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<li>If you want a date header field added to posts</li>
- <li>If Sylpheed should generate a Message-ID</li>
+ <li>If Sylpheed-Claws should generate a Message-ID</li>
<li>If you want to add user-defined headers</li>
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The next items only apply to when you reply to a news message through
<p>The next tab, Compose, allows you to select a default signature
file. This will be added to each post to the newsgroups you do.</p>
<p>Finally, in the "Advanced" tab, you can specify the port on which
-Sylpheed has to connect to the news server. The default is 119, and
+Sylpheed-Claws has to connect to the news server. The default is 119, and
only in rare cases you should have to do something about that.</p>
<p>Now you click "OK" and the account is created! You can verify this
by checking the folder pane in Sylpheed. There you will see a new
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<p>Okay. Here the real stuff begins. First you have to let Sylpheed
load the list of news groups that is on the news system. Right-click
-the new NEWS folder and select "Subscribe to newsgroups". Sylpheed will
+the new NEWS folder and select "Subscribe to newsgroups". Sylpheed-Claws will
tell you that the groups need to be downloaded, so sit back and wait a
while. Of course, during time, new groups are added, and dead groups
are removed. For this you can click the "refresh" button in the
you can look up a group that is interesting, for example
comp.os.linux.networking. Click the name once and then select OK. The
group will be added to the news folder as a subfolder. When you now
-click the name of the new subfolder, Sylpheed will connect to the news
+click the name of the new subfolder, Sylpheed-Claws will connect to the news
server and download the headers (subject lines, in e-mail talk), to
your computer. Some groups have -large- amounts of articles, so this
may take a while!!</p>
<h3>A note about binary files</h3>
<p>In newsgroups you can download binary files. These are programs,
images etc. Often these are posted as so called UUencoded files.
-Sylpheed will as upto version 0.5.1 not decode UUencoded files. You
+Sylpheed-Claws will as upto version 0.5.1 not decode UUencoded files. You
need to save these articles to disk as separate files, and use a
separate decoder program, like juju, to decode the garble of text. A
UUencoded file usually looks something like this:</p>
projects / claws.git / blobdiff