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[Emacs-diffs] Changes to gnus-faq.texi |
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Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:37:03 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /sources/emacs
Module name: emacs
Changes by: Glenn Morris <gm> 07/09/06 04:37:03
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address@hidden \input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
address@hidden Uncomment 1st line before texing this file alone.
address@hidden %**start of header
address@hidden Copyright (C) 1995, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
address@hidden
address@hidden Do not modify this file, it was generated from gnus-faq.xml,
available from
address@hidden <URL:http://my.gnus.org/FAQ/>.
address@hidden
address@hidden gnus-faq.info
address@hidden Frequently Asked Questions
address@hidden %**end of header
address@hidden
-
address@hidden Frequently Asked Questions
address@hidden Frequently Asked Questions
-
address@hidden
-* FAQ - Changes::
-* FAQ - Introduction:: About Gnus and this FAQ.
-* FAQ 1 - Installation FAQ:: Installation of Gnus.
-* FAQ 2 - Startup / Group buffer:: Start up questions and the
- first buffer Gnus shows you.
-* FAQ 3 - Getting Messages:: Making Gnus read your mail
- and news.
-* FAQ 4 - Reading messages:: How to efficiently read
- messages.
-* FAQ 5 - Composing messages:: Composing mails or Usenet
- postings.
-* FAQ 6 - Old messages:: Importing, archiving,
- searching and deleting messages.
-* FAQ 7 - Gnus in a dial-up environment:: Reading mail and news while
- offline.
-* FAQ 8 - Getting help:: When this FAQ isn't enough.
-* FAQ 9 - Tuning Gnus:: How to make Gnus faster.
-* FAQ - Glossary:: Terms used in the FAQ
- explained.
address@hidden menu
-
address@hidden Abstract
-
-This is the new Gnus Frequently Asked Questions list.
-If you have a Web browser, the official hypertext version is at
address@hidden://my.gnus.org/FAQ/},
-the Docbook source is available from
address@hidden://sourceforge.net/projects/gnus/, http://sourceforge.net}.
-
-Please submit features and suggestions to the
address@hidden@@my.gnus.org, FAQ discussion list}.
-The list is protected against junk mail with
address@hidden://smarden.org/qconfirm/index.html, qconfirm}. As
-a subscriber, your submissions will automatically pass. You can
-also subscribe to the list by sending a blank email to
address@hidden@@my.gnus.org, faq-discuss-subscribe@@my.gnus.org}
-and
@uref{http://mail1.kens.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-browse?command=monthbythread%26list=faq-discuss,
browse
-the archive (BROKEN)}.
-
address@hidden FAQ - Changes
address@hidden Changes
-
-
-
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-
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-Updated FAQ to reflect release of Gnus 5.10 and start of
-No Gnus development.
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-
address@hidden FAQ - Introduction
address@hidden Introduction
-
-This is the Gnus Frequently Asked Questions list.
-
-Gnus is a Usenet Newsreader and Electronic Mail User Agent implemented
-as a part of Emacs. It's been around in some form for almost a decade
-now, and has been distributed as a standard part of Emacs for much of
-that time. Gnus 5 is the latest (and greatest) incarnation. The
-original version was called GNUS, and was written by Masanobu UMEDA.
-When autumn crept up in '94, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen grew bored and
-decided to rewrite Gnus.
-
-Its biggest strength is the fact that it is extremely
-customizable. It is somewhat intimidating at first glance, but
-most of the complexity can be ignored until you're ready to take
-advantage of it. If you receive a reasonable volume of e-mail
-(you're on various mailing lists), or you would like to read
-high-volume mailing lists but cannot keep up with them, or read
-high volume newsgroups or are just bored, then Gnus is what you
-want.
-
-This FAQ was maintained by Justin Sheehy until March 2002. He
-would like to thank Steve Baur and Per Abrahamsen for doing a wonderful
-job with this FAQ before him. We would like to do the same - thanks,
-Justin!
