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<title>Usenet News</title>

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<para>You can find &knode; in the <guimenu>K</guimenu> Menu under the
<guisubmenu>Internet</guisubmenu> entry: the menu entry
<guimenuitem>KNode</guimenuitem> launches the program.</para>


<para>The main window of &knode; should now be displayed on your
desktop as shown; on the first start, the settings dialog will be
invoked.</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Setting up &knode;</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="knode-start.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>&knode; after first start</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption>
<para>&knode; after first start</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<sect1 id="knode-setting-your-identity"> 
<title>Personal settings</title>

<para>The first page of the settings dialog is for personal settings: </para>
<screenshot> 
<screeninfo>Dialog for entering personal information</screeninfo> 
<mediaobject> 
<imageobject> 
<imagedata fileref="knode-identity.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> 
<textobject> 
<phrase>Entering personal information</phrase> 
</textobject> 
<caption> 
<para>Entering personal information</para></caption> 
</mediaobject> 
</screenshot> 

<variablelist>

<varlistentry>
<term>
<guilabel>Name</guilabel></term> 
<listitem>
<para>In the field <guilabel>Name</guilabel>, enter your name. This
name will later appear in the newsgroups as sender, and can be seen by
anyone.</para>

<para>Filling out the field <guilabel>Name</guilabel> is
mandatory.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term> 
<guilabel>Email address</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>The email address you enter here will be used as sender in news
articles, &ie; as actual address of the author, in conjunction with
the real name (set in the field <guilabel>Name</guilabel>).</para>

<para>Filling out the <guilabel>Email Address</guilabel> field is
mandatory.</para>

</listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="knode-setting-the-news-account">
<title>Configuring the news account</title>


<para>Now we must tell &knode; about where we get the news from or
where to send the articles to later on. In the tree view on the
right, there is an <guilabel>Accounts</guilabel> entry; click on it
with the mouse; then, two sub entries will be opened out. Choose the
<guilabel>News</guilabel> entry, because we first want to configure
the news account: the list of accounts is still empty.</para>

<para>To create a new account click on <guibutton>New...</guibutton>. The
following dialog appears:</para>

<screenshot>
<screeninfo>The <guilabel>New Account</guilabel> dialog</screeninfo> 
<mediaobject> 
<imageobject> 
<imagedata fileref="knode-news-account.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> 
<textobject> 
<phrase>The <guilabel>New Account</guilabel> dialog</phrase> 
</textobject> 
<caption>
<para>The <guilabel>New Account</guilabel> dialog</para> 
</caption> 
</mediaobject> 
</screenshot> 

<variablelist>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Name</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>The <guilabel>Name</guilabel> field can be filled in as you
like; the text you enter will later be visible in the folder view. You
could, for example, enter the name of your Internet Provider; for our example we
enter the name <userinput>My News Account</userinput>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Server</guilabel></term>
<listitem>

<para>The next field is labelled <guilabel>Server</guilabel>. Unlike
the field <guilabel>Name</guilabel>, what you enter here is important.
The name of the news server is fixed and you should be able to get it
from your Internet service provider; if you do not know the name of
the news server, you should get it now: without this information you
cannot read any news. If your Internet service provider doesn't own a
news server you can use a public one (universities often provide
public news servers.)</para>

<para>For our example configuration we enter the name
<userinput><systemitem
class="systemname">news.server.com</systemitem></userinput>; you will,
of course, enter the real name of your news server.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Port</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>You probably will not need to change this from the default in most
cases.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="knode-setting-the-mail-account"> 
<title>Setting up the mail account</title> 

<para>Sometimes you need to answer to the author of an article
directly, without posting to the newsgroup; for example, when you want
to make a very personal comment or want to correct an error. If you
want to do this, select <guilabel>Mail</guilabel> in the tree view. The
following dialog box appears:</para> 

<screenshot> 
<screeninfo>Dialog Box for setting up the mail account</screeninfo> 
<mediaobject> 
<imageobject> 
<imagedata fileref="knode-mail-account.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> 
<textobject> 
<phrase>Setting up the mail account</phrase> 
</textobject> 
<caption> 
<para>Setting up the mail account</para> 
</caption> 
</mediaobject> 
</screenshot> 

<para>You will notice this dialog box is very similar to the news
account settings dialog box.</para>


<variablelist>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Server</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>The name (address) of your mail server as provided by your
Internet service provider or system administrator; all you have to do
here is enter the mail server's name in the
<guilabel>Server</guilabel> field.</para>

<para>In our example we enter <userinput><systemitem
class="systemname">mail.server.de</systemitem></userinput></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>


<varlistentry> 
<term><guilabel>Port</guilabel></term>
<listitem>

<para>Again, you probably will not need to change the
<guilabel>Port</guilabel> setting.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

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<listitem><para></para>
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