Configuring Your Newsreader

The Newscast server can be used with any newsreader that follows the NNTP protocol. The Newscast server supports multiple newsreader connections.

To configure your newsreader:

1. Enter localhost or 127.0.0.1 for the news server address. This is the address of your local machine.
2. If your newsreader requires you to enter a port number, enter 119.
3. If you have subscribed to protected groups, you should configure your newsreader to log on to the Newscast server. The username can be anything and the password should be your configured Newscast password.

** Security Warning: Once you configure a news reader to provide the correct password and subscribe to protected groups, this group list is available to anyone who runs the reader in the future, even without knowing the password. Also, if some of these protected articles are locally cached they may be accessible. The password protection provided by Newscast only prevents unauthorized people from retrieving group lists and accessing articles in protected groups from the Newscast database - it cannot control what material is stored by the news reader and accessed from the news reader.

Using the Import function with your newsreader

If you are using Netscape Collabra, Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Outlook Express, or Forte Free Agent as your newsreader, you can take advantage of the newsgroup import feature of Newscast. This allows you to subscribe to newsgroups in your newsreader and simply import the subscribed newsgroup list into Newscast. Please see the Newsgroup Import section for more details.