-
-If you have a Web browser, the official hypertext version is at:
address@hidden://my.gnus.org/FAQ/}.
-This version is much nicer than the unofficial hypertext
-versions that are archived at Utrecht, Oxford, Smart Pages, Ohio
-State, and other FAQ archives. See the resources question below
-if you want information on obtaining it in another format.
-
-The information contained here was compiled with the assistance
-of the Gnus development mailing list, and any errors or
-misprints are the my.gnus.org team's fault, sorry.
-
address@hidden FAQ 1 - Installation FAQ
address@hidden Installation FAQ
-
address@hidden
-* [1.1]:: What is the latest version of Gnus?
-* [1.2]:: What's new in 5.10?
-* [1.3]:: Where and how to get Gnus?
-* [1.4]:: What to do with the tarball now?
-* [1.5]:: I sometimes read references to No Gnus and Oort Gnus, what
- are those?
-* [1.6]:: Which version of Emacs do I need?
-* [1.7]:: How do I run Gnus on both Emacs and XEmacs?
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-
address@hidden [1.1]
address@hidden Question 1.1
-
-What is the latest version of Gnus?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-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 (5.10.8) should be at
-least as stable as the latest release of the 5.8 series.
-
address@hidden [1.2]
address@hidden Question 1.2
-
-What's new in 5.10?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-First of all, you should have a look into the file
-GNUS-NEWS in the toplevel directory of the Gnus tarball,
-there the most important changes are listed. Here's a
-short list of the changes I find especially
-important/interesting:
-
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-
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-Major rewrite of the Gnus agent, Gnus agent is now
-active by default.
-
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-Many new article washing functions for dealing with
-ugly formatted articles.
-
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-Anti Spam features.
-
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-Message-utils now included in Gnus.
-
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-New format specifiers for summary lines, e.g. %B for
-a complex trn-style thread tree.
address@hidden itemize
-
address@hidden [1.3]
address@hidden Question 1.3
-
-Where and how to get Gnus?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-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).
address@hidden
-You can get the latest released version of Gnus from
address@hidden://www.gnus.org/dist/gnus.tar.gz} or via anonymous FTP from
address@hidden://ftp.gnus.org/pub/gnus/gnus.tar.gz}.
-
address@hidden [1.4]
address@hidden Question 1.4
-
-What to do with the tarball now?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Untar it via @samp{tar xvzf gnus.tar.gz} and do the common
address@hidden/configure; make; make install} circle.
-(under MS-Windows either get the Cygwin environment from
address@hidden://www.cygwin.com}
-which allows you to do what's described above or unpack the
-tarball with some packer (e.g. Winace from
address@hidden://www.winace.com})
-and use the batch-file make.bat included in the tarball to install
-Gnus.) If you don't want to (or aren't allowed to) install Gnus
-system-wide, you can install it in your home directory and add the
-following lines to your ~/.xemacs/init.el or ~/.emacs:
-
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-(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/gnus/lisp")
-(if (featurep 'xemacs)
- (add-to-list 'Info-directory-list "/path/to/gnus/texi/")
- (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "/path/to/gnus/texi/"))
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-
-Make sure that you don't have any Gnus related stuff
-before this line, on MS Windows use something like
-"C:/path/to/lisp" (yes, "/").
-
address@hidden [1.5]
address@hidden Question 1.5
-
-I sometimes read references to No Gnus and Oort Gnus,
-what are those?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Oort Gnus was the name of the development version of
-Gnus, which became Gnus 5.10 in autumn 2003. No Gnus is
-the name of the current development version which will
-once become Gnus 5.12 or Gnus 6. (If you're wondering why
-not 5.11, the odd version numbers are normally used for
-the Gnus versions bundled with Emacs)
-
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address@hidden Question 1.6
-
-Which version of Emacs do I need?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Gnus 5.10 requires an Emacs version that is greater than or equal
-to Emacs 20.7 or XEmacs 21.1.
