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| <h1 align="CENTER">Eclipse.org Newsgroups - Offline Searching with Outlook Express</h1> |
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| <b>Summary</b> |
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| In this article you will learn how to export the contents of an Eclipse.org newsgroup for offline searching, using Outlook Express. |
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| <p>Last update: Sept. 23, 2004.</p> |
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| <h3>Contents</h3> |
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| <td valign="top" width="60">Step 0:</td> |
| <td valign="top"><a href="#step0">Prerequisites</a></td> |
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| <td valign="top">Step 1:</td> |
| <td valign="top"><a href="#step1">Initiate Offline Download</a> |
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| <td valign="top">Step 2:</td> |
| <td valign="top"><a href="#step2">Searching the Downloaded Newsgroup Posts</a> |
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| name="step0"> </a><a href="#top">contents</a></p> |
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| <h3> Step 0. Prerequisistes</h3> |
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| <p>This walkthrough uses Outlook Express to collect newsgroup posts for offline searching.</p> |
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| <p>If you do not have Outlook (or Outlook Express), you can use <a href="docs.php?doc=docs/SearchingNewsgroups/SearchingNewsgroupsMozilla.html">Mozilla Thunderbird</a>. |
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| <h3> Step 1. Initiate Offline Download</h3> |
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| <p>Launch Outlook Express. For more details on how to set up a connection to <a href="news://news.eclipse.org">news://news.eclipse.org</a>, <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/newsgroup-mailing-list.php">read this</a>.</p> |
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| <p>To extract the contents of your chosen newsgroup for offline reading, right-click that newgroup, and select 'Synchronization Settings >'. Ensure that 'All Messages' is selected.</p> |
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| <p><img src="images/img101.gif" width="452" height="361" border="0" alt=""></p> |
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| <p>Then, right-click that newgroup again, and select 'Properties'. Choose the Synchronize tab, and check the 'When synchronizing this newsgroup, download:' box, and select the 'All messages (headers and bodies)' option.</p> |
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| <p>Select the 'Local File' tab, and click the 'Reset' button. Click 'Yes' when prompted. Click 'OK' to close the Properties panel.</p> |
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| <p><img src="images/img103.gif" width="367" height="443" border="0" alt=""></p> |
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| <p>From the 'Tools' menu, select 'Synchronize Newsgroup'. |
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| <p><img src="images/img104.gif" width="347" height="187" border="0" alt=""></p> |
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| <p>Check the 'Get the following items:' box, and select the 'All messages' option. Click 'OK'.</p> |
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| <p><img src="images/img105.gif" width="353" height="150" border="0" alt=""></p> |
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| <p>Note that depending on the size of the newsgroup, this could take some time. </p> |
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| <p><img src="images/img106.gif" width="488" height="147" border="0" alt=""></p> |
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| <p>At the time of writing, the eclipse.tools.emf newsgroup contained over 6000 posts, which took just under 40 mins to download. The eclipse.technology.xsd newsgroup, with over 1000 posts, took about 5 minutes.</p> |
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| <h3>Step 2. Searching the Downloaded Newsgroup Posts</h3> |
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| <p>From the 'Edit' menu, select 'Find > Message...' (CTRL-SHIFT-F).</p> |
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| <p><img src="images/img107.gif" width="501" height="232" border="0" alt=""></p> |
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| <p>Enter your search terms:</p> |
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| <p><img src="images/img108.gif" width="563" height="439" border="0" alt=""></p> |
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| <p><b>Conclusion</b><br> |
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| In this article, we provided an overview of using Outlook Express to download the contents of an eclipse.org newsgroup for offline searching.</p> |
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