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