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".
11 ** Smileys (":-)", ";-)" etc) are now iconized for Emacs too.
13 Put (setq gnus-treat-display-smileys nil) in ~/.emacs to disable it.
15 ** Gnus no longer generate the Sender: header automatically.
17 Earlier it was generated iff the user configurable email address was
18 different from the Gnus guessed default user address. As the guessing
19 algorithm is rarely correct these days, and (more controversally) the
20 only use of the Sender: header was to check if you are entitled to
21 cancel/supersede news (which is now solved by Cancel Locks instead,
22 see another entry), generation of the header has been disabled by
23 default. See the variables `message-required-headers',
24 `message-required-news-headers', and `message-required-mail-headers'.
26 ** Features from third party message-utils.el added to message.el.
28 Message now asks if you wish to remove "(was: <old subject>)" from
29 subject lines (see `message-subject-trailing-was-query'). C-c M-m and
30 C-c M-f inserts markers indicating included text. C-c C-f a adds a
31 X-No-Archive: header. C-c C-f x inserts appropriate headers and a
32 note in the body for cross-postings and followups (see the variables
33 `message-cross-post-*').
35 ** References and X-Draft-Headers are no longer generated when you
36 start composing messages.
38 ** Improved anti-spam features.
40 Gnus is now able to take out spam from your mail and news streams
41 using a wide variety of programs and filter rules. Among the supported
42 methods are RBL blocklists, bogofilter and white/blacklists. Hooks
43 for easy use of external packages such as SpamAssassin and Hashcash
46 ** Easy inclusion of X-Faces headers.
48 ** In the summary buffer, the new command / N inserts new messages and
49 / o inserts old messages.
51 ** Gnus decodes morse encoded messages if you press W m.
53 ** Unread count correct in nnimap groups.
55 The estimated number of unread articles in the group buffer should now
56 be correct for nnimap groups. This is achieved by calling
57 `nnimap-fixup-unread-after-getting-new-news' from the
58 `gnus-setup-news-hook' (called on startup) and
59 gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook. (called after getting new mail). If
60 you have modified those variables from the default, you may want to
61 add n-f-u-a-g-n-n again. If you were happy with the estimate and want
62 to save some (minimal) time when getting new mail, remove the
65 ** Group Carbon Copy (GCC) quoting
67 To support groups that contains SPC and other weird characters, groups
68 are quoted before they are placed in the Gcc: header. This means
69 variables such as `gnus-message-archive-group' should no longer
70 contain quote characters to make groups containing SPC work. Also, if
71 you are using the string "nnml:foo, nnml:bar" (indicating Gcc into two
72 groups) you must change it to return the list ("nnml:foo" "nnml:bar"),
73 otherwise the Gcc: line will be quoted incorrectly. Note that
74 returning the string "nnml:foo, nnml:bar" was incorrect earlier, it
75 just didn't generate any problems since it was inserted directly.
77 ** ~/News/overview/ not used.
79 As a result of the following change, the ~/News/overview/ directory is
80 not used any more. You can safely delete the entire hierarchy.
84 The Gnus Agent has seen a major updated and is now enabled by default,
85 and all nntp and nnimap servers from gnus-select-method and
86 gnus-secondary-select-method are agentized by default. Earlier only
87 the server in gnus-select-method was agentized by the default, and the
88 agent was disabled by default. When the agent is enabled, headers are
89 now also retrieved from the Agent cache instead of the backends when
90 possible. Earlier this only happened in the unplugged state. You can
91 enroll or remove servers with `J a' and `J r' in the server buffer.
92 Gnus will not download articles into the Agent cache, unless you
93 instruct it to do so, though, by using `J u' or `J s' from the Group
94 buffer. You revert to the old behaviour of having the Agent disabled
95 with `(setq gnus-agent nil)'. Note that putting (gnus-agentize) in
96 ~/.gnus is not needed any more.
98 ** gnus-summary-line-format
100 The default value changed to "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n".
101 Moreover gnus-extra-headers, nnmail-extra-headers and
102 gnus-ignored-from-addresses changed their default so that the users
103 name will be replaced by the recipient's name or the group name
104 posting to for NNTP groups.
106 ** deuglify.el (gnus-article-outlook-deuglify-article)
108 A new file from Raymond Scholz <rscholz@zonix.de> for deuglifying
109 broken Outlook (Express) articles.
111 ** (require 'gnus-load)
113 If you use a stand-alone Gnus distribution, you'd better add (require
114 'gnus-load) into your ~/.emacs after adding the Gnus lisp directory
117 File gnus-load.el contains autoload commands, functions and variables,
118 some of which may not be included in distributions of Emacsen.
