Many email clients do this, including some of the best known: Mozilla Mail/Thunderbird,
Evolution, Sylpheed, mutt, and pine. Setting them up to read Usenet is usually just a
matter of identifying the Usenet server (often news.
.com) and including login
information, if authentication is required.
Reading news in a mail client is usually a plain-vanilla experience, without some of the
fancier filters used by a standalone news client, but threads are usually supported (if they
are supported in mail), and responding to a post operates the same way as email.
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Support for binary transfers via Usenet, including images, multimedia files, and programs,
tends to be a mixed bag. The yEnc encoding format is much more widespread in Usenet
(see Chapter 15, ???Managing Email Servers,??? for more on yEnc), and if your email client
doesn??™t support it, you??™ll miss out. As many viruses spread via Usenet binaries, this can be
a good thing.
Standalone GUI Newsreaders
Maybe your email client doesn??™t do news (for example, KMail), or you want something
better adapted to the Usenet atmosphere (good binary transfer, bozo filters, and better
ways to clear spam).
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