-The development versions of Gnus (aka No Gnus) requires Emacs 21
-or XEmacs 21.4.
-
address@hidden [1.7]
address@hidden Question 1.7
-
-How do I run Gnus on both Emacs and XEmacs?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-You can't use the same copy of Gnus in both as the Lisp
-files are byte-compiled to a format which is different
-depending on which Emacs did the compilation. Get one copy
-of Gnus for Emacs and one for XEmacs.
-
address@hidden FAQ 2 - Startup / Group buffer
address@hidden Startup / Group buffer
-
address@hidden
-* [2.1]:: Every time I start Gnus I get a message "Gnus auto-save
- file exists. Do you want to read it?", what does this mean and
- how to prevent it?
-* [2.2]:: Gnus doesn't remember which groups I'm subscribed to,
- what's this?
-* [2.3]:: How to change the format of the lines in Group buffer?
-* [2.4]:: My group buffer becomes a bit crowded, is there a way to
- sort my groups into categories so I can easier browse through
- them?
-* [2.5]:: How to manually sort the groups in Group buffer? How to
- sort the groups in a topic?
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-
address@hidden [2.1]
address@hidden Question 2.1
-
-Every time I start Gnus I get a message "Gnus auto-save
-file exists. Do you want to read it?", what does this mean
-and how to prevent it?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-This message means that the last time you used Gnus, it
-wasn't properly exited and therefor couldn't write its
-informations to disk (e.g. which messages you read), you
-are now asked if you want to restore those informations
-from the auto-save file.
-
-To prevent this message make sure you exit Gnus
-via @samp{q} in group buffer instead of
-just killing Emacs.
-
address@hidden [2.2]
address@hidden Question 2.2
-
-Gnus doesn't remember which groups I'm subscribed to,
-what's this?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-You get the message described in the q/a pair above while
-starting Gnus, right? It's an other symptom for the same
-problem, so read the answer above.
-
address@hidden [2.3]
address@hidden Question 2.3
-
-How to change the format of the lines in Group buffer?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-You've got to tweak the value of the variable
-gnus-group-line-format. See the manual node "Group Line
-Specification" for information on how to do this. An
-example for this (guess from whose .gnus :-)):
-
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-(setq gnus-group-line-format "%P%M%S[%5t]%5y : %(%g%)\n")
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-
address@hidden [2.4]
address@hidden Question 2.4
-
-My group buffer becomes a bit crowded, is there a way to
-sort my groups into categories so I can easier browse
-through them?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Gnus offers the topic mode, it allows you to sort your
-groups in, well, topics, e.g. all groups dealing with
-Linux under the topic linux, all dealing with music under
-the topic music and all dealing with scottish music under
-the topic scottish which is a subtopic of music.
-
-To enter topic mode, just hit t while in Group buffer. Now
-you can use @samp{T n} to create a topic
-at point and @samp{T m} to move a group to
-a specific topic. For more commands see the manual or the
-menu. You might want to include the %P specifier at the
-beginning of your gnus-group-line-format variable to have
-the groups nicely indented.
-
address@hidden [2.5]
address@hidden Question 2.5
-
-How to manually sort the groups in Group buffer? How to
-sort the groups in a topic?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Move point over the group you want to move and
-hit @samp{C-k}, now move point to the
-place where you want the group to be and
-hit @samp{C-y}.
-
address@hidden FAQ 3 - Getting Messages
address@hidden Getting Messages
-
address@hidden
-* [3.1]:: I just installed Gnus, started it via @samp{M-x gnus}
- but it only says "nntp (news) open error", what to do?
-* [3.2]:: I'm working under Windows and have no idea what ~/.gnus.el
- means.
-* [3.3]:: My news server requires authentication, how to store user
- name and password on disk?
-* [3.4]:: Gnus seems to start up OK, but I can't find out how to
- subscribe to a group.
