MyNews as a 'Small office news server'

MyNews allows you to create an own news-server for your business!

• You can place important info for your coworkers and employees
• You can add a helpdesk for your customers (which is far better usable than these ugly webboards)
• You can sponsor other newsgroups

Really simple setup - here an example how to start within 5 minutes !

Ok, it will take 10 minutes....... and I'm still working on the few lines you need to know here.

Here the steps you go:

• Download the MyNews software
• Start the self explaning installation.
• Start MyNews with a click to the icon which has been created on the desktop.
• Use these data for the registration of your servername:
  Unique server name: Your company name
  eMail-address: Your valid eMail
  Community: soho
• Go online and allow online registration.
• Enter your providers news-server info.
  Skip the first news-server setup if you dont want to import newsgroups from the Usenet.
• In the basic configuration these values are used for a LAN server:
  Internet-connection: Manual setting - Input+Output rate is zero.
  Sharing: Yes - I want to share messages with others
  Newsreader or tools - Yes, I want to use my newsreader/tools
  Harddisk-space - Yes, I have LOTS of space on my disk
  LAN - I have a private LAN
  LAN - Some newsreaders/tools are in my LAN
• The rest of the confirmations are all 'yes, ok, finish'.....
• Use the menu function: MainWindow - Config - Parameter setup to set single special options:
• Download-tab: Switch off: Decode attachments automatically, Show JPEG pictures automatically, Show pictures while download.
  Use SAVE to store the changes.
• Upload-tab: Switch off: Feeding activated if you dont use a Usenet server.
  Use SAVE to store the changes.
• Quit the config.
• Now you enter a few test-newsgroups: mynews.local.test and mynews.local.general. Use the Guide function Add newsgroup from the MainWindow.
• Dont activate Get it from Usenet - Activate Get it from the MyNews network.
• Allow sharing on the lcoal groups.
• Download mode is Getting all messages.
• Dont use the feature Download it now.
• Do this twice for both groups. For better group names you need a full license:
  The free license does allow private groups only in the mynews.local.* hierarchy! But this should be enough for testing. You need a full version for commercial use!
• Click the WinBox RUN for watching your MyNews operations. (Below the menu bar in the MainWindow).
• Now use a news-reader to contact your MyNews. The settings are simple:
  Use the computer IP-address as the news-server and the standard port 119.
  (The IP-address of the computer where MyNews is running appears in the MyNews-Status window - Information section: MyIP: x.x.x.x)
• Make a few test-posts and read them with other news-reader.
• Done.

Additional security issues

If your MyNews is located on a computer which is visible in the Internet, then you may want to use additional security features. This is not necessary for a computer which is visible only in your local area network. The freeware version allows you (for private use - or test) - to activate these options:

No newsreaders allowed (this is not used in your local network)
Accept only MyNews friends.
Then create a 'Good-File' with Secu - Edit friends and enter just one line there: the name of your own MyNews.
Now all newsreaders from outside are blocked - and all other MyNews also.

For creating 'access restricitons' by IP-Address: Get the full version and edit the "selective access file".

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