Recent changes to bugs

No Headers

Jeffrey Miller — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:20:06 -0000

I installed Oxynews and was able to get the full list of newsgroups and subscribe to what I wanted. Then, I can't pull up any headers at all.

OSXnews 2.081 will not retrieve headers

Don Bowey — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:10:13 -0000

OSXnews 2.081 will not retrieve newsgroup headers. The gear spins a while, then stops. I am able to post messages from OSXnews and read them using Entourage. The sent messages do show up in the OSXnews Sent list.

I'm using 10.5.4.

Any help available?

2.081 doesn't get any newsgroup entries

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:30:02 -0000

Thank you for taking the time to create OSXnews. I have just installed it and found it quite easy to set-up.

I configured my Earthlink news server (news.west.earthlink.net) and downloaded the list of newsgroups. Once the list had downloaded, I selected many groups for subscription. Also, very easy. Once I completed my selections, I went back to the main window, selected a group from the list and clicked refresh - then nothing. The wheel spun, but no headers appeared.

I tried this with a group that I read through Google to be certain that there were messages, so I know that there should have been headers to download.

I am on a PowerBook G4 running 10.4.11.

busybutwantmore@SPAM.hotpop.com

Won't display .jpgs

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:30:56 -0000

When opening a message containing a non-yEnc .jpg, it displays the images as text.

Example:

begin 644 !!DSC08826.jpg
M_]C_X``02D9)1@`!`0```0`!``#_VP!#``@%!@<&!0@'!@< src=file:////Applications/OSXnews.app/Contents/Resources/kopete013.png "`@)#!,,#`L+>>"`@)#!,,#`L+
M#!@1$@X3'!@='1L8&QH?(RPE'R$J(1H src=file:////Applications/OSXnews.app/Contents/Resources/kopete013.png >C0G*BXO,3(Q'B4V.C8P.BPP,3#_
MVP!#`0@)"0P*#!<,#!< src=file:////Applications/OSXnews.app/Contents/Resources/kopete006.png (!L@,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P>>(!L@,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P
M,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,##_P``1"`(5`R`#`2(``A$!`Q$!_\0`

This goes on until it gets to "end."

Some yEnc images will display as the WebKit symbol for missing image, others just keep the "Decoding" window open until I select a new message.

MacOS 10.4.10
MacBook 2.0GHz Core Duo, 2GB RAM
Firefox is the default browser

Application can't Quit

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:28:33 -0000

the "Quit OSXNews" from the Applications Menu doesn't seem to work

I use OS X 10.4.8 + all security updates on a PöwerMac G4

I have to cmd-opt-esc to force quit OSXNews

This needs urgent fixing

Thanx

Newsgroups stay empty

William — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:14:03 -0000

I've noticed some strange behaviour after a fresh
install on 10.4.8. (last version os osxnews):

* some groups stay empty (and the are not with other
viewers)
* if a group gets new mail, i see those messages in the
group where i was when the mail was received (clicking
again on the group that i was reading corrects this).
* sometimes all newsgroups just dissapear (for seconds)
* getting a lot of -- instead of numbers on the group names
* The numbers in the statusbar overlap with each other.

See screenshot

Can't post through SSH

XL64 — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:22:55 -0000

I access to a newsgroup via SSH
I can read correctly the news but when i try to write
news, it goes to outbox and it doesn't appear on
Newsgroups whereas it does with MT-NewsWatcher...
But your interface is so nice...

Text handling

Matt Wills — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:07:02 -0000

I will reiterate my previous post about text handling,
and how OSXnews does not honor returns properly.
Sometimes it puts in a return, sometimes it doesn't.
Double returns doesn't help: sometimes it doesn't put
in either one.

The post as written looks OK, but something happens
when it is sent: looking at my own messages to a group,
they're a mess.

I like the way incoming messages are displayed, and the
fact that I can delete what I don't need, keeping
others for future reference without locking or flagging
or any special other action.

But this text thing makes OSXnews completely inadequate
for posting anything.

Irritating window behavior

Matt Wills — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:01:19 -0000

When writing a post (new or reply), go to another app
to look at something, then click on your message
window. The main display window will open in front of
the message window you clicked on. That should not happen.

Space between From-Name and From-adress is missing

Anonymous — Tue, 16 May 2006 15:03:28 -0000

When you setup OSXnews with name and email adress in
the From and have sent a posting, then the space
between both is missing, just like name<email@adress.com>