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After expanding the “.bin” downloaded file, you can place the Hogwasher folder wherever you wish.
Hogwasher Installed Files
The first time you launch Hogwasher, a Setup Assistant window appears.
Setup Assistant walks you through the setting up of news and e-mail accounts. By default, Hogwasher uses your Internet Config settings. You can change that by deselecting the appropriate checkboxes. To complete the setup you will need to know the names of your news and e-mail servers and any related passwords.
Setting up Your News Account
To access newgroups, you first need to acquire a listing of them. You do this by selecting “Retrieve Group List” from the News menu.
Hogwasher News Menu
This will take a few minutes. The next task is to “subscribe” to newgroups of interest. The easiest way to do this is to go to the Window menu and select both News (Command-Shift-N) and Group List (Command-Shift-G).
Empty News Window and Group List Window
You then select newgroups from the Group List window and drag them into the News window or click on the Subscribe button in the upper left corner of the Group List. Hogwasher lets you filter the long Group List by using the “Show:” pop-up menu and entering text into the adjacent box. To select groups related to Macintosh computers, you could choose “contains” from the pop-up menu and type “mac” into the text box. A useful feature is the ability to remove unwanted newgroups from the Group List window. You can select those groups and click on the Delete button (the trash can icon) to remove them.
pop-up menu for Filtering Newsgroup List
If you access numerous related newsgroups, you can create a Subscription that includes as many newgroups as you wish. You do this by selecting New Subscription from the News menu and using the Add button (the plus icon) to add groups. You can use the same group list filter tools to narrow the choices. You can select multiple groups by Command-clicking individual newgroup names.
Subscription Window for Accessing Multiple Newsgroups Simultaneously
To set up an e-mail account, open the Mail window, then select “New Mailbox” from the News menu.
Mail Accounts Window
Create a name for your mailbox and add a filter, if desired. You can create as many mailboxes as you need.
Window for Setting Up a Mailbox Account
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