Configure Article...

Opens a dialog box allowing you configure options related to article view windows.

Toolbar Size

Allows you to adjust the toolbar size in the article list window small (original size), medium or large.

Wrap article text to...

If checked, and a number is specified here, WinVN will wrap article text during retrieval to this number of characters. This is useful when retrieving articles posted by people who have written their article with very long lines, or (as is sometimes the case due to misconfigured posting software) their article has ended up all on one line with no line breaks). Note that this will only affect newly retrieved articles, as the lines are wrapped during article retrieval.

Trim headers during article retrieval

If checked, WinVN will trim article headers during retrieval, by ignoring any article headers not included in the following list: Newsgroups, From, Subject, Date, Reply-To, Distribution, Message-Id, Keywords, Summary. This will clean up incoming articles by removing potentially confusing headers like Path, and X-headers. Note that this will only affect newly retrieved articles, as the headers are trimmed during article retrieval.

Decode MIME Header

If checked, WinVN will decode headers which contains characters above the normal ascii-characters ( 0x80 - 0xFF) . These must encoded by RFC 2047. Such encoding is shown usual like =?ISO-8859-1?Q?da=DF?= . Note, that Decode MIME Header does not mean to encode headers conforming to RFC 2047. Encoding outgoing articles is depending on setting Encode MIME Header in Configure Composition dialog

Decode text/plain if necessary

If checked, WinVN will transform any article which is MIME-coded as single-part message Content-Type: text/plain from Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable or base64 to CONTENT-TRANSFER-ENCODING: 8bit. In rare cases 7bit is declared if this is true. Note, that using all characters uppercase except 8bit (or 7bit) should show you a transformed article. However, this is a vaild header and in rare cases this can be part of a article, not the result of transformation. The former encoding is shown as (was: quoted-printable) or (was: base64).

Truncate signatures

If checked, WinVN will truncate the signatures of all articles you view. WinVN scans for the delimiter introduced by son-of-RFC 1036, a single line containing two dashes and a space. This and all following lines will not be shown.

New window for each article

If checked, WinVN will attempt to create a new article window for each article selected from the group article-list window. If this option is not checked, WinVN will reuse an existing article window to display newly-requested articles.

Scroll past headers after retrieval

If checked, WinVN will scroll the article view window past the headers upon completion of article retrieval.

Italicize quotes in article window

If checked, WinVN will italicize quoted text in the article view window. Quoted text is any line beginning with the '>' quote character. This is useful in distinguishing the reference text from the response, but may not be very readable with your selected fonts. See Configuring Fonts.

Show Author name in window title

If checked, the authors name is placed in the window title along with the subject.

Autosearch unread groups

Show X-Face Image

If you would like WinVn to decode and show you the X-Face and Face Images encoded by the authors of the article, set this checkbox.

See Saving Configuration Information.