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".
13 The Gnus Agent is now enabled by default. This means that, e.g.,
14 headers are not downloaded from agentized servers by default (agentize
15 servers by using `J a' in the server buffer). Gnus will not start to
16 download articles unless you instruct it to do so, though, by using
17 e.g. J u or J s from the group buffer. Revert to the old behaviour
18 with `(setq gnus-agent nil)'. Note that putting (gnus-agentize) in
19 ~/.gnus is not needed any more. Now, by default all nntp and nnimap
20 servers from gnus-select-method and gnus-secondary-select-method are
21 agentized by default (earlier only the server in gnus-select-method
22 was agentized). You can view and change which servers should be
23 agentized in the Server Buffer.
25 ** gnus-summary-line-format
27 The default value changed to "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n".
28 Moreover gnus-extra-headers, nnmail-extra-headers and
29 gnus-ignored-from-addresses changed their default so that the users
30 name will be replaced by the recipient's name or the group name
31 posting to for NNTP groups.
33 ** deuglify.el (gnus-article-outlook-deuglify-article)
35 A new file from Raymond Scholz <rscholz@zonix.de> for deuglifying
36 broken Outlook (Express) articles.
38 ** (require 'gnus-load)
40 If you use a stand-alone Gnus distribution, you'd better add (require
41 'gnus-load) into your ~/.emacs after adding the Gnus lisp directory
44 File gnus-load.el contains autoload commands, functions and variables,
45 some of which may not be included in distributions of Emacsen.
47 ** gnus-slave-unplugged
49 A new command which starts gnus offline in slave mode.
51 ** message-insinuate-rmail
53 Adding (message-insinuate-rmail) and (setq mail-user-agent
54 'gnus-user-agent) in .emacs convinces RMAIL to compose, reply and
55 forward messages in message-mode, where you can enjoy the power of
58 ** message-minibuffer-local-map
60 The line below enables BBDB in resending a message:
62 (define-key message-minibuffer-local-map [(tab)] 'bbdb-complete-name)
64 ** Externalize attachments.
66 If gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments (or
67 message-fcc-externalize-attachments) is non-nil, attach local files as
70 Command gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip (bound to \C-o on MIME buttons)
71 saves a part and replaces the part with an external one. It works only
72 on back ends that support editing.
74 ** gnus-default-charset
76 The default value is determined from the current-language-environment
77 variable, instead of 'iso-8859-1. Also the ".*" item in
78 gnus-group-charset-alist is removed.
80 ** gnus-posting-styles
82 Add a new format of match like
84 ((header "to" "larsi.*org")
85 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
87 The old format like the lines below is obsolete.
89 (header "to" "larsi.*org"
90 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
92 ** message-ignored-news-headers and message-ignored-mail-headers
94 X-Draft-From and X-Gnus-Agent-Meta-Information have been added into
95 these two variables. If you customized those, perhaps you need add
96 those two headers too.
98 ** Gnus reads the NOV and articles in the Agent if plugged.
100 If one reads an article while plugged, and the article already exists
101 in the Agent, it won't get downloaded once more. (setq
102 gnus-agent-cache nil) reverts to the old behavior.
104 ** Gnus supports the "format=flowed" (RFC 2646) parameter.
106 On composing messages, it is enabled by `use-hard-newlines'. Decoding
107 format=flowed was present but not documented in earlier versions.
109 ** Gnus supports the generation of RFC 2298 Disposition Notification requests.
111 This is invoked with the C-c M-n key binding from message mode.
113 ** Gnus supports Maildir groups.
115 Gnus includes a new backend nnmaildir.el.
117 ** Printing capabilities are enhanced.
119 Gnus supports Muttprint natively with O P from the Summary and Article
120 buffers. Also, each individual MIME part can be printed using p on
123 ** Message supports the Importance: (RFC 2156) header.
125 In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-u cycles through the valid values.
127 ** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
129 This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
130 used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for
131 cancelling/superseding). The behaviour can be changed by customizing
132 `message-insert-canlock'.
134 ** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
136 Sieve rules can be added as Group Parameters for groups, and the
137 complete Sieve script is generated using `D g' from the Group buffer,
138 and then uploaded to the server using `C-c C-l' in the generated Sieve
139 buffer. Search the online Gnus manual for "sieve", and see the new
140 Sieve manual, for more information.
142 ** Extended format specs.
144 Format spec "%&user-date;" is added into
145 gnus-summary-line-format-alist. Also, user defined extended format
146 specs are supported. The extended format specs look like "%u&foo;",
147 which invokes function gnus-user-format-function-foo. Because "&" is
148 used as the escape character, old user defined format "%u&" is no
151 ** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
153 It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
154 function filters out other articles.
156 ** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
158 This is supposedly what USEFOR wants to migrate to. See
159 `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
160 `gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
162 ** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
164 This makes it possible to take backup of nnml/nnfolder servers/groups
165 separately of .newsrc.eld, while preserving marks. It also makes it
166 possible to share articles and marks between users (without sharing
167 the .newsrc.eld file) within e.g. a department. It works by storing
168 the marks stored in .newsrc.eld in a per-group file ".marks" (for
169 nnml) and "groupname.mrk" (for nnfolder, named "groupname"). If the
170 nnml/nnfolder is moved to another machine, Gnus will automatically use
171 the .marks or .mrk file instead of the information in .newsrc.eld.
172 The new server variables `nnml-marks-is-evil' and
173 `nnfolder-marks-is-evil' can be used to disable this feature.
175 ** The menu bar (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has been
178 ** The menu bar (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
181 ** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
183 The regexps in these variables are compared with full group names
184 instead of real group names in 5.8. Users who customize these
185 variables should change those regexps accordingly. For example:
187 ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
189 ** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP/MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
190 S/MIME (RFC 2630-2633).
192 ** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
194 ** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
196 This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
197 `back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
200 * Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
202 The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
203 four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
204 internationalization and mail-fetching.
206 ** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
207 many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
209 If you used procmail like in
211 (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
212 (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
213 (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
214 (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
216 this now has changed to
219 '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
222 More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
223 Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
225 ** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
226 Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
228 ** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
229 many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
231 ** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
232 called to position point.
234 ** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
235 summary buffers and NOV files.
237 ** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
238 of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
240 ** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
241 subtly different manner.
243 ** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
244 and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
245 ever-changing layouts.
247 ** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
250 * For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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