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Jingle please: Gnus 5.10 is released, get it while it's
hot! As well as the step in version number is rather
small, Gnus 5.10 has tons of new features which you
-shouldn't miss. The current release (5.10.6) should be at
+shouldn't miss. The current release (5.13) should be at
least as stable as the latest release of the 5.8 series.
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@subsubheading Answer
-The latest released version of Gnus isn't included in
-Emacs 21, therefor you should get the Gnus tarball from
-@uref{http://www.gnus.org/dist/gnus.tar.gz}
-or via anonymous FTP from
+Gnus is released independent from releases of Emacs and XEmacs.
+Therefore, the version bundled with Emacs or the version in XEmacs'
+package system might not be up to date (e.g. Gnus 5.9 bundled with Emacs
+20 is outdated).
+@c
+You can get the latest released version of Gnus from
+@uref{http://www.gnus.org/dist/gnus.tar.gz} or via anonymous FTP from
@uref{ftp://ftp.gnus.org/pub/gnus/gnus.tar.gz}.
-If you use XEmacs instead of Emacs you can use XEmacs'
-package system instead.
@node [1.4]
@subsubheading Question 1.4
@end example
@noindent
-in your autoexec.bat and reboot. Under NT, 2000 and XP,
-hit Winkey+Pause/Break to enter system options (if it
-doesn't work, go to Control Panel -> System). There you'll
-find the possibility to set environment variables, create
-a new one with name HOME and value C:\myhome, a reboot is
-not necessary.
+in your autoexec.bat and reboot. Under NT, 2000 and XP, hit
+Winkey+Pause/Break to enter system options (if it doesn't work, go to
+Control Panel -> System -> Advanced). There you'll find the possibility
+to set environment variables. Create a new one with name HOME and value
+C:\myhome. Rebooting is not necessary.
Now to create ~/.gnus.el, say
@samp{C-x C-f ~/.gnus.el RET C-x C-s}.
@noindent
You might have to tweak the values for stream and/or
-authentification, see the Gnus manual node "Mail Source
+authentication, see the Gnus manual node "Mail Source
Specifiers" for possible values.
If you want to use IMAP the way it's intended, you've got to
@subsubheading Answer
-Say
+Starting from No Gnus, automatic word-wrap is already enabled by
+default, see the variable message-fill-column.
+
+For other versions of Gnus, say
@example
-(add-hook 'message-mode-hook
- (lambda ()
- (setq fill-column 72)
- (turn-on-auto-fill)))
+(unless (boundp 'message-fill-column)
+ (add-hook 'message-mode-hook
+ (lambda ()
+ (setq fill-column 72)
+ (turn-on-auto-fill))))
@end example
@noindent
-in ~/.gnus.el. You can reformat a paragraph by hitting
-@samp{M-q} (as usual)
+in ~/.gnus.el.
+
+You can reformat a paragraph by hitting @samp{M-q} (as usual).
@node [5.3]
@subsubheading Question 5.3
@end example
@noindent
-in ~/.gnus.el. If you use Gnus 5.9 or ealier, you can use this
+in ~/.gnus.el. If you use Gnus 5.9 or earlier, you can use this
instead (works for newer versions a well):
@example
yourUserName.userfqdn.provider.net, or you can use
somethingUnique.yourdomain.tld if you own the domain
yourdomain.tld, or you can register at a service which
-gives private users a FQDN for free, e.g.
-@uref{http://www.stura.tu-freiberg.de/~dlx/addfqdn.html}.
-(Sorry but this website is in German, if you know of an
-English one offering the same, drop me a note).
+gives private users a FQDN for free.
Finally you can tell Gnus not to generate a Message-ID
for News at all (and letting the server do the job) by saying
@subsubheading Answer
-Point your IRC client to irc.my.gnus.org channel
-#mygnus. Don't be afraid if people there speak German,
-they are willing and capable of switching to
-English when people from outside Germany enter.
+Point your IRC client to irc.freenode.net, channel #gnus.
@node FAQ 9 - Tuning Gnus
@subsection Tuning Gnus