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