Check "Append the Agent folder name as a subfolder" and Agent will automatically create a separate attachment folder for each newsgroup. You can refine this behavior with Folder Property Schemes.
Agent Folder Properties also provide you with granular control over when attachments are saved. For binary newsgroup, you might choose to automatically save attachments based on the file type. Even though your data is upgraded your existing data will not be MegaJoined. That will happen for all headers downloaded after you install and run Agent 8.
To MegaJoin your older data you will need to sample the data back to a desired date or get all headers again. In either case you should first delete your existing headers, as Agent will MegaJoin the headers as the download proceeds but leave existing headers untouched, resulting in a lot of duplicate messages.
You may find it useful to have multiple copies of Agent installed on your computer. For example, you may want to segregate your personal email and Usenet messages from your work messages.
Or you might have one copy for text data and another for binary data. It's up to you. The second component consists of agent. To set up multiple copies of Agent, you don't need to install multiple copies of agent. In fact, Forte recommends that you not install multiple copies of the program. Instead, all you need to do is create new folders to store copies of your Agent data. Setting up a new copy of Agent is easy.
First, you create a folder in which to store Agent's data and then you create a new shortcut to launch Agent using that folder. Follow these steps:. Note: You do not have to do anything special to allow multiple users with different logins to run separate copies of Agent.
Agent automatically creates a separate data folder for each user the first time they run the program. But since this folder cannot be used Agent freezes when trying to open. Here's how to fix this:. It is probably set to a value of '1'. This will cause Agent to start with the first message in the first group or folder in your list and not where you last left the program.
Save the change. Note: When you edit and then save this file make sure word wrapping is turned off. Start Agent and highlight each folder, working down the list until Agent crashes or freezes. Note the folder. Restart Agent and select the folder immediately above the problem folder, hold the Shift key down and select the folder immediately below the problem folder, thereby selecting the problem folder in the middle.
Then select File Repair Selected Folders Your agent. Agent uses two directories when running: The program directory, where agent. The data directory, where all Agent folder, filter, contact and configuration data resides. The easiest way to find the data directory is to right-click any folder in Agent. Select Folder Properties from the menu, then in the dialog that appears select Name and Scheme.
At the bottom of the panel you'll see the name of the files that hold data for this folder. In particular you'll see the full path name of the directory that contains the files. This is the data directory. If the above doesn't help you find your data directory, here are some guidelines. For versions prior to Agent 4. As of version 4. By default, these are hidden folders in Windows, so you may not be able to see them.
To get Windows to show them, go to your system Control Panel and open up Folder Options , click the View tab, and then enable the Show hidden files and folders setting. Also uncheck the box Hide extensions for known file types. Check the contents of the directory. If it has the file agent. It is not necessary to back up this directory as it will be recreated whenever you install Agent. You definitely want to back up this directory periodically.
If your computer fails and your Agent data is lost you can use this backup copy of the directory and resume using Agent where you left off. We strongly recommend that you back up your data before installing and running Agent 7. Note: If the above doesn't help you find your data directory, here are some guidelines. There may be times when you want to completely remove Agent from your computer. For example you may want to do a clean, fresh installation of the latest version of Agent without carrying along your older data.
Here's what to do. That should do it. However sometimes users can have more than one data directory one active, one old. Search Windows for the file agent. If you find it then you may also want to remove the directory or at the very least all Agent-related files. If you start downloading all headers for one of these groups you will eventually get a "Database is full" message and then not be able to use the group.
Most likely you are using a version of Agent earlier than 7. Some groups now have so many headers that older versions of Agent cannot process numbers that large. Agent 7. And of course version 8 handles these large groups correctly.
Agent then will use Windows to launch the file directly, as if you were launching the file from Windows Explorer. If you get the wrong application or an error when you double-click the file in Windows Explorer, click the Start menu and enter "Default Programs". This opens the Windows application allowing you to set default programs for specific file types.
Click the Add button and add the type and subtype of the problem file type. Select the new item and enter the file extension s used for that kind of file, in a comma separated list. Do not enter an application. When you click Apply, it should show an application icon for the handler in the space under the Application line. Starting with Agent version 7. Note, however, that the maximum number of messages per folder is still 16 million and the maximum size of a single message is still 4 gigabytes.
