Mailing List with Thunderbird

[Mike Driscoll]

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Edwards [mailto:grante at visi.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 10:57 PM
To: wxpython-users at lists.wxwidgets.org
Subject: Re: Mailing List with Thunderbird

On 2007-03-01, Christian K <ckkart at hoc.net> wrote:
> Eli Golovinsky <gooli <at> tuzig.com> writes:
>
>> 
>> You should configure a News account (Tools > Account Settings > New
>> Account) that points to the news.gmane.org news server.
>> 
>> Just subscribe to the gmane.comp.pythonn.wxpython newsgroup and be 
>> done with it. I use this scheme with great satisfaction.
>
> How do you do that?

edit -> account settings
click "add account"
click "newsgroupt account"
enter real-name and e-mail, click "next"
enter news.gmane.org as server name, click "next"
enter an account name (e.g. gmane), click "next"
click "finish"
click "OK"

click on the new gmane entry in the folders pane.
click "manage newsgroups"
<newsgroups are downloaded>
click down through the tree widget to gmane.comp.python.wxpython check the box next to gmane.comp.python.wxpython click "OK"

click on the new g.c.p.wxpython entry in the folders pane.
a dialog comes up asking how many headers to download click "OK" to accept the default of 500 (or change it if you want) <headers are downloaded> threads appear in the right-hand pane.

> Thunderbird doesn't show me a list of groups to subscribe to.
> It tries to fetch the list though, but it is empty. I have not found a 
> way to subscribe manually.

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Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow!  Now I can join WEIGHT
                                  at               WATCHERS!
                               visi.com            


I can see why Christian was frustrated. The instructions work until I do the "manage newsgroups". Then it gives me an error of "cannot connect to server. The connection was refused." Weird. I use Windows XP SP2, but maybe I am blocked because of the company firewall?

Mike