How to use News2mail.com
- Read News by e-mail from news2mail.com
- Subscribe a Newsgroup
- Unsubscribe from a Group
- Common Problems
Read News by e-mail from news2mail.com
On www.news2mail.com you can order the newsmessages from about 14000 newsgroups by e-mail. You will receive the messages on your e-mail account.
- Single Messages,
- html-digests and
- zipped html-digests.
Single Messages
In this format the messages look like the original news-posting. Attachments are removed for virus-protection.
The messages can be read with any mail-program. On any operation system. This works nicely for groups with a low volume Please be careful to use this option on high-volume groups, since you may get flooded with messages. Mail-administrators may get angry or you might oversee important personal mails between the news-messages. The average number of Messages for the particular group is mentioned on the order-form, so that you have an idea how many mails will arrive before you subscribe.
Digests
To follow Groups with larger amounts of Messages www.news2mail.com provides daily summaries. Currently in html format - Other formats are planned.
You receive one message per day, that contains all Messages of that group since the last summary. Normally this means the messages of the last 24 hours. For most users the html-digest is the most convenient. You will then see the message in your mail-reader as formatted message.
For users, that are connected by extremely slow lines the zipped version of the digests might be better. This can also help if your mail-system destroys html-mail-messages
Subscribe a Newsgroup
- The subscription of a newsgroup needs to go in the following steps:
- Find your group of interest on www.news2mail.com
- Enter you mail-address into the mail-address field on this field and choose the format, that you want to receive. Be sure to type your address correctly.
- After some time (normally a few minutes) you receive a confirmation-message. You simply have to return this message. This step is needed to verify the mail-address.
- Again some minutes later you receive a welcome-message. And from this point on you will receive messages. For the single-messages option they will arrive in bulks roughly every hour. For the digests they are send out once a day.
Unsubscribe from a Group
- There is a link at the end of each mail, that creates a mail-message that will unsubscribe you. This will only work, if your mailer creates exactly the same mail-address as you entered when you subsribed.
- You can also go to the www.news2mail.com on the group, that you read and unsubscribe there. This works similar to the subscription process. Make sure to type exactly the same mailaddress, that you used for the subsciption.
Common Problems
If you subscribed and you receive nothing the most common reasons are:
- You mistyped the mail-address
- You did not send back the confirmation message
- If you receive the welcome-message but no 'real' messages follow the group has probably no traffic. Check on the group's page on www.news2mail.com for the average number of messages per day.
- It is not possible to send messages via news2mail.com. Read the Description how to Post to learn about posting to the usenet.
Other Problems the occur from time to time:
Some mail-servers consider messages from news2mail as Spam and discard them. You might want to open a mail-account at some free mail-provider.
If you once received Messages and it eventually stops you might have been automatically unsubscribed because your mail-server was unavailable for a longer time or because it rejected messages. This is frequently the case, when your mailbox is full. If this happens simply subscribe again.