-* [3.5]:: Gnus doesn't show all groups / Gnus says I'm not allowed
- to post on this server as well as I am, what's that?
-* [3.6]:: I want Gnus to fetch news from several servers, is this
- possible?
-* [3.7]:: And how about local spool files?
-* [3.8]:: OK, reading news works now, but I want to be able to read
- my mail with Gnus, too. How to do it?
-* [3.9]:: And what about IMAP?
-* [3.10]:: At the office we use one of those MS Exchange servers, can
- I use Gnus to read my mail from it?
-* [3.11]:: Can I tell Gnus not to delete the mails on the server it
- retrieves via POP3?
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-
address@hidden [3.1]
address@hidden Question 3.1
-
-I just installed Gnus, started it via
address@hidden gnus}
-but it only says "nntp (news) open error", what to do?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-You've got to tell Gnus where to fetch the news from. Read
-the documentation for information on how to do this. As a
-first start, put those lines in ~/.gnus.el:
-
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-(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.yourprovider.net"))
-(setq user-mail-address "you@@yourprovider.net")
-(setq user-full-name "Your Name")
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-
address@hidden [3.2]
address@hidden Question 3.2
-
-I'm working under Windows and have no idea what ~/.gnus.el means.
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-The ~/ means the home directory where Gnus and Emacs look
-for the configuration files. However, you don't really
-need to know what this means, it suffices that Emacs knows
-what it means :-) You can type
address@hidden C-f ~/.gnus.el RET }
-(yes, with the forward slash, even on Windows), and
-Emacs will open the right file for you. (It will most
-likely be new, and thus empty.)
-However, I'd discourage you from doing so, since the
-directory Emacs chooses will most certainly not be what
-you want, so let's do it the correct way.
-The first thing you've got to do is to
-create a suitable directory (no blanks in directory name
-please) e.g. c:\myhome. Then you must set the environment
-variable HOME to this directory. To do this under Win9x
-or Me include the line
-
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-SET HOME=C:\myhome
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-
-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
address@hidden C-f ~/.gnus.el RET C-x C-s}.
-in Emacs.
-
address@hidden [3.3]
address@hidden Question 3.3
-
-My news server requires authentication, how to store
-user name and password on disk?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Create a file ~/.authinfo which includes for each server a line like this
-
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-machine news.yourprovider.net login YourUserName password YourPassword
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-.
-Make sure that the file isn't readable to others if you
-work on a OS which is capable of doing so. (Under Unix
-say
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-chmod 600 ~/.authinfo
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-
-in a shell.)
-
address@hidden [3.4]
address@hidden Question 3.4
-
-Gnus seems to start up OK, but I can't find out how to
-subscribe to a group.
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-If you know the name of the group say @samp{U
-name.of.group RET} in group buffer (use the
-tab-completion Luke). Otherwise hit ^ in group buffer,
-this brings you to the server buffer. Now place point (the
-cursor) over the server which carries the group you want,
-hit @samp{RET}, move point to the group
-you want to subscribe to and say @samp{u}
-to subscribe to it.
-
address@hidden [3.5]
address@hidden Question 3.5
-
-Gnus doesn't show all groups / Gnus says I'm not allowed to
-post on this server as well as I am, what's that?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Some providers allow restricted anonymous access and full
-access only after authorization. To make Gnus send authinfo
-to those servers append
-
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-force yes
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-
-to the line for those servers in ~/.authinfo.
-
address@hidden [3.6]
address@hidden Question 3.6
-
-I want Gnus to fetch news from several servers, is this possible?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Of course. You can specify more sources for articles in the
-variable gnus-secondary-select-methods. Add something like
-this in ~/.gnus.el:
-
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-(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
- '(nntp "news.yourSecondProvider.net"))
-(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
- '(nntp "news.yourThirdProvider.net"))
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-
address@hidden [3.7]
address@hidden Question 3.7
-
-And how about local spool files?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-No problem, this is just one more select method called
-nnspool, so you want this:
-
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-(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnspool ""))
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-
-Or this if you don't want an NNTP Server as primary news source:
-
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-(setq gnus-select-method '(nnspool ""))
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-
-Gnus will look for the spool file in /usr/spool/news, if you
-want something different, change the line above to something like this:
-
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-(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
- '(nnspool ""
- (nnspool-directory "/usr/local/myspoolddir")))
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-
-This sets the spool directory for this server only.
