Thoth is a usenet newsreader, available as a PowerPC or Intel binary for Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.8, localized for both English and French languages. Thoth offers powerful and flexible filtering of usenet posts, including live filtering. Reference-based article threading is available, along with with a handy view of the thread tree in the window of the article you're reading.
Multiple news servers can be used at the same time, with multiple connections per news server. Many preferences settings can be specified on a per newsgroup or per newsgroup hierarchy basis, making it easy to have the optimal settings for binary and non-binary newsgroups, newsgroups in different languages, etc. Its built-in decoder for file attachments handles the usual encoding methods including yEnc. Images from binary posts can be viewed inline, in a dedicated image window, or in an image catalog window. Binary posting is supported, as are multiple personalities allowing different email addresses, signatures, etc. to be used in different newsgroups or situations. There is full support for SSL connections to news and SMTP servers and NZB files and header compression.
v1.9
-trial version of this application.
- Made some changes to work around issues due to changed sleep behaviors in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Previously, Thoth sometimes seem to hang after the system had been put to sleep and then awakened until the escape key or command-period was pressed. As part of the work-around, Thoth now always monitor system sleep events, so the DoSleepTesting setting (see comments under 1.9.0.19 below) is now obsolete and ignored. Note however that to help Thoth handle the loss of network connectivity when it has open news server connections, especially when sleep is forced while Thoth is busy, enabling network connectivity testing as described in 1.9.0.18 below is recommended.
- There's also a new Miscellaneous prefs setting "Prevent Sleep If Busy" to have Thoth prevent the system from sleeping when idle if there are download tasks, etc. to perform. Note that this setting only affects idle sleep, and has no effect if the Mac is manually put to sleep via the Sleep command, etc.
- Changed how the dock is bounced and alerts are shown when Thoth is in the background.
