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-@settitle Frequently Asked Questions
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@email{ding@@gnus.org, ding list}.
@node FAQ - Changes
-@subheading Changes
+@subsection Changes
@end itemize
@node FAQ - Introduction
-@subheading Introduction
+@subsection Introduction
This is the Gnus Frequently Asked Questions list.
@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
@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
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?
@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
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?
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
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
@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}.
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