Program configuration for Windows Live Mail

Make the following adjustments to use our news server:

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Start Windows Live Mail as usual.

2
Now the program window of Windows Live Mail is shown. The Microsoft news server is already configured (as "Microsoft Communities"). You will have to add our news server in order to use it. Click on Newsgroups

Choosing Newsgroups Tab

then Add newsgroups account.

Add a new newsgroups account

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In the dialog window, please enter your name (as it should appear on Usenet) in the field Display Name and click Next.

Wizard: Display Name

Please enter your correct e-mail address in the field E-mail address and click Next.

Wizard: Internet News E-mail Address

Enter the name of our news server: News.FU-Berlin.DE

Check My news server requires me to log on and click Next.

Wizard: Internet News Server Name

Enter the account details that you have received from us. Enter the "username" in the E-mail username field, the "password" in Password. Windows Live Mail will remember the password if you check Remember password.

It is not necessary to enter a password as long as you're on campus at Freie Universität Berlin, or connected via VPN or WLAN (but excluding Eduroam at other universities).

Note: This password is not your general ZEDAT password, but a special News password, which is assigned on request.

Wizard: Internet News Server Logon

Click Finish to confirm the end of this configuration part.

Wizard: Save settings

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After adding the news server you have the opportunity to get the list of available newsgroups. Select Show available newsgroups, but don't turn on Communities.

Show available Newsgroups

Now Windows Live Mail downloads the list of groups.

Downloading Newsgroups

Afterwards you can select the newsgroups you are interested in. Select each group by doubleclicking on its name and continue with OK.

Newsgroups Subscriptions

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You will find the list of subscribed newsgroups in the program window. Now you can read and write articles through our server.

Read Articles

To use our server for Usenet by default, please right-click on "News.FU-Berlin.DE" and select Set as default account.

Set as Default

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To optimize the news reader configuration, please again select the news server name with the right mouse button and click Properties.

Set Properties

Select the Advanced register card and choose the maximum value for Server Timeouts. If you prefer both authentication and articles to be transferred over an encrypted connection, check "This server requires a secure connection (SSL)" and set "Port number" to 563; otherwise leave it unchanged at "119". Confirm these changes by clicking on OK.

Properties - Advanced

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As your final step please make sure that the usage of HTML is not activated.

Do this by selecting the command Menus / Options...

Tools / Options...

On the register card Send, make sure Plain Text is selected for News Sending Format.

Options - Send