Because of various performance and RAM limitations, we recommend that you keep the number of messages in a folder below 1 million. Of course, with the new DAT file design, Agent 7. If you wish to maintain backward compatibility with Agent 7. INI parameters, using Notepad or other text editor. You should edit the parameters before allowing any folder to grow larger than 8 gigabytes. You can change the parameters at any time, but once a folder has been updated to the new format, it will stay that way until you empty it of all messages.
Set this option to 0 to force Agent to create files with only byte blocks. The default value is 1. As explained above, a folder can have either byte or byte blocks. Agent establishes a folder's block size at the moment when the first message or header is added to an empty folder.
Once a folder's block size has been set, it never changes as long as it contains any messages. This is true even when you compact a folder.
You can forward messages with attachments by using the Forward As Attachment command in the Action Forward Special menu. This will take the entire message, including any existing attachments, and send it as an attachment to a new outbound message. You can also save the attachments, then use the regular Forward command, re-attaching the files to the new outbound message.
When this value is non-zero, if a MIME section has a filename, Agent will display the yellow icon for the message and will save the section when you select the File Save All Attachments menu item. Alternatively, you can use the File Insert Text File command to insert the file into the message body at the current cursor location. This error means that the path you have defined for saving or launching attachments does not exist.
Default Properties affects email and all newsgroups. Properties overrides the defaults for the selected newsgroup s. Occasionally, you may find multi-part attachments whose subject lines don't match the standard conventions.
In this case, Agent won't be able to find all of the articles for the file or won't be able to get them in the correct order. This may announce itself with a dialog box saying that Agent couldn't find all of the articles, or with an error during the decoding process.
If you are using Windows XP and you have multiple computer logon profiles, make sure that Agent is not open in another user profile. Otherwise, with Agent closed, open your database directory in Windows Explorer and verify that you have the grpdat.
Assuming you do, delete groups. These are backup files for the master groups listing. If you attempt to get groups while your Groups list is corrupted, the backup files will inherit the corruption. In some rare cases, this could be caused by a problem with the agent. As such, it is recommended that you backup this file occasionally. You can do this manually by making a copy of the file periodically. Or, you can automate the process using a batch file. Or, you could rely on the system restore function of your Operating System.
If you use this method, check to insure the drive agent is installed to has system restore enabled. You can place the folder's unread count to the left of the folder name if you prefer this display via Tools Options Display Folders Pane. Yes, you can rename any message folder, be it used for email or a newsgroup. To rename a folder, select it in the Folder pane and right-click and select Rename Folder If you always want to get the bodies automatically for a particular group, select the group and use the Group Properties option to open the Group Properties dialog.
On the Retrieving page, check "Override default settings" and then check "Retrieve bodies for all new messages. In Tools Options Message List Pane you will find the settings to control the automatic exanding of threads. Expand thread if necessary to highlight current body pane message will cause Agent to always expand the current thread in the Message List pane to show the current message.
Initial thread setting controls when Agent will automatically or not expand threads in the Message List pane. When skipping to unread followups controls when and how Agent will expand collapsed threads when skipping to an unread message within the thread. Subthread filtering in Agent is intended to enable you to Ignore subthreads while leaving the rest of the thread unaffected. Example: You are interested in a topic, but one branch, or subthread, has wandered off into something you're not interested in or was invaded by a "troll", so you have no interest in reading responses within that part of the main thread.
Press the i key to Ignore that message and Agent will also Ignore all responses to that message. NOTE: that is i and not I. Lower case ignores the current message and its responses, while uppercase will ignore the entire thread from the beginning.
This can be inconsistent with the Scroll Lock on your keyboard because each pane in Agent maintains its own Scroll Lock status. To then turn off the LED on your keyboard, click on the desktop and hit the key again.
The triangle shows you what column you're sorting on, and whether it's an ascending or descending sort. If the triangle is pointing up, the sort is ascending and if the triangle is pointing down, the sort is descending. These are explained here. For each group Agent remembers the article number of the last message it has retrieved from the news server. When you "Get New Headers", Agent gets all higher-numbered messages.
The Action Get Headers Catch Up With Newsgroups command queries the server to find out what articles are available and notes their numbers, but does not actually retrieve any headers.
