Re: Newsgroups messages in Outlook Express

[cssriraman]

Thanks Al42. Is Agent can store news messages more than two months?

[Al42]

Thanks Al42. Is Agent can store news messages more than two months?

Agent can store them as long as your hard drive lasts. There are settings for which ones to delete and how to determine when to delete them. (With bodies, without bodies, read or unread - never, X number of days, etc.)

Don't confuse server retension with client storage, though. If you see a header dated 3 months ago and try to download the body, chances are you won't be able to - because the server doesn't retain the posts that long. Your client - OE, Agent, whatever you use - can download headers without downloading bodies. (It's much faster to download all the headers, then just download the bodies you want to read.) You still see the headers listed years later, but the bodies are no longer on the server for download.

But if you download the body and don't delete it, you'll be able to read it as long as you want into the future - years, decades, whatever you want.

This is on all decent usenet clients, not just Agent.