1 GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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6 For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
11 ** Better handling of Microsoft citation styles
13 Gnus now tries to recognize the mangled header block that some
14 Microsoft mailers use to indicate that the rest of the message is a
15 citation, even though it is not quoted in any way. The variable
16 `gnus-unsightly-citation-regexp' matches the start of these citations.
18 ** gnus-article-skip-boring
20 If you set `gnus-article-skip-boring' to t, then Gnus will not scroll
21 down to show you a page that contains only boring text, which by
22 default means cited text and signature. You can customize what is
23 skippable using `gnus-article-boring-faces'.
25 This feature is especially useful if you read many articles that
26 consist of a little new content at the top with a long, untrimmed
29 ** The format spec %C for positioning point has changed to %*.
31 ** The new variable `gnus-parameters' can be used to set group parameters.
33 Earlier this was done only via `G p' (or `G c'), which stored the
34 parameters in ~/.newsrc.eld, but via this variable you can enjoy the
35 powers of customize, and simplified backups since you set the variable
36 in ~/.emacs instead of ~/.newsrc.eld. The variable maps regular
37 expressions matching group names to group parameters, a'la:
41 (gnus-show-threads nil)
42 (gnus-use-scoring nil))
43 ("^nnimap:\\(foo.bar\\)$"
46 ** Smileys (":-)", ";-)" etc) are now iconized for Emacs too.
48 Put (setq gnus-treat-display-smileys nil) in ~/.emacs to disable it.
50 ** Gnus no longer generate the Sender: header automatically.
52 Earlier it was generated iff the user configurable email address was
53 different from the Gnus guessed default user address. As the guessing
54 algorithm is rarely correct these days, and (more controversally) the
55 only use of the Sender: header was to check if you are entitled to
56 cancel/supersede news (which is now solved by Cancel Locks instead,
57 see another entry), generation of the header has been disabled by
58 default. See the variables `message-required-headers',
59 `message-required-news-headers', and `message-required-mail-headers'.
61 ** Features from third party message-utils.el added to message.el.
63 Message now asks if you wish to remove "(was: <old subject>)" from
64 subject lines (see `message-subject-trailing-was-query'). C-c M-m and
65 C-c M-f inserts markers indicating included text. C-c C-f a adds a
66 X-No-Archive: header. C-c C-f x inserts appropriate headers and a
67 note in the body for cross-postings and followups (see the variables
68 `message-cross-post-*').
70 ** References and X-Draft-Headers are no longer generated when you
71 start composing messages.
73 ** Improved anti-spam features.
75 Gnus is now able to take out spam from your mail and news streams
76 using a wide variety of programs and filter rules. Among the supported
77 methods are RBL blocklists, bogofilter and white/blacklists. Hooks
78 for easy use of external packages such as SpamAssassin and Hashcash
81 ** Easy inclusion of X-Faces headers.
83 ** In the summary buffer, the new command / N inserts new messages and
84 / o inserts old messages.
86 ** Gnus decodes morse encoded messages if you press W m.
88 ** Unread count correct in nnimap groups.
90 The estimated number of unread articles in the group buffer should now
91 be correct for nnimap groups. This is achieved by calling
92 `nnimap-fixup-unread-after-getting-new-news' from the
93 `gnus-setup-news-hook' (called on startup) and
94 gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook. (called after getting new mail). If
95 you have modified those variables from the default, you may want to
96 add n-f-u-a-g-n-n again. If you were happy with the estimate and want
97 to save some (minimal) time when getting new mail, remove the
100 ** Group Carbon Copy (GCC) quoting
102 To support groups that contains SPC and other weird characters, groups
103 are quoted before they are placed in the Gcc: header. This means
104 variables such as `gnus-message-archive-group' should no longer
105 contain quote characters to make groups containing SPC work. Also, if
106 you are using the string "nnml:foo, nnml:bar" (indicating Gcc into two
107 groups) you must change it to return the list ("nnml:foo" "nnml:bar"),
108 otherwise the Gcc: line will be quoted incorrectly. Note that
109 returning the string "nnml:foo, nnml:bar" was incorrect earlier, it
110 just didn't generate any problems since it was inserted directly.
112 ** ~/News/overview/ not used.
114 As a result of the following change, the ~/News/overview/ directory is
115 not used any more. You can safely delete the entire hierarchy.
119 The Gnus Agent has seen a major updated and is now enabled by default,
120 and all nntp and nnimap servers from gnus-select-method and
121 gnus-secondary-select-method are agentized by default. Earlier only
122 the server in gnus-select-method was agentized by the default, and the
123 agent was disabled by default. When the agent is enabled, headers are
124 now also retrieved from the Agent cache instead of the backends when
125 possible. Earlier this only happened in the unplugged state. You can
126 enroll or remove servers with `J a' and `J r' in the server buffer.
127 Gnus will not download articles into the Agent cache, unless you
128 instruct it to do so, though, by using `J u' or `J s' from the Group
129 buffer. You revert to the old behaviour of having the Agent disabled
130 with `(setq gnus-agent nil)'. Note that putting (gnus-agentize) in
131 ~/.gnus is not needed any more.
133 ** gnus-summary-line-format
135 The default value changed to "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n".
136 Moreover gnus-extra-headers, nnmail-extra-headers and
137 gnus-ignored-from-addresses changed their default so that the users
138 name will be replaced by the recipient's name or the group name
139 posting to for NNTP groups.
