Newsgroup reader

[TMC]

Hi all

I have always used outlook express and then windows mail to access newsgroups along with managing emails

I will need to move to Outlook as I have to run an app that has a plug in written just for that

I do not think that Outlook has a newsreader

What newsreader should I use?

Regards

[Davey]

Anything that does not use Windows as its OS.

[Martin Brown]

Thunderbird is pretty good and free. It will also do email.

[TMC]

As I support lots of business clients who all use windows I have no choice as I need to be able to replicate their problems

However I would never ever ever knock Windows as it has kept me in work for many years

Regards

[Peter Parry]

Forte Agent,

$29 but well worth it.

[David WE Roberts]

Why not stick with Windows Mail if it works for you? Set Outlook as your default mail handler and leave Windows Mail as your default news reader.

[Mark]

There's plenty of non-microsoft newsreaders that work on Windows. I use Agent. I avoid Microsoft mail and news clients completely since they do not conform to standards.

[dennis]

You could just carry on using outlook express/LM. You just remove the email accounts and add /newsonly to the command invoking OE/LM.

[John Rumm]

Nothing to stop you continuing with OE or Windows mail if that is what you are used to. Using outlook for mail does not stop them operating for newsgroups.

Thunderbird ought not be too much of a culture shock from what you currently use.

[John Rumm]

Do Microsoft pay you to drive users to them?

Reverse psychology and all that... make it look like all "alternative" OS users are all unhelpful drooling trolls, and sell another copy of Win 7.

[Davey]

Agreed. Usually if there is a problem with the display of somebody's post, such as the text below a sig. line being displayed, it is because they have used one of MS's products, which did not treat the original message the way it should have done.

[Graham.]

Well I never knew that.

even endeavours to lose the "Express" qualifier and pretends it's full blown Outlook.

It's far too late too late to win me back though.

[John Rumm]

Details of how, shown here:

[TMC]

Thanks for all the replies

will have a look at all of the suggestions

I was looking at migrating everything to Outlook as an easy option for my email accounts and contacts and using something non Microsoft for my newsreader and was interested to know what others use.

Regards

[John Williamson]

I use Thunderbird, which will not only "do" usenet, it will also import Outlook and OE mail accounts. I'm just not sure how successfully, as I've never used OE.

[Davey]

Perfectly, in my experience a couple of years ago.

[Arfa Daily]

Xnews. Free. Simple. Works.

Arfa

[Bob Martin]

Write your own (this is uk.d-i-y).

[Plusnet]

Gravity (for text groups) ditto.

[Peter Parry]

It is actually one of those programs which is so good that I have no problem with paying the quite modest price asked in the hope the relatively small company which produces it will continue.