The next time you get headers, you'll only get messages posted since you did the catch up. It doesn't affect which messages Agent will retrieve the next time you contact the server. Another way to "catch up" is to open the Default Group Properties dialog and temporarily change the "Limit number of headers per session" value. That way, you can catch up by retrieving, say, no more than 50 of the most recent messages per group.
There are two ways of grouping related messages, Threaded and Unthreaded. When threaded, messages that are responses to another message are grouped so that a response is directly under the original message. The thread can be collapsed to preserve display space. When not threaded, messages are sorted and displayed individually without regard to any response hierarchy.
You can sort on different criteria and choose whether messages will be displayed in threaded order or not. An ascending sort is one that sorts from lowest to highest, such as 1 to 9 or A to Z. Unless you're already familiar with this in other computer applications, it may be confusing because when your sort is ascending, the lower value is actually at the top of the display.
This is because you navigate down the list, so the higher values are towards the bottom of the display. On the File Save Messages As If you think you're going to be re-importing the message into Agent or another reader, select All Fields for maximum compatibility. By default, Agent automatically skips to the next unread message when you mark a message for retrieval or ignore a thread.
If you do not like this behavior, you can disable it by selecting Tools Options Navigation And Menus Navigation and clearing the checkmark on the Marking or ignoring a message skips to the next unread message. Most likely the fields have been pushed to the right all the way. To get them back, put the mouse cursor on the header bar, where it says "Subject" and move it over to the right till it's almost near the edge. Now, when it gets to the edge, before it changes into the "re-size window" cursor, it becomes a vertical bar with horizontal arrows.
When it becomes the vertical bar with arrows, click hold and drag the cursor to the left. The author and date fields will be returned. Additionally, you can automatically resize the header bar to make the date section appear. To set auto-resize, choose Options Display Message List Pane anc checking the box "Automatically adjust column widths when resizing window".
If you are a heavy binary downloader, and you have Agent set to save attachments in the default location, Agent may eventually start to take longer and longer to load. Property Schemes override the default properties. In ascending order of priority, you can add custom headers to a Persona , to the folder Default Properties, to the folder Properties, and to each individual message at the time of composition.
Note that there are some headers that you cannot control this way. For example, you cannot create custom message-ids nor can you control the timestamp.
Yes, Agent can cause Windows to dial and connect to your dial-up service provider. If you do not want Agent to do this, or if you are on an always-on ie, broadband or LAN connection, then you do not want to set anything in that settings panel. The Folder Default Properties Menu is the universal configuration for email folders and all newsgroups. These settings will apply to all newsgroups which have not been specifically overridden. The Folder Properties menu configuration specifically overrides the default properties in those newsgroups which are highlighted when choosing this menu option.
This allows you to define specific properties and behavior for these newsgroups. For example, you can create different email addresses for use in different newsgroups, but still have your personal address configured for your personal correspondence.
Agent all recent versions is fully compatible with all versions of Windows 7 and 8 including the 64bit version. The Help buttons will bring you to context sensitive help, if needed.
The pane header bars or tabs, if you use Agent in zoomed mode are now sized dynamically to fit the font used. You can change the font via Tools Options Display Fonts. Agent 3. You can, however, use a local proxy application like Stunnel to access these. We cannot help you with the installation and basic configuration of Stunnel, since we are in no way associated with the product. But we can tell you this: To use Agent with it, you will need to configure that instance of Agent to connect to the host ' localhost ' or IP Both of these represent your own machine.
Agent is not connecting to the remote server, it's connecting to Stunnel. Stunnel then connects to the remote server for Agent. If you want to connect to more than one secure server, in each instance of Agent that you use stunnel for, change the appropriate port number in agent. The first and preferred way is via the Start In parameter of the shortcut you use to start Agent.
Right-click on the shortcut and select Properties. In the Start In field, enter the path to the directory that contains the agent. This is how you would set up Agent for multiple servers. The second way is by using a command line parameter, also in the shortuct. For this method, make sure the Start In field is blank, and add the path to your agent. This is handy if you use the same database from multiple locations, like on a laptop with two or more connection types, depending on where you are physically, and it would allow you to specify different connection setups.