120 ** gnus-slave-unplugged
122 A new command which starts gnus offline in slave mode.
124 ** message-insinuate-rmail
126 Adding (message-insinuate-rmail) and (setq mail-user-agent
127 'gnus-user-agent) in .emacs convinces RMAIL to compose, reply and
128 forward messages in message-mode, where you can enjoy the power of
131 ** message-minibuffer-local-map
133 The line below enables BBDB in resending a message:
135 (define-key message-minibuffer-local-map [(tab)] 'bbdb-complete-name)
137 ** Externalize attachments.
139 If gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments (or
140 message-fcc-externalize-attachments) is non-nil, attach local files as
143 Command gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip (bound to \C-o on MIME buttons)
144 saves a part and replaces the part with an external one. It works only
145 on back ends that support editing.
147 ** gnus-default-charset
149 The default value is determined from the current-language-environment
150 variable, instead of 'iso-8859-1. Also the ".*" item in
151 gnus-group-charset-alist is removed.
153 ** gnus-posting-styles
155 Add a new format of match like
157 ((header "to" "larsi.*org")
158 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
160 The old format like the lines below is obsolete, but still accepted.
162 (header "to" "larsi.*org"
163 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
165 ** message-ignored-news-headers and message-ignored-mail-headers
167 X-Draft-From and X-Gnus-Agent-Meta-Information have been added into
168 these two variables. If you customized those, perhaps you need add
169 those two headers too.
171 ** Gnus reads the NOV and articles in the Agent if plugged.
173 If one reads an article while plugged, and the article already exists
174 in the Agent, it won't get downloaded once more. (setq
175 gnus-agent-cache nil) reverts to the old behavior.
177 ** Gnus supports the "format=flowed" (RFC 2646) parameter.
179 On composing messages, it is enabled by `use-hard-newlines'. Decoding
180 format=flowed was present but not documented in earlier versions.
182 ** Gnus supports the generation of RFC 2298 Disposition Notification requests.
184 This is invoked with the C-c M-n key binding from message mode.
186 ** Gnus supports Maildir groups.
188 Gnus includes a new backend nnmaildir.el.
190 ** Printing capabilities are enhanced.
192 Gnus supports Muttprint natively with O P from the Summary and Article
193 buffers. Also, each individual MIME part can be printed using p on
196 ** Message supports the Importance: (RFC 2156) header.
198 In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-u cycles through the valid values.
200 ** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
202 This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
203 used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for
204 cancelling/superseding). The behaviour can be changed by customizing
205 `message-insert-canlock'.
207 ** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
209 Sieve rules can be added as Group Parameters for groups, and the
210 complete Sieve script is generated using `D g' from the Group buffer,
211 and then uploaded to the server using `C-c C-l' in the generated Sieve
212 buffer. Search the online Gnus manual for "sieve", and see the new
213 Sieve manual, for more information.
215 ** Extended format specs.
217 Format spec "%&user-date;" is added into
218 gnus-summary-line-format-alist. Also, user defined extended format
219 specs are supported. The extended format specs look like "%u&foo;",
220 which invokes function gnus-user-format-function-foo. Because "&" is
221 used as the escape character, old user defined format "%u&" is no
224 ** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
226 It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
227 function filters out other articles.
229 ** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
231 This is supposedly what USEFOR wants to migrate to. See
232 `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
233 `gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
235 ** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
237 This makes it possible to take backup of nnml/nnfolder servers/groups
238 separately of .newsrc.eld, while preserving marks. It also makes it
239 possible to share articles and marks between users (without sharing
240 the .newsrc.eld file) within e.g. a department. It works by storing
241 the marks stored in .newsrc.eld in a per-group file ".marks" (for
242 nnml) and "groupname.mrk" (for nnfolder, named "groupname"). If the
243 nnml/nnfolder is moved to another machine, Gnus will automatically use
244 the .marks or .mrk file instead of the information in .newsrc.eld.
245 The new server variables `nnml-marks-is-evil' and
246 `nnfolder-marks-is-evil' can be used to disable this feature.
248 ** The menu bar item (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has
249 been renamed to "Gnus".
251 ** The menu bar item (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
254 ** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
256 The regexps in these variables are compared with full group names
257 instead of real group names in 5.8. Users who customize these
258 variables should change those regexps accordingly. For example:
260 ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
262 ** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP/MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
263 ** S/MIME (RFC 2630-2633).
264 It needs an external S/MIME and OpenPGP implementation, but no additional
267 ** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
269 ** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
271 This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
272 `back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
277 * Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
279 The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
280 four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
281 internationalization and mail-fetching.
283 ** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
284 many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
286 If you used procmail like in
288 (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
289 (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
290 (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
291 (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
293 this now has changed to
296 '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
299 More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
300 Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
302 ** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
303 Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
305 ** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
306 many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
308 ** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
309 called to position point.
311 ** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
312 summary buffers and NOV files.
314 ** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
315 of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
317 ** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
318 subtly different manner.
320 ** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
321 and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
322 ever-changing layouts.
324 ** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
327 * For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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