Apple is forcing everyone to go 64-bit, which means the end for MT-Newswatcher, and its successor, Thoth, and a number of other cleints that folk seem to use. Luckily a whole new app called Usenapp is being developed by some geezer, and he is very responsive to feedback on his blog. So with most of us on uk.comp.sys.mac beta-testing it now, we may end up with something half-decent.
Click another message and then come back to the one that did not load.
Right click on the newsgroup in the list on the left, and select Properties. Synchronisation tab, turn on "Select this newsgroup for offline use", then download now.
Clients are a personal-taste issue. There's no reason for everyone to like Thunderbird. It doesn't have enough power-user features for everyone to like it. It has filtering... but just barely, and likely without REGEX or PCRE. To build a filter, there's a procedure to add a custom header item, which makes it possible to match on any random header field. But again, this hardly makes the filter feature usable. The only nice thing you can say is that "yes, it has some kind of non-descript filter".
When an older version complains "you can't send from two servers at once" or similar, you use the alternate URI formulation. Normally, to send to this group in Thunderbird, you'd enter the group name as:
uk.d-i-y
If the thing grumbles about the two servers thing, you use
nntp.aioe.org/uk.d-i-y nntp.aioe.org/uk.some.other.group
and what that does, is it forces Thunderbird to select the groups in question only from the named server. The servername being the leftmost value in the example.
Paul
Yes.
Open some other post, using an operation you know will force Thunderbird to go to the server and get it. Then, go back to the broken message that didn't load, and it might load for you.
This doesn't happen too often for me, but does pop up occasionally, as do corrupted MORK files. Keep recent backups of the profile for Thunderbird, just in case.
Paul
I find that a right click on the group, properties, and "Repair Folder" can fix some of the more notable cases of borkage.
That only downloads the bodies of headers already loaded. I want to download the bodies of new posts as they arrive: I don't use a 1200 baud modem.
Have you been to the server settings page in account settings, and ticked the boxes to "Check for messages at startup", and "Check for new messages every"?
Yes.
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