Re: PC newsreader that keeps messages and has a good text search

Reposted article 3 minutes later by Justisaur, but with a slightly
different Subject.

Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote:

[Tbird] 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.

Not a problem with Tbird.  A problem with ES (the Usenet provider you
use) where a server went down, the articles database got rebuilt which
resulted in new article articles (which won't match those you previously
downloaded).  See the eternal-september.support newsgroup for more info
from Ray.

One of the other I'm looking for is the ability to retain all messages
in a particular newsgroup.

Maybe you specified retention periods for folders or in account
settings.

https://www.lifewire.com/auto-remove-old-mail-thunderbird-1173112
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1081515

Could be you are using a view that hides old or flagged messages.

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.

https://www.lifewire.com/check-spelling-as-you-type-thunderbird-1173155

If you want something different, there are extensions you can add for
spell checking, like:

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/search/?q=spell

By the way, Thunderbird has its own newsgroup over at ---.
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