X-Git-Url: http://cgit.sxemacs.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=texi%2Fgnus-faq.texi;h=a053164691f12cb501a669c2154db3a57589fd06;hb=dd9fdb9123576f1c0fa65094365f2ba83937b044;hp=2a1f5ac2cc1fac0610e62bb967a91ce11c123940;hpb=8f7476d4cfadb358d635238ae62c48a89efc6db2;p=gnus diff --git a/texi/gnus-faq.texi b/texi/gnus-faq.texi index 2a1f5ac2c..a05316469 100644 --- a/texi/gnus-faq.texi +++ b/texi/gnus-faq.texi @@ -1,10 +1,11 @@ @c \input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*- @c Uncomment 1st line before texing this file alone. @c %**start of header -@c Copyright (C) 1995, 2001-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +@c Copyright (C) 1995, 2001-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c -@setfilename gnus-faq.info -@settitle Frequently Asked Questions +@c @setfilename gnus-faq.info +@c @settitle Frequently Asked Questions +@c @documentencoding UTF-8 @c %**end of header @c @@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ Please submit features and suggestions to the @email{ding@@gnus.org, ding list}. @node FAQ - Changes -@subheading Changes +@subsection Changes @@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ reference to discontinued service. @end itemize @node FAQ - Introduction -@subheading Introduction +@subsection Introduction This is the Gnus Frequently Asked Questions list. @@ -222,10 +223,9 @@ Which version of Emacs do I need? @subsubheading Answer -Gnus 5.10 requires an Emacs version that is greater than or equal -to Emacs 20.7 or XEmacs 21.1. -The development versions of Gnus (aka No Gnus) requires Emacs 21 -or XEmacs 21.4. +Gnus 5.13 requires an Emacs version that is greater than or equal +to Emacs 23.1 or XEmacs 21.1, although there are some features that +only work on Emacs 24. @node FAQ 1-7 @subsubheading Question 1.7 @@ -705,32 +705,9 @@ retrieves via POP3? @subsubheading Answer -First of all, that's not the way POP3 is intended to work, -if you have the possibility, you should use the IMAP -Protocol if you want your messages to stay on the -server. Nevertheless there might be situations where you -need the feature, but sadly Gnus itself has no predefined -functionality to do so. - -However this is Gnus county so there are possibilities to -achieve what you want. The easiest way is to get an external -program which retrieves copies of the mail and stores them -on disk, so Gnus can read it from there. On Unix systems you -could use, e.g., fetchmail for this, on MS Windows you can use -Hamster, an excellent local news and mail server. - -The other solution would be, to replace the method Gnus -uses to get mail from POP3 servers by one which is capable -of leaving the mail on the server. If you use XEmacs, get -the package mail-lib, it includes an enhanced pop3.el, -look in the file, there's documentation on how to tell -Gnus to use it and not to delete the retrieved mail. For -GNU Emacs look for the file epop3.el which can do the same -(If you know the home of this file, please send me an -e-mail). You can also tell Gnus to use an external program -(e.g., fetchmail) to fetch your mail, see the info node -"Mail Source Specifiers" in the Gnus manual on how to do -it. +Yes, if the POP3 server supports the UIDL control (maybe almost servers +do it nowadays). To do that, add a @code{:leave VALUE} pair to each +POP3 mail source. See @pxref{Mail Source Specifiers} for VALUE. @node FAQ 4 - Reading messages @subsection Reading messages @@ -746,7 +723,7 @@ it. the top of the article buffer? * FAQ 4-6:: I'd like Gnus NOT to render HTML-mails but show me the text part if it's available. How to do it? -* FAQ 4-7:: Can I use some other browser than w3 to render my +* FAQ 4-7:: Can I use some other browser than shr to render my HTML-mails? * FAQ 4-8:: Is there anything I can do to make poorly formatted mails more readable? @@ -891,12 +868,12 @@ too. @node FAQ 4-7 @subsubheading Question 4.7 -Can I use some other browser than w3 to render my HTML-mails? +Can I use some other browser than w3m to render my HTML-mails? @subsubheading Answer Only if you use Gnus 5.10 or younger. In this case you've got the -choice between w3, w3m, links, lynx and html2text, which +choice between shr, w3m, links, lynx and html2text, which one is used can be specified in the variable mm-text-html-renderer, so if you want links to render your mail say @@ -1218,7 +1195,7 @@ from using them): messages? * FAQ 5-3:: How to set stuff like From, Organization, Reply-To, signature...? -* FAQ 5-4:: Can I set things like From, Signature etc group based on +* FAQ 5-4:: Can I set things like From, Signature etc. group based on the group I post too? * FAQ 5-5:: Is there a spell-checker? Perhaps even on-the-fly spell-checking? @@ -1541,8 +1518,9 @@ cat file.face | sed 's/\\/\\\\/g;s/\"/\\\"/g;' > file.face.quoted If you can't use compface, there's an online X-face converter at @uref{http://www.dairiki.org/xface/}. -If you use MS Windows, you could also use the WinFace program from -@uref{http://www.xs4all.nl/~walterln/winface/}. +If you use MS Windows, you could also use the WinFace program, +which used to be available from +@indicateurl{http://www.xs4all.nl/~walterln/winface/}. Now you only have to tell Gnus to include the X-face in your postings by saying @example @@ -1835,15 +1813,20 @@ too. Of course you can also use grep to search through your local mail, but this is both slow for big archives and inconvenient since you are not displaying the found mail -in Gnus. Here comes nnir into action. Nnir is a front end +in Gnus. Here nnir comes into action. Nnir is a front end to search engines like swish-e or swish++ and -others. You index your mail with one of those search +others. You index your mail with one of those search engines and with the help of nnir you can search through the indexed mail and generate a temporary group with all -messages which met your search criteria. If this sound -cool to you get nnir.el from +messages which met your search criteria. If this sounds +cool to you, get nnir.el from +@c FIXME Isn't this file in Gnus? +@ignore +@c Dead link 2013/7. @uref{ftp://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/src/emacs/} -or @uref{ftp://ftp.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/pub/src/emacs/}. +or +@end ignore +@uref{ftp://ftp.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/pub/src/emacs/}. Instructions on how to use it are at the top of the file. @node FAQ 6-4 @@ -1966,7 +1949,7 @@ the easiest solution is a small nntp server like @uref{http://infa.abo.fi/~patrik/sn/, sn}, of course you can also install a full featured news server like -@uref{http://www.isc.org/products/INN/, inn}. +@uref{http://www.isc.org/software/inn/, inn}. Then you want to fetch your Mail, popular choices are @uref{http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/, fetchmail} and @uref{http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/, getmail}.