Display new News messages difficulty

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John West

Good day all,

I have begun taking a class at the University of Phoenix and my whole
experience revolves around newsgroups. All classroom dialog and interaction
is in the groups. I am having difficulty understanding why when I set up my
entourage 2004 client to check for new messages every 5 minutes it works
fine for the mail accounts but no new news messages are discovered until I
actually go to the subscribed group. I hit send and receive all day long or
wait for the I am checking for new messages in "x" minutes to occur and no
new messages. I click on the subscribed newsgroup and then it actually
checks the server and discovers the new messages. I really like the
threaded view I was able to create with a custom arrangement and don't want
to have to use another viewer. I don't seem to have the problem in
Thunderbird or Unison but since I already have entourage open for other mail
I would prefer to use it.

Just for clarity: All I am looking for is the subscribed newsgroup to turn
BOLD if there are new unread messages. Without needing to physically go and
click on each newsgroup to check.

John West

PB 867Mhz with 640MB ram and Panther 10.3.4.
 
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John West

An Update:

This Microsoft server seems to update when new posts come in, is there
anything I may have set incorrectly that would prevent it from occurring on
the other server account setup? One thing that is different is the fact I
must connect via a user name to get the messages on the University server.
The server I am attaching to seems to be an exchange server, but I am not
sure which version.
 
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Mickey Stevens

I'm not entirely clear on what's going on, so this might or might not help.
Did you add the action to "Receive News" to your Send & Receive All
schedule? If not, go to Tools > Schedules, open the Send & Receive All
schedule, click the "Add Action" button, and select "Receive News" in the
highlighted pop-up. Select the University of Phoenix news server, and then
click the "Account Options" button. Check the subscribed groups you wish to
check for new posts, and click OK. Does that help?

If the above doesn't seem to fix the problem, please e-mail me a screenshot
(Command-Shift-3) of the Send & Receive All schedule. That might give me
some clues for assisting you.
 
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John West

This is the answer. I had to include news as an items in the send ±&
receive all then go in and select which groups to update. Thank you very
much.
 
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