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Changes to the NNTP server over the next few days.

Hello all, over the next few days, we will be upgrading the NNTP gateway to CorelDRAW.com to a new version. This means that the NNTP access to the forums might be unavailable from time to time. If you don't know what NNTP is or don't use it, you shouldn't experience any problem with CorelDRAW...

Posted to CorelDRAW.com announcements (Weblog) by Gerard Metrailler on 10-17-2007
NNTP access rolled over and died again?

I'm back to getting "connection refused" when I try to login on NNTP. Anybody else?

Posted to Community site problems and feedback (Forum) by Paul McGee on 08-20-2007
Please read if you use a newsgroup client

Over the week-end, there has been some changes to the forum structure. For those who use the web interface to access the forums, you should not even notice the changes. For those who use an NNTP client (Outlook Express, Thunderbird, ...), the changes will impact you a little more. Please make sure to...

Posted to Community site general questions (Forum) by Gerard Metrailler on 06-03-2007
Re: NNTP & Mozilla Thunderbird

Hello, We're still making some tweaks to the NNTP access for CorelDRAW.com based on the feedback from everyone. I think most of the problems have been solved now and I know other members use Thunderbird as their NNTP client. Make sure to use "username@coreldraw" to log-in. Also make sure...

Posted to Community site problems and feedback (Forum) by CorelDRAW.com administrator on 05-25-2007
NNTP client: extended characters with Outlook Express

Hello all, some of you have been reporting issues using Outlook Express when there are non-English characters in the messages. This also affect other newsgroup clients. It took a while to nail this one down. but here is the solution: Make sure to enable Unicode (UTF-8) support in your NNTP software for...

Posted to Community site problems and feedback (Forum) by Gerard Metrailler on 05-24-2007
Re: Highlight (boldface) unread posts

Ted, thank you very much for this detailed explanation. I fully agree with you, that would be a very nice feature to have, but this might be beyond what can be done in the short future. Let me explain a little the problem from what I can tell. With an newsgroup client such as OE or Thunderbird, all the...

Posted to Community site general questions (Forum) by Gerard Metrailler on 05-24-2007
Re: Highlight (boldface) unread posts

To clarify, your question is related to using Outlook Express... e.g. you would like the threads with unread replies to be in boldface in Outlook Express? This might be an option to select in that NNTP client. I am still looking at a few thing related to NNTP access and hope to get these sorted shortly...

Posted to Community site general questions (Forum) by Gerard Metrailler on 05-23-2007
Problems with NNTP access through Outlook Express

We are currently investigating an issue when using Outlook Express as the newsgroup client to post in these forums. Using Thunderbird or other NNTP clients are reported to work fine, but Outlook Express shows an error message when posting. If you ignore the error message, you will be able to post messages...

Posted to Community site problems and feedback (Forum) by CorelDRAW.com administrator on 05-20-2007
NNTP access to the forums

Hello all, for those who prefer to use a newsgroup reader to access forums instead of a web interface, we've configured it... simply configure your favorite NNTP client (such as Outlook Express on Windows XP or Windows Mail on Vista) and add a newsgroup account. The server name is coreldraw.com and...

Posted to Community site general questions (Forum) by Gerard Metrailler on 05-14-2007

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