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MT-NewsWatcher - 3.5.2

Usenet newsgroup client

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All Time:	(4.2)
Version 3.5.2:	(4.0)
Selected Version:	3.5.2
Release Date:	2006-08-27
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 3.5.2):	20,278
Downloads (all versions):	3,665

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Product Description:

MT-NewsWatcher is a Usenet news client for the Macintosh. Usenet is a globally distributed news network over which many thousands of people distribute messages every day, and which contains discussion groups on virtually every topic under the sun. MT-NewsWatcher allows you to quickly and efficiently target the articles you wish to read, with sophisticated yet easy to use filtering, searching and sorting features. The program also makes viewing and saving binaries from newsgroups easy, and works transparently across multiple news servers. MT-NewsWatcher is derived from an earlier program called simply "NewsWatcher", by John Norstad of Northwestern University, but greatly enhances that program's feature set.

What's new in this version:

MT-NW 3.5.2 includes these new features:

Secure News

Added support for news over SSL (snews), configurable via the server settings in the News Servers dialog.

Secure Mail

Added support for SMTP authentication, and SMTP over TLS and SSL, configurable via the Mail Server tab in the Personalities dialog.

Passwords Stored in Keychain

MT-NW can now store news and mail passwords in your Keychain, and not in its preferences file.

Search Integration

The context menus in article and message windows now have items to search in Google, look up a word in Dictionary, and search using Spotlight (on Tiger). Spelling-related items are now also available in message window context menus.

More reliable binary extraction

This version contains fixes for several bugs relating to binary extraction. Extraced binaries will no longer produced corrupted files, and the process will use less memory.

Bug fixes and other changes

Added the ability to create filters via AppleScript.
Removed the ability to base a personality on an Internet Config profile, since IC is deprecated in the OS.
The "User agent" header no longer contains "Intel" on PowerPC machines.
Build PPC with gcc 3.3 so that it's compatible with pre-10.3.9 systems.
Fixed the "Print" menu item.
Authentication via GSS (Kerberos) now works again.
Fixed SOCKS connection error on Intel.
Fixed a bug that caused extracted binaries to be corrupted sometimes.
Fixed a bug that caused files created by cancelled binary extraction tasks to not be deletable.
Improved error reporting when extracting binaries.
You can now Copy from the binary extraction Log window
Fixed memory leaks when extracting binaries.
Now use long filenames when dragging msgs from subject window to Finder.
JPEG images now display millions of colors, which fixes color banding issues.
Fixed some issues enabling menu items on the "Shared Newsrc" submenu.
Fixed a bug that caused some window positions to be restored incorrectly on Intel (this was most apparent with the Log window, and I believe was responsible for a nasty hang when extracting binaries on Intel machines).
Fixed an issue that caused MT-NW to complain that some URL helpers (like Fetch) are too old to use.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher
Universal Binary

Feedback Summary:

Version 3.5.2:
Overall Rating:	(4.0)	Features:	(4.0)	Support:	(3.5)
Ease of Use:	(4.0)	Quality / Stability:	(3.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Problems with SL - Version: 3.5.3b3, 10/4/2009 06:20AM PST

ken-jacobs

I am geeting the following message on my console when I run this program:

10/4/09 9:11:05 AM MT-NewsWatcher[34339] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x601200 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking

Great, but... - Version: 3.5.3b3, 4/30/2009 10:31AM PST

phKU

Great newsreader with many nice features and ease of use, but because of following limitations and very slow development (despite I donated :), I'm seriously thinking moving to another app:

News window limited to 100,000 articles, no convenient way to fetch the remaining articles (100,000+). Very annoying since my news provider keep in some groups more than 1,000,000 articles.
Binaries decoding fails quiet often while inline browsing and saving, in particular with some multi part messages.
Articles can't be marked for later download.
no .nzb support.

One more feature request: binaries download should be recorded in a log which entries could be selectable to be saved in a .nzb file. Reason: when you download from many groups together while checking the resulting files an other day, it's very annoying not knowing from which group/date they where downloaded.

Adding these little enhancements, this would be definitely the best mac newsreader for me :)

excellent newsreader - Version: 3.5.2, 9/6/2008 05:44AM PST

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Foobar1969

fabulous usenet client, can't beat the price.