Email Account Wizardry

[HikerTrash]

I attempted to reach a website’s support team and got an account wizard popup to set up an email something (what exactly I don’t know) which Ive been working through. I am at the part that reads, “Enter name of News Server (NTTP) for example New.badExample.net.”
Im totally confused because why do I need to listen to the news to use email on Manjaro?
Obviously this isn’t the case so what exactly is the spell this wizard trying to cast? And what can I use for a news server?

[cscs]

huh?
Sounds like you have an email client installed and it is respondent to affiliated file-types and/or links.
However that client does things is entirely up to it, and whatever link you clicked may have its own properties … without more information its still all rather a bit of confusion.

[kisun]

Could you tell which mailprogram you use? Standard at xfce should be thunderbird.

For setting up a mail account on thunderbird there is no need for a news server. So are you try to setup a mailaccount or are you interested in a news server?

For setting up mail in thunderbird you can take a look here:

How to Set up Thunderbird Email Client: A Beginner's Guide

[Aragorn]

@HikerTrash

“Enter name of News Server (NTTP) for example New.badExample.net.”

Some email clients ─ e.g. Thunderbird, Claws Mail, Sylpheed, et al ─ support NNTP traffic, which is used for downloading messages from Usenet.

Usenet is a network of servers that all carry a list of discussion groups. These discussions have the look & feel of e-mail, but they are public. Whatever you post to a Usenet newsgroup is (under normal circumstances) propagated to the mirrored groups on the other servers, and vice versa.

Usenet

If you don’t wish to participate in Usenet discussions, then you can skip the step for configuring an NNTP server ─ it’s only for reading anyway, because sending messages to Usenet goes via an SMTP server.

If you do wish to participate in Usenet discussions, then there are still a few free news servers available. Myself, I use news.eternal-september.org, which is based in Germany. Registration is free, but you do need a working email address.

[Aragorn]

Here’s what Usenet looks like in Claws Mail.