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Once you have set up your accounts, you activate Hogwasher by clicking on the Connect button (the green arrow icon). The Connect window lets you select which news accounts you wish to access and whether you wish to receive or send mail. Press the Connect button after making your selections.
Connect Window with Options for News and Mail Accounts
After connecting to a news server, the News window will display information on your subscribed groups.
News Window with Header Information and Connection Options
By clicking in the “x” column, you can choose which newgroups you will access. An “x” means that you will not connect. When you have connected and downloaded article headers, a newsgroup messages window appears. You can sort the messages by clicking on a column header (Author, Subject, Date, Lines, etc.). The triangle button to the right indicates the direction of the sort (ascending or descending). You can apply custom filters to newgroups to avoid displaying messages that do not meet your criteria. The use of filters is not intuitive, and you will need to read the information in the manual thoroughly to make use of them.
Newsgroup Headers with Exploded Threads
You can select articles by clicking or clicking and dragging. Toolbar buttons act on selected articles. The download button (the pink and white x) is most important. It marks articles for downloading. The Images button to the right will display reduced size previews of any image files in the selected articles. Hogwasher can display numerous image formats, including JPEG. It automatically assembles multipart images (including yEnc files) and movies. After you have downloaded newgroup articles, you read them in the Article window.
Newsgroup Article Window with Attachment List
This window has navigation buttons in the upper left (for moving through the downloaded articles) and action buttons to the right. These buttons are Archive (the folder icon), Followup (for setting up follow up actions), Reply, Forward (for forwarding an article to a newgroup or e-mail recipient), and Delete. Depending on your Preferences settings, you may also see a Thread tree window. You can toggle this window by typing Command-T or by selecting Show/Hide Thread Tree in the Article menu. Symbols to the left of article names indicate status such as awaiting download (pink square with white x), downloaded but not read (the symbol looks like two tiny overlapping documents), and read (a green checkmark to the left of the downloaded symbol).
Thread Tree Window
If the article includes attachments, you can view them by clicking the blue triangle button to the left of the attachment name. This displays a list of attachments and three new buttons: Save (to a folder designated in your Preferences settings), Save As, and Delete. You can select one or more attachments before clicking any of those buttons. If an attachment is an image file, double-clicking its name pops up the Image Viewer. The Image View window is resizable, and the image magnification varies with window size. Navigation buttons in the upper left let you move among downloaded images. Note: You will skip over articles with images that you did not download. The buttons to the right are Archive (folder icon), Save, Save As, and Delete.
Image Viewer Window
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