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From: Keith <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Newsreader that keeps messages and has a good text search
Date: 14 Aug 2024 14:00:03 GMT
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On 2024-08-12, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've been using Thunderbird since Google Groups shut down, but I mostly 
> enjoyed GG for the ability to quickly find messages by keywords.  I set 
> TB to keep all messages, but it's search has been horrible and can't 
> find hardly anything.  It also had a bug last week where it 
> re-downloaded all the messages and now everything older than a week just 
> comes up with an error.
>
> Now Thunderbird has just decided there's no messages in this group, when 
> I just downloaded the last 500 and started looking at them.
>
> One of the other I'm looking for is the ability to retain all messages 
> in a particular newsgroup,
>
> Also built in spellcheck. I remember I tried a couple other newsreaders 
> like x-news which is supposed to have a way to set up spellcheck but I 
> couldn't get working.
>
> I'm on PC, so running in Windows (10 right now) is a must.
>
> I don't care at all about binaries as I'm using eternal-september.  I 
> don't mind paying a little, and am considering Agent too.
>

 Agent 8.0 has global search, a spell checker and supports news & snews.

You can find a registration key for it in a search on google groups.
Agent is now abandonware, so you can no longer buy a registration key.

<https://web.archive.org/web/20211204062601/https://www.forteinc.com/agent/trial.php>