141 ** deuglify.el (gnus-article-outlook-deuglify-article)
143 A new file from Raymond Scholz <rscholz@zonix.de> for deuglifying
144 broken Outlook (Express) articles.
146 ** (require 'gnus-load)
148 If you use a stand-alone Gnus distribution, you'd better add (require
149 'gnus-load) into your ~/.emacs after adding the Gnus lisp directory
152 File gnus-load.el contains autoload commands, functions and variables,
153 some of which may not be included in distributions of Emacsen.
155 ** gnus-slave-unplugged
157 A new command which starts gnus offline in slave mode.
159 ** message-insinuate-rmail
161 Adding (message-insinuate-rmail) and (setq mail-user-agent
162 'gnus-user-agent) in .emacs convinces RMAIL to compose, reply and
163 forward messages in message-mode, where you can enjoy the power of
166 ** message-minibuffer-local-map
168 The line below enables BBDB in resending a message:
170 (define-key message-minibuffer-local-map [(tab)] 'bbdb-complete-name)
172 ** Externalize attachments.
174 If gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments (or
175 message-fcc-externalize-attachments) is non-nil, attach local files as
178 Command gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip (bound to \C-o on MIME buttons)
179 saves a part and replaces the part with an external one. It works only
180 on back ends that support editing.
182 ** gnus-default-charset
184 The default value is determined from the current-language-environment
185 variable, instead of 'iso-8859-1. Also the ".*" item in
186 gnus-group-charset-alist is removed.
188 ** gnus-posting-styles
190 Add a new format of match like
192 ((header "to" "larsi.*org")
193 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
195 The old format like the lines below is obsolete, but still accepted.
197 (header "to" "larsi.*org"
198 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
200 ** message-ignored-news-headers and message-ignored-mail-headers
202 X-Draft-From and X-Gnus-Agent-Meta-Information have been added into
203 these two variables. If you customized those, perhaps you need add
204 those two headers too.
206 ** Gnus reads the NOV and articles in the Agent if plugged.
208 If one reads an article while plugged, and the article already exists
209 in the Agent, it won't get downloaded once more. (setq
210 gnus-agent-cache nil) reverts to the old behavior.
212 ** Gnus supports the "format=flowed" (RFC 2646) parameter.
214 On composing messages, it is enabled by `use-hard-newlines'. Decoding
215 format=flowed was present but not documented in earlier versions.
217 ** Gnus supports the generation of RFC 2298 Disposition Notification requests.
219 This is invoked with the C-c M-n key binding from message mode.
221 ** Gnus supports Maildir groups.
223 Gnus includes a new backend nnmaildir.el.
225 ** Printing capabilities are enhanced.
227 Gnus supports Muttprint natively with O P from the Summary and Article
228 buffers. Also, each individual MIME part can be printed using p on
231 ** Message supports the Importance: (RFC 2156) header.
233 In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-u cycles through the valid values.
235 ** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
237 This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
238 used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for
239 cancelling/superseding). The behaviour can be changed by customizing
240 `message-insert-canlock'.
242 ** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
244 Sieve rules can be added as Group Parameters for groups, and the
245 complete Sieve script is generated using `D g' from the Group buffer,
246 and then uploaded to the server using `C-c C-l' in the generated Sieve
247 buffer. Search the online Gnus manual for "sieve", and see the new
248 Sieve manual, for more information.
250 ** Extended format specs.
252 Format spec "%&user-date;" is added into
253 gnus-summary-line-format-alist. Also, user defined extended format
254 specs are supported. The extended format specs look like "%u&foo;",
255 which invokes function gnus-user-format-function-foo. Because "&" is
256 used as the escape character, old user defined format "%u&" is no
259 ** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
261 It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
262 function filters out other articles.
264 ** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
266 This is supposedly what USEFOR wants to migrate to. See
267 `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
268 `gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
270 ** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
272 This makes it possible to take backup of nnml/nnfolder servers/groups
273 separately of .newsrc.eld, while preserving marks. It also makes it
274 possible to share articles and marks between users (without sharing
275 the .newsrc.eld file) within e.g. a department. It works by storing
276 the marks stored in .newsrc.eld in a per-group file ".marks" (for
277 nnml) and "groupname.mrk" (for nnfolder, named "groupname"). If the
278 nnml/nnfolder is moved to another machine, Gnus will automatically use
279 the .marks or .mrk file instead of the information in .newsrc.eld.
280 The new server variables `nnml-marks-is-evil' and
281 `nnfolder-marks-is-evil' can be used to disable this feature.
283 ** The menu bar item (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has
284 been renamed to "Gnus".
286 ** The menu bar item (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
289 ** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
291 The regexps in these variables are compared with full group names
292 instead of real group names in 5.8. Users who customize these
293 variables should change those regexps accordingly. For example:
295 ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
297 ** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP/MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
298 ** S/MIME (RFC 2630-2633).
299 It needs an external S/MIME and OpenPGP implementation, but no additional
302 ** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
304 ** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
306 This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
307 `back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
312 * Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
314 The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
315 four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
316 internationalization and mail-fetching.
318 ** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
319 many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
321 If you used procmail like in
323 (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
324 (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
325 (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
326 (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
328 this now has changed to
331 '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
334 More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
335 Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
337 ** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
338 Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
340 ** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
341 many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
343 ** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
344 called to position point.
346 ** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
347 summary buffers and NOV files.
349 ** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
350 of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
352 ** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
353 subtly different manner.
355 ** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
356 and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
357 ever-changing layouts.
359 ** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
362 * For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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