1 GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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6 For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
11 ** References and X-Draft-Headers are no longer generated when you
12 start composing messages.
14 ** Improved anti-speam features.
16 ** Easy inclusion of X-Faces headers.
18 ** In the summary buffer, the new command / N inserts new messages and
19 / o inserts old messages.
21 ** Gnus decodes morse encoded messages if you press W m.
23 ** Unread count correct in nnimap groups.
25 The estimated number of unread articles in the group buffer should now
26 be correct for nnimap groups. This is achieved by calling
27 `nnimap-fixup-unread-after-getting-new-news' from the
28 `gnus-setup-news-hook' (called on startup) and
29 gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook. (called after getting new mail). If
30 you have modified those variables from the default, you may want to
31 add n-f-u-a-g-n-n again. If you were happy with the estimate and want
32 to save some (minimal) time when getting new mail, remove the
35 ** Group Carbon Copy (GCC) quoting
37 To support groups that contains SPC and other weird characters, groups
38 are quoted before they are placed in the Gcc: header. This means
39 variables such as `gnus-message-archive-group' should no longer
40 contain quote characters to make groups containing SPC work. Also, if
41 you are using the string "nnml:foo, nnml:bar" (indicating Gcc into two
42 groups) you must change it to return the list ("nnml:foo" "nnml:bar"),
43 otherwise the Gcc: line will be quoted incorrectly. Note that
44 returning the string "nnml:foo, nnml:bar" was incorrect earlier, it
45 just didn't generate any problems since it was inserted directly.
47 ** ~/News/overview/ not used.
49 As a result of the following change, the ~/News/overview/ directory is
50 not used any more. You can safely delete the entire hierarchy.
54 The Gnus Agent has seen a major updated and is now enabled by default,
55 and all nntp and nnimap servers from gnus-select-method and
56 gnus-secondary-select-method are agentized by default. Earlier only
57 the server in gnus-select-method was agentized by the default, and the
58 agent was disabled by default. When the agent is enabled, headers are
59 now also retrieved from the Agent cache instead of the backends when
60 possible. Earlier this only happened in the unplugged state. You can
61 enroll or remove servers with `J a' and `J r' in the server buffer.
62 Gnus will not download articles into the Agent cache, unless you
63 instruct it to do so, though, by using `J u' or `J s' from the Group
64 buffer. You revert to the old behaviour of having the Agent disabled
65 with `(setq gnus-agent nil)'. Note that putting (gnus-agentize) in
66 ~/.gnus is not needed any more.
68 ** gnus-summary-line-format
70 The default value changed to "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n".
71 Moreover gnus-extra-headers, nnmail-extra-headers and
72 gnus-ignored-from-addresses changed their default so that the users
73 name will be replaced by the recipient's name or the group name
74 posting to for NNTP groups.
76 ** deuglify.el (gnus-article-outlook-deuglify-article)
78 A new file from Raymond Scholz <rscholz@zonix.de> for deuglifying
79 broken Outlook (Express) articles.
81 ** (require 'gnus-load)
83 If you use a stand-alone Gnus distribution, you'd better add (require
84 'gnus-load) into your ~/.emacs after adding the Gnus lisp directory
87 File gnus-load.el contains autoload commands, functions and variables,
88 some of which may not be included in distributions of Emacsen.
90 ** gnus-slave-unplugged
92 A new command which starts gnus offline in slave mode.
94 ** message-insinuate-rmail
96 Adding (message-insinuate-rmail) and (setq mail-user-agent
97 'gnus-user-agent) in .emacs convinces RMAIL to compose, reply and
98 forward messages in message-mode, where you can enjoy the power of
101 ** message-minibuffer-local-map
103 The line below enables BBDB in resending a message:
105 (define-key message-minibuffer-local-map [(tab)] 'bbdb-complete-name)
107 ** Externalize attachments.
109 If gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments (or
110 message-fcc-externalize-attachments) is non-nil, attach local files as
113 Command gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip (bound to \C-o on MIME buttons)
114 saves a part and replaces the part with an external one. It works only
115 on back ends that support editing.
