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Figure 7-8. Newsgroup Account Setup
Enter your name and email address on the next screen and click Next. On the following screen, enter
the name of your news server (if you do not know the name of your news server, contact your Internet
service provider for this information). On the last few screens, you can determine the name that this
account will be referred to and review your settings.
Now the newsgroup account you just created will appear in the sidebar of the Mozilla mail screen.
Right-click on this account name and select Subscribe. A dialog box appears, listing all the news-
groups available. Select the ones you want and click on Subscribe. When you are done, click on
OK.
Now, click on the arrow next to the newsgroup account name and the list of groups you are subscribed
to will appear beneath. Select the newsgroup you want to access and a dialog box appears with infor-
mation about downloading and reading existing messages. Posting to a newsgroup is just like writing
an email, except that the newsgroup name appears in the To field rather than an email address. To
unsubscribe from a newsgroup, right-click on the group name and select Unsubscribe.
7.4. Plain Text Email Clients
Most modern email clients allow the user to select whether they want to send their emails in plain
text or in HTML. The advantage of HTML formatted email is that they are are graphical (GUI). The
particular font can be specified, the layout is very controllable, textures, pictures and backgrounds can
be added; all this makes for a visually appealing message when it gets to the recipient.
On the other hand, plain text email is just that — plain text. They are not fancy, there are no pictures
embedded in the email, there are no special fonts. Plain text emails are simple.
The term plain text refers to textual data in ASCII format. Plain text (also called clear text) is the most
portable format because it is supported by nearly every application on every machine.
This chapter will discuss two plain text email clients, PINE and mutt.
7.4.1. Using Pine
Pine (acronym for pine is not elm or Program for Internet News and Email)is a character-based
email client for UNIX systems.