Updated Where can I find an explanation of the settings? A complete breakdown of the agent. INI file when it appears in the index list. Are you running a firewall or proxy server? If so, then check its setup. The number one cause for this problem when installing or upgrading any network application is that your firewall is blocking the application because it hasn't been told that this is a legitimate install or upgrade. How to reconfigure your firewall is dependent on the firewall.
However, we cannot provide specific details on how to do this. If you need help configuring your firewall, you'll have to ask its publisher. If you have multiple user profiles configured on your Windows XP machine, make sure that Agent is not running in another profile. If it was left running when you switched users, this problem will occur. To fix this, simply shut down Agent, switch back to the other user's account and shut down Agent from there.
When you switch back to the profile you want to use, you'll be able to open Agent with all of your data. Agent can "smart resize" the columns if you change the width of the Message List pane. This is controlled by the "Automatically adjust column widths Please click the Help button for information about this preferences panel.
Even if you only have one server listed, you should know this. The Retrieving Headers tab is the primary tab, the other two tabs are based off of the settings here. From here, you can set which servers are enabled, their relative priorities to each other by moving them up or down the list, whether to use only the first enabled server or all enabled servers in order.
If you specifically want to feed folders in Agent from more than one server "virtual servers" , then you will want to select the option to retrieve from all enabled servers. The Retrieving Bodies tab allows you to a override the priorities, if, for example, you wanted to get headers from one specific server and b control whether or not Agent will try all servers in the list or only those that Agent knows carries the newsgroup in question. Like in the previous tab, you can control which servers are enabled and their priority order.
The Posting Messages tab allows you to control which server Agent will use to post messages through. If more than one server is checked, Agent will use the first enabled server in the list that carries the newsgroup.
And agian, you can control which servers are enabled and their priority order. The two options at the bottom of the panel affect all three tabs the same way, and are therefore in the tabs, but below them.
And because this is a set of folder properties, you can override the Default Properties on a per-folder basis, giving you as much control over just how and from where Agent downloads newsgroup messages as you want. Question marks instead of regular characters in messages means that your settings for the selected language does not include the character set being used in the message you're reading.
What is happening is that the character does not exist in the character set you are using, which means that Agent cannot display it. So to show that something is there, Agent displays a question mark. To change your language settings to include a larger selection of character sets, go to Tools Options Languages.
Select the language in the list at the top, and make your changes in the options below. If you lost your Agent setup, then someone or something is removing files from your Agent database. Failing that, are you using any kind of data removal program, such as Window Washer or Privacy Guardian? As explained in the section on the data directory , Agent expects to find its setting and data files in the data directory. If it can't find them, it assumes it is being run for the first time and displays the registration screen.
You normally specify this directory in the Start In field of the shortcut that starts Agent, or through Agent's command-line argument. If you don't specify this directory, or if you run Agent through some third-party shell that doesn't properly set the working directory, it may run in a different directory than it did the last time you ran it.
If there are no data files in that directory, you'll get the registration screen again. You'll also get a set of files created in that directory, as explained in the next section. See the topic on data directory for specific instructions on how to set this. Pressing the two keys at the same time will bring you to the To field. When you reply to an HTML message, Agent uses the plain text version of the message, if there is one. In Agent 3. The signature is automatically attached to all documents that you post or mail using Agent.
Note that the signature will not be added to the Composition Pane contents. Rather, Agent appends the signature when the message is actually sent. If you would like to set up different signatures for each group, in Agent 3.
You can then choose the signature to use when posting from that group. You can also override the default signature on an individual message by pressing the "All Fields" button and changing the signature field. Just follow the steps in the wizard. If you have any questions about any of the options, click the Help button on the wizard to see the documentation for that specific panel. For outgoing messages, there are two parameters that control wordwrap: the Message Word Wrap menu option, and the Line Length option on the Options Posting Messages panel.
When a message is transmitted, only the Line Length parameter is used. All lines are wrapped at Line Length characters remember, posted messages are inherently "fixed-pitch" , with one exception: Lines that begin with one of the configured quote characters are not wrapped, based on the assumption that the original text was formatted correctly or, at least the way the author wanted to begin with. The display in the editing window itself is also affected by the Word Wrap option.