117 ** gnus-default-charset
119 The default value is determined from the current-language-environment
120 variable, instead of 'iso-8859-1. Also the ".*" item in
121 gnus-group-charset-alist is removed.
123 ** gnus-posting-styles
125 Add a new format of match like
127 ((header "to" "larsi.*org")
128 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
130 The old format like the lines below is obsolete.
132 (header "to" "larsi.*org"
133 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
135 ** message-ignored-news-headers and message-ignored-mail-headers
137 X-Draft-From and X-Gnus-Agent-Meta-Information have been added into
138 these two variables. If you customized those, perhaps you need add
139 those two headers too.
141 ** Gnus reads the NOV and articles in the Agent if plugged.
143 If one reads an article while plugged, and the article already exists
144 in the Agent, it won't get downloaded once more. (setq
145 gnus-agent-cache nil) reverts to the old behavior.
147 ** Gnus supports the "format=flowed" (RFC 2646) parameter.
149 On composing messages, it is enabled by `use-hard-newlines'. Decoding
150 format=flowed was present but not documented in earlier versions.
152 ** Gnus supports the generation of RFC 2298 Disposition Notification requests.
154 This is invoked with the C-c M-n key binding from message mode.
156 ** Gnus supports Maildir groups.
158 Gnus includes a new backend nnmaildir.el.
160 ** Printing capabilities are enhanced.
162 Gnus supports Muttprint natively with O P from the Summary and Article
163 buffers. Also, each individual MIME part can be printed using p on
166 ** Message supports the Importance: (RFC 2156) header.
168 In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-u cycles through the valid values.
170 ** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
172 This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
173 used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for
174 cancelling/superseding). The behaviour can be changed by customizing
175 `message-insert-canlock'.
177 ** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
179 Sieve rules can be added as Group Parameters for groups, and the
180 complete Sieve script is generated using `D g' from the Group buffer,
181 and then uploaded to the server using `C-c C-l' in the generated Sieve
182 buffer. Search the online Gnus manual for "sieve", and see the new
183 Sieve manual, for more information.
185 ** Extended format specs.
187 Format spec "%&user-date;" is added into
188 gnus-summary-line-format-alist. Also, user defined extended format
189 specs are supported. The extended format specs look like "%u&foo;",
190 which invokes function gnus-user-format-function-foo. Because "&" is
191 used as the escape character, old user defined format "%u&" is no
194 ** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
196 It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
197 function filters out other articles.
199 ** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
201 This is supposedly what USEFOR wants to migrate to. See
202 `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
203 `gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
205 ** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
207 This makes it possible to take backup of nnml/nnfolder servers/groups
208 separately of .newsrc.eld, while preserving marks. It also makes it
209 possible to share articles and marks between users (without sharing
210 the .newsrc.eld file) within e.g. a department. It works by storing
211 the marks stored in .newsrc.eld in a per-group file ".marks" (for
212 nnml) and "groupname.mrk" (for nnfolder, named "groupname"). If the
213 nnml/nnfolder is moved to another machine, Gnus will automatically use
214 the .marks or .mrk file instead of the information in .newsrc.eld.
215 The new server variables `nnml-marks-is-evil' and
216 `nnfolder-marks-is-evil' can be used to disable this feature.
218 ** The menu bar (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has been
221 ** The menu bar (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
224 ** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
226 The regexps in these variables are compared with full group names
227 instead of real group names in 5.8. Users who customize these
228 variables should change those regexps accordingly. For example:
230 ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
232 ** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP/MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
233 ** S/MIME (RFC 2630-2633).
234 It needs an external S/MIME and OpenPGP implementation, but no additional
237 ** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
239 ** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
241 This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
242 `back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
247 * Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
249 The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
250 four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
251 internationalization and mail-fetching.
253 ** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
254 many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
256 If you used procmail like in
258 (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
259 (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
260 (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
261 (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
263 this now has changed to
266 '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
269 More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
270 Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
272 ** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
273 Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
275 ** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
276 many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
278 ** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
279 called to position point.
281 ** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
282 summary buffers and NOV files.
284 ** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
285 of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
287 ** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
288 subtly different manner.
290 ** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
291 and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
292 ever-changing layouts.
294 ** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
297 * For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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