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Other options in the Advanced tab are explained later. When you complete your server settings, hit the OK button then look in the Connections tab to make sure the server successfully connects. If it doesn't, look in the Status tab to see what errors are occuring.
Many ISP's are now limiting your speed for Usenet access. They do this by putting a limit on internet traffic using port 119, which is standard for Usenet. Many news servers, including Astraweb provides Usenet access on alternate ports that are set aside for different protocols like telnet, mail, web, or proxies.
Before changing your port number, first check with your news service provider to determine which alternate ports they support. Astraweb supports ports 23 and 8080 in addition to the standard port 119 for example. If you use Astraweb and don't use SSL we recommend using port 8080 instead of port 119. This will protect the downloaded data from "Real-Time Email Scans" that some virus scanners perform. We've seen that some of these scanners damage the downloaded data.
Check your Connections tab to make sure the server reconnects. If there are problems, check your Status tab for clues as to what is wrong. You may have to configure your firewall to allow access on this port depending on the type of firewall you have.
NewsBin allows you to configure a server to not download headers but still be available to download posts either using headers from other servers or, with NZB files. Turning on "Slave Server" in the Advanced section of the Server Properties puts the server into that mode.
Setting a server as a "Fill Server" under the Advanced properties of the server tells NewsBin to only use this server if no other servers has a specific post (chunk). NewsBin will try every other non-fill server in your server list and, when all else fails, will use a Fill server. This is most effective if you choose a high quality, long retention server to serve as backup if your primary server (like the one from your ISP) is missing some critical posts.
If you want the best in Service and retention to use as a Fill server then we recommend Astraweb as a high quality service to work in addition with your ISP's news service. If you want a basic fill server to act as a backup to a free or ISP news server, then Astraweb is a good candidate as it offers block accounts that do not expire.
To verify SSL is turned on, you will see a "Lock" icon next to the server entry in the Servers tab and in the Connections tab (Version 5.32 and above only). In the Status messages, if you have the logging level (in the advanced options) set to "Debug and if you have "Show Server Commands" enabled under Options/Network, you will see a message like this:
If you enable SSL for your server, newsbin will ONLY connect using SSL. This means that even if you don't see this message or notice the lock, with SSL enabled, an SSL connection will be required for download.
Note that Giganews offers a product that its users can use called the "Giganews Accelerator". Newsbin versions newer than 5.55 have the Accelerator built in so, you no longer need to use the Giganews accelerator. If you've been using the Accelerator, set the Address to "news.giganews.com" and restart Newsbin to use the built in accelerator. The built in Accelerator works with many other major news servers too.
Version 5 does not allow you to open a different configuration file once NewsBin is running. We have implemented many features that should remove the need most people had to maintain different configuration files. If you have a situation that still requires different configurations, there are two ways to open NewsBin with a specific configuration file:
Files downloaded by NewsBin are stored in various folders depending on how the files are downloaded and how your options are configured. Downloading from headers or by NZB files follow different storage options. There are also special options fo handling MP3 music files.
You can queue incomplete posts the same as a normal post. NewsBin will only download the parts that it knows exists on the server(s). If an incomplete post is in the download queue but not downloading yet, any new headers that arrive on the server will be taken into account when it moves to the top of the queue for processing.
Dynamic and Display filters are those that are applied at the top of Post lists after you have done a Show Posts or Show All Posts to load up headers in a Post list. You will find yourself using this type of filter all the time.
You can create new filters or edit existing filters. It is good practise not to edit the default "Global Filter" to any significant amount. The 'global' filter with standard settings can be used in effect as "no filters applied". As the global filter is by default applied to every group you will find it much easier to create custom filters for special cases.
To create anew filter use the "New" button. This will then ask you which filter should be used as a model, and the name of the new filter. Once a filter has been created then highlighting it from the list at the left will display its details and allow them to be edited. If you want to delete a filter then highlight it in the list at the left and press the DEL key.
You can test a filter that you have prepared by using "Show All Posts" on a group that you want to use with the filter; making sure that Enable Filters is ticked at the top of the post list, and then selecting the filter of interest from the Filter Profile drop down.
If you do not want the filter to be permanently associated with a group, then you can simply select it from the drop down list at the top of a Post list. This filter will then be applied to the headers that are currently loaded into that Post list. As soon as you close the Post list Newsbin will revert to using whatever profile is set as the groups Filter Profile.
There is a small amount of display related information stored in the Windows registry under the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DJI Interprises. None of this information is critical to Newsbin running, and backing up/restoring registry entries is deemed an advanced topic that the average user would not want to get involved in attempting to carry out, so it is not covered in any detail here. Advanced users might wish to examine this information and decide if they want to try and include any of it in their Newsbin backup.
One thing that is not copied is the column widths in the various tabs. These are stored in the registry so copying the settings across (although technically possible) is normally not worth the effort - it is easier to reset them as required on the target machine.
CAUTION: The path specified in a download list is not changed by changing the DOWNLOAD folder as described above - the change is only used for queuing new items. To change existing entries you need to explicitly right click entries in the download list and select the Download to Folder option to mke the change.
Some functions that have either been needed for troubleshooting, or have been requested by users have been implemented through configuration file settings. This was done for functions we decided would not be widely used or, were confusing for new users so we did not include them in the user interface.
Newsbin will not normally auto-assemble incomplete items that have very recently been posted to Usenet. This is in case these items are still being uploaded and will shortly complete. You can specify the time that Newsbin is to wait (based on the Posting date/time) before Auto-Assembly will happen. For example, you might have an NZB for a file set. The NZB is complete. You try to download it from your server but, it's not on your server yet. By not auto-assembling immediately, as the files complete on your server, they can be downloaded successfully. If they were assembled immediately, the file set would never complete.
There is an option to suppress launching whatever text editor you have associated with .txt file when you perform a Read Post Body (ctrl-r). Any RPB's automatically show up in the Read Posts tab and by default, your text editor will launch to display the text as well.
Newsbin monitors the free space on the drives set as the DATA and DOWNLOAD paths under Options->Setup. When these get below a predetermined value then Newsbin will put up a dialog indicating that it has run out of space. Many users have indicated that they would like to be able to set a much larger trigger value than that built into Newsbin. This can be done by creating an entry of the form
Newsbin gives you the option to create folder names for files downloaded via NZB files where the folder name is based on the NZB Filename. In many cases the NZB filename has a standardised prefix that it is desireable to remove, and you specifiy this by setting the clean NZB path option under options->NZB Files. Newsbin will by default be set up to handle the prefix for a NZB site, but you may want to change the prefix to be removed if you a different source of NZB files.
Newsbin is set up to automatically purge old headers as part of the header download process when the server says that that they are no longer available. This is precisely the behavior that is normally wanted as it means housekeeping of headers is completely automatic and kept in line with your servers. However there have been cases reported (primarily from users using Newshosting as their news server) where the servers seem to have a blip and incorrectly report the number of headers they have available in a group.
Typically this happens when the news supplier runs a server "farm" of identical servers to handle the load, and one of them gets out of sync with the others and reports a diffent range of headers to be available. This can result in Newsbin believing that many of the headers have been purged from the server so it purges the local copies as well. As a result the majority of headers for a group(s) appearing to suddenly disappear and as the user typically has no control over which server in a server farm is used at any particular time this happens in an unpredicatble manner.
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