Lines will still wrap at the Line Length setting unless they're quoted , but if Word Wrap is set then all lines also wrap as necessary to make them fit in the window. If you don't set Word Wrap , then lines may be wider than the window and you'll have to scroll horizontally to see parts of them. If you want to see exactly what the message will look like when it's posted, select a fixed-pitch font, make sure your window is wide enough to display Line Length characters, and turn off Word Wrap.
OTOH, if you have a very narrow window and just want to see the text without worrying about the final format, turn Word Wrap on, select the font of your choice, and type away. Press the INSert key; it's a toggle, the current state of which is shown by the presence or absence of the letters OVR on the status bar.
Do you have multiple email addresses and you want the software know which one to use as your return address? Define a Persona for each and assign the Persona to one or more folders. In a Persona, you can define many message attributes. You can, naturally, define your own name and email address to be used as your identity, but you can also define here default signatures to be used for new messages and replies, whether the Persona can be used for email, Usenet, email responses to Usenet posts, or any combination of the three.
Once you've set up your signature you may be surprised when it still doesn't appear in the edit window or in the messages in the Outbox. Don't worry - Agent appends the signature at the time that it sends the message, although it never appends it to the part that you see. If you want to verify that Agent is going to append the correct signature to your post, press the All Fields button. The name of the signature that Agent is going to use will appear in the Signature field. If you want to use something other than the default signature, you can change it here.
All other Desks merely hold shortcuts to the folders. As such, you can copy your message folders to any number of Desks as you want. Yes, you can import address book info from other email clients. Agent supports importing addressbook info in either csv or xml format. Also, if the xml you wish to import is named " aabimport. The csv format is less structured. Just make sure that the first line contains the field names, and Agent will be able to import it.
If your mail client does not have an option to export to a csv file, you can use Dawn to extract it. Dawn supports most email address books and can convert them to CSV. You can also set this up for individual groups or several groups at a time by highlighting the group s and selecting Folder Properties Posting Message Filing panel.
Check the 'override defaults' box and modify the settings as you desire. In the "Email Unread Marks" box, enable the option to override the default, then enable the option to "Mark messages read when routed to this folder". This will mark all messages automatically filed or routed to that folder as read. Now, to have Agent not alert you to new spam being received, go to Tools Options Inbound Email Checking For Email and enable the item "Only if new messages were marked unread".
When you define a Field Text value for an address book entry, Agent uses that value in your messages' To: field in place of the entry's real list of addresses. So, instead of seeing their own addresses in the message, your recipients see the Field Text instead. This feature is useful for sending messages to mailing lists, when you don't want the recipients of the list to see the email addresses of the other recipients.
However, if you use the Expand Addresses feature of the address book when selecting your mailing list entry from the address book for use in a message, Agent inserts all of the addresses from the list into the message, and does note use the Field Text. Select the message folder that has the corrupted database. If you cannot select this folder directly, select it with the surrounding folders by clicking on the one just above it and then holding the Shift key click on the one immediately below it.
Then from the File menu, select the Repair Selected Folders command. This starts a wizard to guide you through the repair process. You can choose to repair a damaged folder, or recover deleted messages, or both.
You can tell it to perform the repair, or you can tell it to only analyze for results but not to actually recover anything. Other options include recovering only messages with bodies because you may not be interested in items with only headers, only complete messages because Agent will re-use space marked as available which can lead to messages being partly overwritten when they've been deleted or corrupted, and to mark recovered items as unread so you can easily find them.
As always, you can click the Help button for more detailed information about the options. When you click the Next button, the wizard will start to work. There will be two progress bars at the top showing you the progress over all and for the current folder. Under that will be the list of results showing you the folder name and the name of the database file pair, the number of messages in the folder before the wizard ran, how many of them were valid before the wizard ran, how many damaged messages were repaired by the wizard, how many deleted messages were recovered, and the new total of messages after the wizard ran.
After you create one or more Personas, you assign them to folders from the Properties for the folder s in question. Default Properties affects email and newsgroup folders. Properties overrides the defaults for the selected folder s. To have Agent automatically check for mail, go to Tools Options Inbound Email Checking For Mail and set the option Automatically check for email every [ ] minutes and provide a value for the box. Select the appropriate suboption from the list below it. If you're on a dialup connection, either of the first two will work for you; the first will cause Agent to check only when it's online, the second will cause Agent to dial and close the connection when it checks for mail.
