Support Pages > Email > USENET (News) > Outlook Express News

Summary: How to set up USENET news in Outlook Express.
Select your provider?
Our website now provides help and support to customers of Plusnet, Force9 and Free-Online. Please select your provider using the drop-down menu and you will be provided with the technical support details that are appropriate to you.

Setting up Outlook Express so that you can read USENET news is quick and easy to do. Read our guide to see how to.

 

Setting up USENET in Outlook Express

 

1. Open Outlook Express and click on Tools then Accounts.

TOOLS ACCOUNTS

2. Click on the News tab, then click Add and choose News.

ADD NEWS

3. Enter your name and click on Next.

NAME

4. Enter your email address and click on Next.

EMAIL ADDRESS

5. Type in the name of our news server - news.plus.net. Then click Next, finish and then close.

NEWS SERVER

6. You will then be asked the following question "Would you like to download newsgroups from the news account you added?" Make sure that you are connected to Plusnet, then click Yes

DOWNLOAD FROM ACCOUNT? YES

7. To search for the Plusnet newsgroups, type Plusnet in the search field and all the Plusnet newsgroups will appear. Highlight the groups you wish to subscribe to, then click the Subscribe button and then OK.

SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSGROUPS

8. You will now see the groups to which you subscribed in the left hand column. To view a group, simply double-click it.

SELECT A GROUP TO VIEW

9. To see the latest postings to a group, click on Tools then Accounts, and select Get Next 300 Headers.

GET NEXT 300 HEADERS

Print

Related Articles

Usenet

Set up Usenet in Outlook Express [Video Help]

Netscape Communicator News

Did you find this page helpful?

Yes No Maybe