1 GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5 Please send Gnus bug reports to bugs@gnus.org.
6 For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
11 ** Gnus supports the "format=flowed" (RFC 2646) parameter.
13 On composing messages, it is enabled by `use-hard-newlines'. Decoding
14 format=flowed was present but not documented in earlier versions.
16 ** Gnus supports the generation of RFC 2298 Disposition Notification requests.
18 This is invoked with the C-c M-n key binding from message mode.
20 ** Gnus supports Maildir groups.
22 Gnus includes a new backend nnmaildir.el.
24 ** Printing capabilities are enhanced.
26 Gnus supports Muttprint natively with O P from the Summary and Article
27 buffers. Also, each individual MIME part can be printed using p on
30 ** Message supports the Importance: header.
32 In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-u cycles through the valid values.
34 ** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
36 This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
37 used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for
38 cancelling/superseding). The behaviour can be changed by customizing
39 `message-insert-canlock'.
41 ** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
43 Sieve rules can be added as Group Parameters for groups, and the
44 complete Sieve script is generated using `D g' from the Group buffer,
45 and then uploaded to the server using `C-c C-l' in the generated Sieve
46 buffer. Search the online Gnus manual for "sieve", and see the new
47 Sieve manual, for more information.
49 ** Extended format specs.
51 Format spec "%&user-date;" is added into
52 gnus-summary-line-format-alist. Also, user defined extended format
53 specs are supported. The extended format specs look like "%u&foo;",
54 which invokes function gnus-user-format-function-foo. Because "&" is
55 used as the escape character, old user defined format "%u&" is no
58 ** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
60 It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
61 function filters out other articles.
63 ** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
65 This is supposedly what USEFOR wants to migrate to. See
66 `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
67 `gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
69 ** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
71 This makes it possible to take backup of nnml/nnfolder servers/groups
72 separately of .newsrc.eld, while preserving marks. It also makes it
73 possible to share articles and marks between users (without sharing
74 the .newsrc.eld file) within e.g. a department. It works by storing
75 the marks stored in .newsrc.eld in a per-group file ".marks" (for
76 nnml) and "groupname.mrk" (for nnfolder, named "groupname"). If the
77 nnml/nnfolder is moved to another machine, Gnus will automatically use
78 the .marks or .mrk file instead of the information in .newsrc.eld.
79 The new server variables `nnml-marks-is-evil' and
80 `nnfolder-marks-is-evil' can be used to disable this feature.
82 ** The menu bar (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has been
85 ** The menu bar (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
88 ** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
90 The regexps in these variables are compared with full group names
91 instead of real group names in 5.8. Users who customize these
92 variables should change those regexps accordingly. For example:
94 ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
96 ** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP-MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
99 ** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
101 ** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
103 This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
104 `back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
107 * Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
109 The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
110 four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
111 internationalization and mail-fetching.
113 ** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
114 many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
116 If you used procmail like in
118 (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
119 (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
120 (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
121 (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
123 this now has changed to
126 '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
129 More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
130 Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
132 ** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
133 Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
135 ** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
136 many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
138 ** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
139 called to position point.
141 ** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
142 summary buffers and NOV files.
144 ** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
145 of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
147 ** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
148 subtly different manner.
150 ** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
151 and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
152 ever-changing layouts.
154 ** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
157 * For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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