The third option is good if you're on an always-on connection ie, cable, dsl, etc and want Agent to check for mail whenver it's loaded, not only when it's actually online with the news server. The easiest way is to click the binoculars at the top of the message list pane and select or create the view you want.
You can also use the View Custom Message View menu. For convenience you can place the Message View commands on the toolbar. Message views are saved per folder type, not per folder. There are seven folder types: Drafts General Purpose Mail Newsgroup Outbox Sent Trash When you change a view while in a type of folder, it will change the view for all folders of that type, and this view is saved when you close Agent.
Configuring multiple POP3 accounts or servers is done in exactly the same way as configuring for multiple usenet accounts or servers. The junk filter in Agent uses Bayesian Statistical Analysis to determin what is and what is not junk.
The filter starts off knowing nothing; it learns as you teach it. When something is routed to a message folder that is really junk, simply move it to the Junk folder, and Agent will train itself that that message, and messages like it, are junk.
If a message is routed to the Junk folder that really isn't junk, simply move it to where it should go and Agent will train itself that that message, and messages like it, are not junk. The junk filter considers your address book to be a whitelist and will not even look at messages from these contacts unless the "Detect Junk messages sent by this contact" setting is enabled on that specific contact's record.
This works for individual contacts, mailing list records and domain records in the address book. When you select either the Copy or Move to Folder menu option the flyout menu will list up to nine folders that you have specified, followed by a menu option "All Folders You should put the folders that you copy or move messages to most frequently on the flyout menu so that they are easily accessible. There are two listboxes shown on the configuration panel. The top one shows a list of all folders that aren't already displayed on the menu.
The bottom one shows the folders that do appear on the menu. To add a folder to the menu, select a folder from the Folders listbox and click on Add. The folder name will appear in the Menu listbox. There are no ordering buttons. Rather items are added above the highlight. Message Folders Newsgroup folder Binary newsgroup folder Email folder General purpose folder Special Folders Junk folder Inbox folder Outbox folder Sent folder Drafts folder Trash folder The main reason why there are so many is so that each kind of folder can have its own View Messages settings.
For example, set a newsgroup folder to view only messages that are unread, this setting applies to all newsgroup folders. But at the same time you might set Binary newsgroup folder to display only messages with bodies. This is a variation of SSL where an unsecured inital connection is made first to establish the raw connection and then a command is sent to the server to switch to a secured connection to send and receive data.
Your choices are to not use a secure connection, to connect securely on the standard SSL port, to connect securely with TLS "if available" revert to a non-secured connection if the StartTLS command is rejected and to connect securely with TLS and "fail if unavailable" fail to complete the task with an error message.
When you remove a folder, you are only removing it from the current desk. When you delete a folder, it's completely gone from Agent. When you delete a desk, you are removing the desk, but not any of the folders assigned to it. They will remain in any other desk they've been assigned to, specifically including the All folders desk, which contains every folder you have in Agent. There is a setting under Folder [Default] Properties Posting Messages called 'File replies in same folder as original message'.
If you remove the checkmark from the box, Agent will file the message in the Outbox. The All Folders desk contains your Agent folders. To delete it means you would also delete all your folders.
All other desks that you may create merely hold shortcuts to the folders. The File Import Messages option is grayed if you have no folders configured in Agent. One very good reason to use multiple Desks is to organize your list of folders into categories. These categories can be based on anything you want. Some suggestions include, but are certainly not limited to, Desks specific for email folders, folders for newsgroups you always read and newsgroups you occasionally read.
If you're using Windows XP, make sure that Agent is not running by checking the system's Task Manager and then re-run the Agent installer. If the problem persists, reboot, delete the agent. If you are using Windows 7 or 8 or Windows Vista, start by rebooting, then uninstall Agent. Now, go to your VirtualStore folder and delete any and all files related to Agent. See What files does Agent use? After you delete those files, you can re-install Agent and it should now work.
The error message "Connection closed unexpectedly by server" means that the server disconnected from your computer without telling your computer that it was going to do so.
This is usually caused by an extremely busy server trying to free up resources to handle tasks more efficiently. Usenet Discussions Video coming soon. Agent Email Video coming soon. Customize Agent Video coming soon.
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