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* Changes in Oort Gnus
+** TLS wrapper shipped with Gnus
+
+TLS/SSL is now supported in IMAP and NNTP via tls.el and GNUTLS. The
+old TLS/SSL support via (external third party) ssl.el and OpenSSL
+still works.
+
+** New make.bat for compiling and installing Gnus under MS Windows
+
+Use make.bat if you want to install Gnus under MS Windows, the first
+argument to the batch-program should be the directory where xemacs.exe
+respectively emacs.exe is located, iff you want to install Gnus after
+compiling it, give make.bat /copy as the second parameter.
+
+Make.bat has been rewritten from scratch, it now features automatic
+recognition of XEmacs and GNU Emacs, generates gnus-load.el, checks if
+errors occur while compilation and generation of info files and reports
+them at the end of the build process. It now uses makeinfo if it is
+available and falls back to infohack.el otherwise. Make.bat should now
+install all files which are necessary to run Gnus and be generally a
+complete replacement for the "configure; make; make install" cycle used
+under Unix systems.
+
+The new make.bat makes make-x.bat superfluous, so it has been removed.
+
+** Support for non-ASCII domain names
+
+Message supports non-ASCII domain names in From:, To: and Cc: and will
+query you whether to perform encoding when you try to send a message.
+The variable `message-use-idna' controls this. Gnus will also decode
+non-ASCII domain names in From:, To: and Cc: when you view a message.
+The variable `gnus-use-idna' controls this.
+
+** Better handling of Microsoft citation styles
+
+Gnus now tries to recognize the mangled header block that some Microsoft
+mailers use to indicate that the rest of the message is a citation, even
+though it is not quoted in any way. The variable
+`gnus-cite-unsightly-citation-regexp' matches the start of these
+citations.
+
+** gnus-article-skip-boring
+
+If you set `gnus-article-skip-boring' to t, then Gnus will not scroll
+down to show you a page that contains only boring text, which by
+default means cited text and signature. You can customize what is
+skippable using `gnus-article-boring-faces'.
+
+This feature is especially useful if you read many articles that
+consist of a little new content at the top with a long, untrimmed
+message cited below.
+
+** The format spec %C for positioning point has changed to %*.
+
+** The new variable `gnus-parameters' can be used to set group parameters.
+
+Earlier this was done only via `G p' (or `G c'), which stored the
+parameters in ~/.newsrc.eld, but via this variable you can enjoy the
+powers of customize, and simplified backups since you set the variable
+in ~/.emacs instead of ~/.newsrc.eld. The variable maps regular
+expressions matching group names to group parameters, a'la:
+
+ (setq gnus-parameters
+ '(("mail\\..*"
+ (gnus-show-threads nil)
+ (gnus-use-scoring nil))
+ ("^nnimap:\\(foo.bar\\)$"
+ (to-group . "\\1"))))
+
** Smileys (":-)", ";-)" etc) are now iconized for Emacs too.
Put (setq gnus-treat-display-smileys nil) in ~/.emacs to disable it.
Message now asks if you wish to remove "(was: <old subject>)" from
subject lines (see `message-subject-trailing-was-query'). C-c M-m and
C-c M-f inserts markers indicating included text. C-c C-f a adds a
-X-No-Archive: header. Improved crosspost follow behaviour with
-`message-cross-post-*'.
+X-No-Archive: header. C-c C-f x inserts appropriate headers and a
+note in the body for cross-postings and followups (see the variables
+`message-cross-post-*').
** References and X-Draft-Headers are no longer generated when you
- start composing messages.
+ start composing messages and `message-generate-headers-first' is nil.
-** Improved anti-speam features.
+** Improved anti-spam features.
+
+Gnus is now able to take out spam from your mail and news streams
+using a wide variety of programs and filter rules. Among the supported
+methods are RBL blocklists, bogofilter and white/blacklists. Hooks
+for easy use of external packages such as SpamAssassin and Hashcash
+are also new.
** Easy inclusion of X-Faces headers.
to save some (minimal) time when getting new mail, remove the
function.
+** gnus-inews-mark-gcc-as-read has been renamed to gnus-gcc-mark-as-read.
+
** Group Carbon Copy (GCC) quoting
To support groups that contains SPC and other weird characters, groups
((header "to" "larsi.*org")
(Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
-The old format like the lines below is obsolete.
+The old format like the lines below is obsolete, but still accepted.
(header "to" "larsi.*org"
(Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
-This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
-used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for
-cancelling/superseding). The behaviour can be changed by customizing
-`message-insert-canlock'.
+This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
+used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for cancelling and
+superseding). Gnus generates a random password string the first time
+you post a message, and saves it in your ~/.emacs using the Custom
+system. While the variable is called `canlock-password', it is not
+security sensitive data. Publishing your canlock string on the web
+will not allow anyone to be able to anything she could not already do.
+The behaviour can be changed by customizing `message-insert-canlock'.
** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
-This is supposedly what USEFOR wants to migrate to. See
+This is supposedly what USEFOR wanted to migrate to. See
`gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
`gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
The new server variables `nnml-marks-is-evil' and
`nnfolder-marks-is-evil' can be used to disable this feature.
-** The menu bar (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has been
-renamed to "Gnus".
+** The menu bar item (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has
+been renamed to "Gnus".
-** The menu bar (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
+** The menu bar item (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
"Attachments".
** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP/MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
** S/MIME (RFC 2630-2633).
-It needs an external S/MIME and OpenPGP implementation, but no additional
-lisp libraries.
+It needs an external S/MIME and OpenPGP implementation, but no
+additional lisp libraries. This add several menu items to the
+Attachments menu, and C-c RET key bindings, when composing messages.
+This also obsoletes `gnus-article-hide-pgp-hook'.
** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
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