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This is a short introduction to KNode and its usage so you can start working with it right away.
For more in-depth information see the Working with KNode section.
On the first startup KNode creates a directory called ".knode" containing some inital
files and folders in your home directory
After that KNode will come up with an empty main window, that only contains three folders (Drafts, Outbox, Sent).
Now before you can start using KNode, you must enter some inital information in the preferences-dialog.
To open this dialog you can either select the item "Preferences" from the "Options"-menu or click on the
button on the toolbar.
The preferences-dialog consists of five tabs but only the first two ("user" and "server")
are important at this point. Which information is required and how to enter it is described in the following sections.
Before you can read or post articles you must enter some information about yourself in the "user"-tab of the preferences-dialog. You must fill in the fields "Name" and "Email", the others are optional. You can find more information about them in the Customizing KNode section.
KNode needs to know, where to fetch articles from and send articles to, in other words you have to provide some information
about your newsserver. To do this just select the "server"-tab in the preferences-dialog. If you have installed a
newsserver (eg. leafnode) on your local machine, you can leave the default settings (localhost, 119). In other cases please fill
in the name or ip-adress and the port-number of your newsserver.
If your server requires an authentication, fill in your username and password in the corresponding textfields.
KNode can send replies as an email to the author using smtp. If you want to use this feature, you must enter the name an port-number of your smtp-server in the corresponding fields.
Well, that's it. Now you are able to use KNode for reading and sending internet news :-)Next Previous Table of Contents