Configuring the news account
Now we must tell KNode about where we get the news from or
where to send the articles to later on. In the list on the
right, there is an
Accounts
entry; click on it and choose the
Newsgroup servers
tab, because we first want to configure
the news account: the list of accounts is still empty.
To create a new account click on
Add...
. The
following dialog appears:
-
Name
-
The
Name
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
My News Account
.
-
Server
-
The next field is labelled
Server
. Unlike
the field
Name
, 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.)
For our example configuration we enter the name
news.server.com
; you will,
of course, enter the real name of your news server.
-
Port
-
You probably will not need to change this from the default in most
cases.
