1 GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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6 For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
11 ** Gnus supports the generation of RFC 2298 Disposition Notification requests.
13 This is invoked with the C-c M-n key binding from message mode.
15 ** Gnus supports Maildir groups.
17 Gnus includes a new backend nnmaildir.el, by Paul Jarc.
19 ** Printing capabilities are enhanced.
21 Gnus supports Muttprint natively with O P from the Summary and Article
22 buffers. Also, each individual MIME part can be printed using p on
25 ** Message supports the Importance: header.
27 In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-u cycles through the valid values.
29 ** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
31 This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
32 used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for
33 cancelling/superseding). The behaviour can be changed by customizing
34 `message-insert-canlock'.
36 ** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
38 Sieve rules can be added as Group Parameters for groups, and the
39 complete Sieve script is generated using `D g' from the Group buffer,
40 and then uploaded to the server using `C-c C-l' in the generated Sieve
41 buffer. Search the online Gnus manual for "sieve", and see the new
42 Sieve manual, for more information.
44 ** Extended format specs.
46 Format spec "%&user-date;" is added into
47 gnus-summary-line-format-alist. Also, user defined extended format
48 specs are supported. The extended format specs look like "%u&foo;",
49 which invokes function gnus-user-format-function-foo. Because "&" is
50 used as the escape character, old user defined format "%u&" is no
53 ** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
55 It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
56 function filters out other articles.
58 ** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
60 This is supposedly what USEFOR wants to migrate to. See
61 `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
62 `gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
64 ** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
66 This makes it possible to take backup of nnml/nnfolder servers/groups
67 separately of .newsrc.eld, while preserving marks. It also makes it
68 possible to share articles and marks between users (without sharing
69 the .newsrc.eld file) within e.g. a department. It works by storing
70 the marks stored in .newsrc.eld in a per-group file ".marks" (for
71 nnml) and "groupname.mrk" (for nnfolder, named "groupname"). If the
72 nnml/nnfolder is moved to another machine, Gnus will automatically use
73 the .marks or .mrk file instead of the information in .newsrc.eld.
74 The new server variables `nnml-marks-is-evil' and
75 `nnfolder-marks-is-evil' can be used to disable this feature.
77 ** The menu bar (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has been
80 ** The menu bar (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
83 ** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
85 The regexps in these variables are compared with full group names
86 instead of real group names in 5.8. Users who customize these
87 variables should change those regexps accordingly. For example:
89 ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
91 ** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP-MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
94 ** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
96 ** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
98 This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
99 `back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
102 * Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
104 The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
105 four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
106 internationalization and mail-fetching.
108 ** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
109 many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
111 If you used procmail like in
113 (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
114 (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
115 (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
116 (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
118 this now has changed to
121 '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
124 More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
125 Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
127 ** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
128 Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
130 ** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
131 many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
133 ** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
134 called to position point.
136 ** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
137 summary buffers and NOV files.
139 ** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
140 of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
142 ** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
143 subtly different manner.
145 ** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
146 and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
147 ever-changing layouts.
149 ** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
152 * For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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