1 GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 See the end for copying conditions.
5 Please send Gnus bug reports to bugs@gnus.org.
6 For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
11 ** deuglify.el (gnus-article-outlook-deuglify-article)
13 A new file from Raymond Scholz <rscholz@zonix.de> for deuglifying
14 broken Outlook (Express) articles.
16 ** (require 'gnus-load)
18 If you use a stand-alone Gnus distribution, you'd better add (require
19 'gnus-load) into your ~/.emacs after adding the Gnus lisp directory
22 File gnus-load.el contains autoload commands, functions and variables,
23 some of which may not be included in distributions of Emacsen.
25 ** gnus-slave-unplugged
27 A new command which starts gnus offline in slave mode.
29 ** message-insinuate-rmail
31 Adding (message-insinuate-rmail) and (setq mail-user-agent
32 'gnus-user-agent) in .emacs convinces RMAIL to compose, reply and
33 forward messages in message-mode, where you can enjoy the power of
36 ** message-minibuffer-local-map
38 The line below enables BBDB in resending a message:
40 (define-key message-minibuffer-local-map [(tab)] 'bbdb-complete-name)
42 ** Externalize attachments.
44 If gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments (or
45 message-fcc-externalize-attachments) is non-nil, attach local files as
48 Command gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip (bound to \C-o on MIME buttons)
49 saves a part and replaces the part with an external one. It works only
50 on back ends that support editing.
52 ** gnus-default-charset
54 The default value is determined from the current-language-environment
55 variable, instead of 'iso-8859-1. Also the ".*" item in
56 gnus-group-charset-alist is removed.
58 ** gnus-posting-styles
60 Add a new format of match like
62 ((header "to" "larsi.*org")
63 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
65 The old format like the lines below is obsolete.
67 (header "to" "larsi.*org"
68 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
70 ** message-ignored-news-headers and message-ignored-mail-headers
72 X-Draft-From and X-Gnus-Agent-Meta-Information have been added into
73 these two variables. If you customized those, perhaps you need add
74 those two headers too.
76 ** Gnus reads the NOV and articles in the Agent if plugged.
78 If one reads an article while plugged, and the article already exists
79 in the Agent, it won't get downloaded once more. (setq
80 gnus-agent-cache nil) reverts to the old behavior.
82 ** Gnus supports the "format=flowed" (RFC 2646) parameter.
84 On composing messages, it is enabled by `use-hard-newlines'. Decoding
85 format=flowed was present but not documented in earlier versions.
87 ** Gnus supports the generation of RFC 2298 Disposition Notification requests.
89 This is invoked with the C-c M-n key binding from message mode.
91 ** Gnus supports Maildir groups.
93 Gnus includes a new backend nnmaildir.el.
95 ** Printing capabilities are enhanced.
97 Gnus supports Muttprint natively with O P from the Summary and Article
98 buffers. Also, each individual MIME part can be printed using p on
101 ** Message supports the Importance: header.
103 In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-u cycles through the valid values.
105 ** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
107 This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
108 used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for
109 cancelling/superseding). The behaviour can be changed by customizing
110 `message-insert-canlock'.
112 ** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
114 Sieve rules can be added as Group Parameters for groups, and the
115 complete Sieve script is generated using `D g' from the Group buffer,
116 and then uploaded to the server using `C-c C-l' in the generated Sieve
117 buffer. Search the online Gnus manual for "sieve", and see the new
118 Sieve manual, for more information.
120 ** Extended format specs.
122 Format spec "%&user-date;" is added into
123 gnus-summary-line-format-alist. Also, user defined extended format
124 specs are supported. The extended format specs look like "%u&foo;",
125 which invokes function gnus-user-format-function-foo. Because "&" is
126 used as the escape character, old user defined format "%u&" is no
129 ** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
131 It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
132 function filters out other articles.
134 ** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
136 This is supposedly what USEFOR wants to migrate to. See
137 `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
138 `gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
140 ** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
142 This makes it possible to take backup of nnml/nnfolder servers/groups
143 separately of .newsrc.eld, while preserving marks. It also makes it
144 possible to share articles and marks between users (without sharing
145 the .newsrc.eld file) within e.g. a department. It works by storing
146 the marks stored in .newsrc.eld in a per-group file ".marks" (for
147 nnml) and "groupname.mrk" (for nnfolder, named "groupname"). If the
148 nnml/nnfolder is moved to another machine, Gnus will automatically use
149 the .marks or .mrk file instead of the information in .newsrc.eld.
150 The new server variables `nnml-marks-is-evil' and
151 `nnfolder-marks-is-evil' can be used to disable this feature.
153 ** The menu bar (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has been
156 ** The menu bar (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
159 ** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
161 The regexps in these variables are compared with full group names
162 instead of real group names in 5.8. Users who customize these
163 variables should change those regexps accordingly. For example:
165 ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
167 ** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP-MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
170 ** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
172 ** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
174 This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
175 `back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
178 * Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
180 The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
181 four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
182 internationalization and mail-fetching.
184 ** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
185 many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
187 If you used procmail like in
189 (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
190 (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
191 (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
192 (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
194 this now has changed to
197 '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
200 More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
201 Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
203 ** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
204 Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
206 ** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
207 many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
209 ** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
210 called to position point.
212 ** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
213 summary buffers and NOV files.
215 ** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
216 of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
218 ** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
219 subtly different manner.
221 ** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
222 and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
223 ever-changing layouts.
225 ** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
228 * For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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