In this settings dialog you can choose between the three connection modes BeInformed provides:
This is the old style. You connect to the servers and BeInformed terminates the connection as soon as it finishes the news poll.
BeInformed will connect regularily to the servers and terminate connection after each single poll.
Once you connect to the servers, BeInformed will keep the connection alive and poll the servers continuously.
In this mode, all the articles that have been fetched until the connection is stopped will be found together in New articles. There is no distinction between the various polls in that session.
Note: If you post an article, it may take some time before it can be sent. Check Outgoing articles to be sure whether your articles were posted or not.
If you select Connect at startup, BeInformed will start a connection right after launching. This connection behaves as determined by the settings described before.
Close will close the dialog without saving the changes, while Save saves only the changes you made in this tab view. If you select another tab and then close the dialog, changes in other tabs will be lost unless you save them separately.