features

• General
  • Online and offline viewing.
  • Multithreaded interface - view messages whilst replying to others, and having preferences windows open, continue to use the program whilst uploading and downloading news.
  • Multiple users, each with their own logins, optional password protection, newsgroups listings, preferences, and location on hard disk for storing news messages.
  • Import function which reads in all news items from a given directory (and all sub-directories) allowing you to easily import news from your old newsreader.
  • Option to delete messages after a certain number of days.
  • Multiple newsservers.
  • Download Group list (for each newsserver).
  • Group list Manager - view all groups, search for groups.
  • Obtain New Newsgroups from newsserver option.
  • Can access newsservers which need user/password authentification.
  • Can view newsgroups list in a 'tree' format.
  • Choose what information to display in the messages list (eg, From, Subject, Size etc).
  • "Graphical" Toolbar (it has the capacity for graphics, but no graphics currently supplied so it's still text-only atm - please send me some!)
• Control Over Which Posts to Download
  • Killfile on any header.
  • Killfiles can either be created manually, or automatically from a particular message (eg, kill this thread, kill messages from this author, etc).
  • Keep track of creation date in killfiles.
  • Auto-expire date for killfiles (either since creation, or since last used).
  • Choose not to download messages greater than a certain number of lines (limit can be set for each newsgroups).
  • Can limit the number of posts to download for each newsgroup (in which case, only the most recent ones are downloaded).
  • Special 'advert' killfile which kills messages with subject line ending in a number with at least three digits (such messages tend to be adverts or other commercial spams).
• Viewing Messages
  • Configure which headers to display.
  • View messages by subject, sender, date etc.
  • View messages as 'threaded' list
  • MIME Version 1.0 for decoding files - can decode Quoted-Printable, base64 and uuencoded messages.
  • Save/View messages/images/etc (either all, or individual parts in multipart messages).
  • MIME Preferences - for viewing MIME messages with external programs of your choice.
  • HTML only messages are converted to text.
  • Button on view window to delete current message and move onto the next one.
  • Button on view window to go to previous message in this thread (ie, one that the message was replying to).
  • .sig separator '-- ' appears as a graphical line.
  • Messages which you haven't read yet are marked as 'Unread'.
  • *, /, _ and # are converted to bolds, italics, underlines and coloured - but this can be turned off (no more unreadable programming NGs that you get in some newsreaders).
  • Coloured quoted text.
  • Configurable colours for quoted text and '#' coloured text.
  • Find Text option.
  • Rot13 decode selected text.
  • Can mark messages as being 'Important' (they are then highlighted).
• Composing Messages
  • Email support to reply to sender.
  • Recognises 'Followup-To: poster' header, and warns accordingly.
  • Option to snip .sig when followingup/replying.
  • Automatic rewrapping of text when replying - no more overspilling lines.
  • Rot13 encode selected text.
  • Attachments - base64 encoding.
  • Can read in from a text file to insert into the message you are writing.
  • 'Pop up' window to easily select a newsgroup or groups to place in the To: and Followup-To: fields (including 'Followup-To: poster').
  • You can have eight signatures, with a default specified for each newsgroup.
  • Can either edit .sigs in the program, or read in from a text file.
  • Post Immediately, Queue or Postpone messages.
  • 'Supersede message' option, to replace your old messages on a newsserver.
  • 'Cancel message' option, to cancel one of your old messages on a newsserver.
  • Option to place 'X-No-Archive: yes' in the header (either for all messages, or when you are following up to a message that has it in the header).
  • You can edit your name / email that will appear on the message you are currently writing.
  • Can optionally specify an 'Organization'.
  • Option to automatically add an 'Approved:' header, for newsgroup moderators.
  • Customised attributation line.
  • Can specify alternative name and/or email address for each newsgroup individually.
• Miscellaneous
  • Archive messages into a single text file.
  • Search facilities - can search in a particular header, or in any header, the message body, or the entire message.
  • Statistics options (eg, how many messages posted by each person, etc).
  • Can display 'alternative name' instead of actual newsgroup name in groups list window.
  • 'Deleted' folder, rather than deleting messages immediately.
  • Move/Copy messages between folders.
  • Text based toolbar on main window.
  • Month names ('Jan', 'Feb', etc) are translated to the local language for your computer.
  • Option to reset 'article pointers' (useful if you switch newsserver being used for a newsgroup).
  • Select all/none/toggle messages.
  • Can export an author's name/email address to YAM's addressbook.
  • Option to delete all 'online' messages that you haven't yet downloaded the body for.
  • Easy to use interface.
  • AmigaGuide documentation.
  • 'Bubble Help' for virtually all gadgets.
  • Installer script.
  • Number of messages displayed for each group.
  • AREXX port.
  • Iconify option.
  • Y2K compliant.

Also see known bugs.