1 GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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11 ** Group Carbon Copy (GCC) quoting
13 To support groups that contains SPC and other weird characters, groups
14 are quoted before they are placed in the Gcc: header. While this
15 should not cause problems, errorenous local customization may cause
16 problems. In particular, if you have local customizations (e.g.,
17 variables such as gnus-message-archive-group) that return the string
18 "nnml:foo, nnml:bar" (indicating Gcc into two groups) you must change
19 it to return the list ("nnml:foo" "nnml:bar"), otherwise the Gcc: line
20 will be quoted incorrectly. Note that returning the string "nnml:foo,
21 nnml:bar" was incorrect earlier, it just didn't generate any problems.
25 The Gnus Agent is now enabled by default, and all nntp and nnimap
26 servers from gnus-select-method and gnus-secondary-select-method are
27 agentized by default. Earlier only the server in gnus-select-method
28 was agentized by the default, and the agent was disabled by default.
29 When the agent is enabled, headers are now also retrieved from the
30 Agent cache instead of the backends when possible. Earlier this only
31 happened in the unplugged state. You can enroll or remove servers
32 with `J a' and `J r' in the server buffer. Gnus will not download
33 articles into the Agent cache, unless you instruct it to do so,
34 though, by using `J u' or `J s' from the Group buffer. You revert to
35 the old behaviour of having the Agent disabled with `(setq gnus-agent
36 nil)'. Note that putting (gnus-agentize) in ~/.gnus is not needed any
39 ** gnus-summary-line-format
41 The default value changed to "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n".
42 Moreover gnus-extra-headers, nnmail-extra-headers and
43 gnus-ignored-from-addresses changed their default so that the users
44 name will be replaced by the recipient's name or the group name
45 posting to for NNTP groups.
47 ** deuglify.el (gnus-article-outlook-deuglify-article)
49 A new file from Raymond Scholz <rscholz@zonix.de> for deuglifying
50 broken Outlook (Express) articles.
52 ** (require 'gnus-load)
54 If you use a stand-alone Gnus distribution, you'd better add (require
55 'gnus-load) into your ~/.emacs after adding the Gnus lisp directory
58 File gnus-load.el contains autoload commands, functions and variables,
59 some of which may not be included in distributions of Emacsen.
61 ** gnus-slave-unplugged
63 A new command which starts gnus offline in slave mode.
65 ** message-insinuate-rmail
67 Adding (message-insinuate-rmail) and (setq mail-user-agent
68 'gnus-user-agent) in .emacs convinces RMAIL to compose, reply and
69 forward messages in message-mode, where you can enjoy the power of
72 ** message-minibuffer-local-map
74 The line below enables BBDB in resending a message:
76 (define-key message-minibuffer-local-map [(tab)] 'bbdb-complete-name)
78 ** Externalize attachments.
80 If gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments (or
81 message-fcc-externalize-attachments) is non-nil, attach local files as
84 Command gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip (bound to \C-o on MIME buttons)
85 saves a part and replaces the part with an external one. It works only
86 on back ends that support editing.
88 ** gnus-default-charset
90 The default value is determined from the current-language-environment
91 variable, instead of 'iso-8859-1. Also the ".*" item in
92 gnus-group-charset-alist is removed.
94 ** gnus-posting-styles
96 Add a new format of match like
98 ((header "to" "larsi.*org")
99 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
101 The old format like the lines below is obsolete.
103 (header "to" "larsi.*org"
104 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
106 ** message-ignored-news-headers and message-ignored-mail-headers
108 X-Draft-From and X-Gnus-Agent-Meta-Information have been added into
109 these two variables. If you customized those, perhaps you need add
110 those two headers too.
112 ** Gnus reads the NOV and articles in the Agent if plugged.
114 If one reads an article while plugged, and the article already exists
115 in the Agent, it won't get downloaded once more. (setq
116 gnus-agent-cache nil) reverts to the old behavior.
118 ** Gnus supports the "format=flowed" (RFC 2646) parameter.
120 On composing messages, it is enabled by `use-hard-newlines'. Decoding
121 format=flowed was present but not documented in earlier versions.
123 ** Gnus supports the generation of RFC 2298 Disposition Notification requests.
125 This is invoked with the C-c M-n key binding from message mode.
127 ** Gnus supports Maildir groups.
129 Gnus includes a new backend nnmaildir.el.
131 ** Printing capabilities are enhanced.
133 Gnus supports Muttprint natively with O P from the Summary and Article
134 buffers. Also, each individual MIME part can be printed using p on
137 ** Message supports the Importance: (RFC 2156) header.
139 In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-u cycles through the valid values.
141 ** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
143 This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
144 used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for
145 cancelling/superseding). The behaviour can be changed by customizing
146 `message-insert-canlock'.
148 ** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
150 Sieve rules can be added as Group Parameters for groups, and the
151 complete Sieve script is generated using `D g' from the Group buffer,
152 and then uploaded to the server using `C-c C-l' in the generated Sieve
153 buffer. Search the online Gnus manual for "sieve", and see the new
154 Sieve manual, for more information.
156 ** Extended format specs.
158 Format spec "%&user-date;" is added into
159 gnus-summary-line-format-alist. Also, user defined extended format
160 specs are supported. The extended format specs look like "%u&foo;",
161 which invokes function gnus-user-format-function-foo. Because "&" is
162 used as the escape character, old user defined format "%u&" is no
165 ** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
167 It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
168 function filters out other articles.
170 ** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
172 This is supposedly what USEFOR wants to migrate to. See
173 `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
174 `gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
176 ** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
178 This makes it possible to take backup of nnml/nnfolder servers/groups
179 separately of .newsrc.eld, while preserving marks. It also makes it
180 possible to share articles and marks between users (without sharing
181 the .newsrc.eld file) within e.g. a department. It works by storing
182 the marks stored in .newsrc.eld in a per-group file ".marks" (for
183 nnml) and "groupname.mrk" (for nnfolder, named "groupname"). If the
184 nnml/nnfolder is moved to another machine, Gnus will automatically use
185 the .marks or .mrk file instead of the information in .newsrc.eld.
186 The new server variables `nnml-marks-is-evil' and
187 `nnfolder-marks-is-evil' can be used to disable this feature.
189 ** The menu bar (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has been
192 ** The menu bar (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
195 ** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
197 The regexps in these variables are compared with full group names
198 instead of real group names in 5.8. Users who customize these
199 variables should change those regexps accordingly. For example:
201 ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
203 ** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP/MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
204 S/MIME (RFC 2630-2633).
206 ** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
208 ** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
210 This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
211 `back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
214 * Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
216 The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
217 four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
218 internationalization and mail-fetching.
220 ** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
221 many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
223 If you used procmail like in
225 (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
226 (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
227 (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
228 (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
230 this now has changed to
233 '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
236 More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
237 Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
239 ** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
240 Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
242 ** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
243 many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
245 ** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
246 called to position point.
248 ** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
249 summary buffers and NOV files.
251 ** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
252 of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
254 ** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
255 subtly different manner.
257 ** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
258 and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
259 ever-changing layouts.
261 ** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
264 * For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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