Hello PJ, Am Montag, 5. April 2021, 09:58:43 CEST schrieb pj.world@gmx.com:

I did provide one for the email and double checked multiple times. Then I noticed the following email message from my provider in inbox shortly after my initial email. ->

[....]

The protocols will also be deactivated if you have set up your GMX mailbox for use in an email programme before, but you have not used it for a long period of time.

To use this function, you must set up the protocols or reactivate them in your mailbox settings. You will find step-by-step instructions in the ​GMX Help Section.

-> This needs to be done first to get your regular email access back

Otherwise, we recommend using the GMX App for ​iOS or ​Android. This application also offers direct access to your mailbox.

(Which is IMHO a bad idea....)

I am much more concerned with using Thunderbird for Newsgroups initially since I have never done that before. I don't want to be off topic here if I am. Is it more secure to just continue to login to my email provider through my webbrowser?

If you prefer UI overloaded with advertising and tons of external scripts running, go ahead. I doubt that GMX provides access to Newsgroups - at least I could not spot it on the web frontend. I used to have a separate News provider - party the network provider has a news server running Or do you talk about Mailing lists as 'Newsgroups'? They come as normal mails into your mailbox.....so just use SMTP and IMAP to fetch mails with Thunderbird HTH Axel

Le 05/04/2021 à 10:54, pj.world@gmx.com a écrit :

I would like to be able to read "alt.os.linus.SUSE Busy Group".

I have "alt.os.linux.suse" only in my usenet server (free.fr) did you notice the typo, it's probably not "linus" but linux. nothing to do with gmx jdd -- http://dodin.org

On 05/04/2021 09.58, pj.world@gmx.com wrote:

I did provide one for the email and double checked multiple times. Then I noticed the following email message from my provider in inbox shortly after my initial email.

The email setup in Thunderbird is not related at all to the news setup. In fact, it is customary in Usenet to provide a FALSE or FAKED email account. For example: pj@countrycode.invalid If you want to set up email in Thunderbird, ask about it in another subthread. Don't mix the issues.

I am much more concerned with using Thunderbird for Newsgroups initially since I have never done that before. I don't want to be off topic here if I am. Is it more secure to just continue to login to my email provider through my webbrowser? Thank you

It is not offtopic. You say you want news first, so ignore email, don't set it up. However, it is usually preferable to use email via Thunderbird or suitable client rather than web browser - but your ISP may require you to configure for it first in the web page. That's fine. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)

Hello PJ, Am Montag, 5. April 2021, 09:58:43 CEST schrieb pj.world@gmx.com:

I did provide one for the email and double checked multiple times. Then I noticed the following email message from my provider in inbox shortly after my initial email. ->

[....]

The protocols will also be deactivated if you have set up your GMX mailbox for use in an email programme before, but you have not used it for a long period of time.

To use this function, you must set up the protocols or reactivate them in your mailbox settings. You will find step-by-step instructions in the ​GMX Help Section.

-> This needs to be done first to get your regular email access back

Otherwise, we recommend using the GMX App for ​iOS or ​Android. This application also offers direct access to your mailbox.

(Which is IMHO a bad idea....)

I am much more concerned with using Thunderbird for Newsgroups initially since I have never done that before. I don't want to be off topic here if I am. Is it more secure to just continue to login to my email provider through my webbrowser?

If you prefer UI overloaded with advertising and tons of external scripts running, go ahead. I doubt that GMX provides access to Newsgroups - at least I could not spot it on the web frontend. I used to have a separate News provider - party the network provider has a news server running Or do you talk about Mailing lists as 'Newsgroups'? They come as normal mails into your mailbox.....so just use SMTP and IMAP to fetch mails with Thunderbird HTH Axel

Le 05/04/2021 à 10:54, pj.world@gmx.com a écrit :

I would like to be able to read "alt.os.linus.SUSE Busy Group".

I have "alt.os.linux.suse" only in my usenet server (free.fr) did you notice the typo, it's probably not "linus" but linux. nothing to do with gmx jdd -- http://dodin.org

On 05/04/2021 09.58, pj.world@gmx.com wrote:

I did provide one for the email and double checked multiple times. Then I noticed the following email message from my provider in inbox shortly after my initial email.

The email setup in Thunderbird is not related at all to the news setup. In fact, it is customary in Usenet to provide a FALSE or FAKED email account. For example: pj@countrycode.invalid If you want to set up email in Thunderbird, ask about it in another subthread. Don't mix the issues.

I am much more concerned with using Thunderbird for Newsgroups initially since I have never done that before. I don't want to be off topic here if I am. Is it more secure to just continue to login to my email provider through my webbrowser? Thank you

It is not offtopic. You say you want news first, so ignore email, don't set it up. However, it is usually preferable to use email via Thunderbird or suitable client rather than web browser - but your ISP may require you to configure for it first in the web page. That's fine. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)