1 GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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6 For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
11 ** gnus-default-charset
13 The default value is determined from the current-language-environment
14 variable, instead of 'iso-8859-1. Also the ".*" item in
15 gnus-group-charset-alist is removed.
17 ** gnus-posting-styles
19 Add a new format of match like
21 ((header "to" "larsi.*org")
22 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
24 The old format like the lines below is obsolete.
26 (header "to" "larsi.*org"
27 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
29 ** message-ignored-news-headers and message-ignored-mail-headers
31 X-Draft-From and X-Gnus-Agent-Meta-Information have been added into
32 these two variables. If you customized those, perhaps you need add
33 those two headers too.
35 ** Gnus reads the NOV and articles in the Agent if plugged.
37 If one reads an article while plugged, and the article already exists
38 in the Agent, it won't get downloaded once more. (setq
39 gnus-agent-cache nil) reverts to the old behavior.
41 ** Gnus supports the "format=flowed" (RFC 2646) parameter.
43 On composing messages, it is enabled by `use-hard-newlines'. Decoding
44 format=flowed was present but not documented in earlier versions.
46 ** Gnus supports the generation of RFC 2298 Disposition Notification requests.
48 This is invoked with the C-c M-n key binding from message mode.
50 ** Gnus supports Maildir groups.
52 Gnus includes a new backend nnmaildir.el.
54 ** Printing capabilities are enhanced.
56 Gnus supports Muttprint natively with O P from the Summary and Article
57 buffers. Also, each individual MIME part can be printed using p on
60 ** Message supports the Importance: header.
62 In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-u cycles through the valid values.
64 ** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
66 This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
67 used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for
68 cancelling/superseding). The behaviour can be changed by customizing
69 `message-insert-canlock'.
71 ** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
73 Sieve rules can be added as Group Parameters for groups, and the
74 complete Sieve script is generated using `D g' from the Group buffer,
75 and then uploaded to the server using `C-c C-l' in the generated Sieve
76 buffer. Search the online Gnus manual for "sieve", and see the new
77 Sieve manual, for more information.
79 ** Extended format specs.
81 Format spec "%&user-date;" is added into
82 gnus-summary-line-format-alist. Also, user defined extended format
83 specs are supported. The extended format specs look like "%u&foo;",
84 which invokes function gnus-user-format-function-foo. Because "&" is
85 used as the escape character, old user defined format "%u&" is no
88 ** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
90 It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
91 function filters out other articles.
93 ** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
95 This is supposedly what USEFOR wants to migrate to. See
96 `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
97 `gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
99 ** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
101 This makes it possible to take backup of nnml/nnfolder servers/groups
102 separately of .newsrc.eld, while preserving marks. It also makes it
103 possible to share articles and marks between users (without sharing
104 the .newsrc.eld file) within e.g. a department. It works by storing
105 the marks stored in .newsrc.eld in a per-group file ".marks" (for
106 nnml) and "groupname.mrk" (for nnfolder, named "groupname"). If the
107 nnml/nnfolder is moved to another machine, Gnus will automatically use
108 the .marks or .mrk file instead of the information in .newsrc.eld.
109 The new server variables `nnml-marks-is-evil' and
110 `nnfolder-marks-is-evil' can be used to disable this feature.
112 ** The menu bar (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has been
115 ** The menu bar (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
118 ** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
120 The regexps in these variables are compared with full group names
121 instead of real group names in 5.8. Users who customize these
122 variables should change those regexps accordingly. For example:
124 ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
126 ** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP-MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
129 ** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
131 ** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
133 This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
134 `back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
137 * Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
139 The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
140 four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
141 internationalization and mail-fetching.
143 ** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
144 many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
146 If you used procmail like in
148 (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
149 (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
150 (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
151 (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
153 this now has changed to
156 '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
159 More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
160 Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
162 ** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
163 Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
165 ** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
166 many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
168 ** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
169 called to position point.
171 ** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
172 summary buffers and NOV files.
174 ** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
175 of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
177 ** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
178 subtly different manner.
180 ** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
181 and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
182 ever-changing layouts.
184 ** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
187 * For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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