsserver in this box.

Connect on Startup

Open a connection to the newsserver as soon as KRN is opened.

Connect without asking

Ask you with a popup message if it's ok to connect to the newsserver.

Authenticate

If your newsserver requires you to provide a username and password to use it's services, check this box.

User Name

If you have checked the Authenticate checkbox, you can enter the username for the currently selected server in this text box.

Password

If you have checked the Authenticate checkbox, you can enter the password for the currently selected server in this text box. KRN will hide any characters you type with a *, to protect your privacy.

Ask before downloading more than

This sets the limit of articles KRN will download automatically, without asking if it's ok. If there are more articles than this within your criteria to download, you will see a popup dialog when you try to download, telling you how many articles are currently available, and asking how many you wish to download at this time. From this popup dialog, you can also reset the number shown here, by checking the box that says Reset the threshold

Click on the OK button to close this dialog and save your changes, and click on the Cancel button to close the dialog without saving your changes.