-You might have to specify more stuff like the program used
-to post articles, see the Gnus manual on how to do this.
-
address@hidden [3.8]
address@hidden Question 3.8
-
-OK, reading news works now, but I want to be able to read my mail
-with Gnus, too. How to do it?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-That's a bit harder since there are many possible sources
-for mail, many possible ways for storing mail and many
-different ways for sending mail. The most common cases are
-these: 1: You want to read your mail from a pop3 server and
-send them directly to a SMTP Server 2: Some program like
-fetchmail retrieves your mail and stores it on disk from
-where Gnus shall read it. Outgoing mail is sent by
-Sendmail, Postfix or some other MTA. Sometimes, you even
-need a combination of the above cases.
-
-However, the first thing to do is to tell Gnus in which way
-it should store the mail, in Gnus terminology which back end
-to use. Gnus supports many different back ends, the most
-commonly used one is nnml. It stores every mail in one file
-and is therefor quite fast. However you might prefer a one
-file per group approach if your file system has problems with
-many small files, the nnfolder back end is then probably the
-choice for you. To use nnml add the following to ~/.gnus.el:
-
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-(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml ""))
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-
-As you might have guessed, if you want nnfolder, it's
-
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-(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnfolder ""))
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-
-Now we need to tell Gnus, where to get it's mail from. If
-it's a POP3 server, then you need something like this:
-
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-(eval-after-load "mail-source"
- '(add-to-list 'mail-sources '(pop :server "pop.YourProvider.net"
- :user "yourUserName"
- :password "yourPassword")))
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-
-Make sure ~/.gnus.el isn't readable to others if you store
-your password there. If you want to read your mail from a
-traditional spool file on your local machine, it's
-
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-(eval-after-load "mail-source"
- '(add-to-list 'mail-sources '(file :path "/path/to/spool/file"))
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-
-If it's a Maildir, with one file per message as used by
-postfix, Qmail and (optionally) fetchmail it's
-
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-(eval-after-load "mail-source"
- '(add-to-list 'mail-sources '(maildir :path "/path/to/Maildir/"
- :subdirs ("cur" "new")))
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-
-And finally if you want to read your mail from several files
-in one directory, for example because procmail already split your
-mail, it's
-
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-(eval-after-load "mail-source"
- '(add-to-list 'mail-sources
- '(directory :path "/path/to/procmail-dir/"
- :suffix ".prcml")))
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-
-Where :suffix ".prcml" tells Gnus only to use files with the
-suffix .prcml.
-
-OK, now you only need to tell Gnus how to send mail. If you
-want to send mail via sendmail (or whichever MTA is playing
-the role of sendmail on your system), you don't need to do
-anything. However, if you want to send your mail to an
-SMTP Server you need the following in your ~/.gnus.el
-
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-(setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
-(setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
-(setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.yourProvider.net")
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-
address@hidden [3.9]
address@hidden Question 3.9
-
-And what about IMAP?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-There are two ways of using IMAP with Gnus. The first one is
-to use IMAP like POP3, that means Gnus fetches the mail from
-the IMAP server and stores it on disk. If you want to do
-this (you don't really want to do this) add the following to
-~/.gnus.el
-
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-(add-to-list 'mail-sources '(imap :server "mail.mycorp.com"
- :user "username"
- :pass "password"
- :stream network
- :authentication login
- :mailbox "INBOX"
- :fetchflag "\\Seen"))
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-
-You might have to tweak the values for stream and/or
-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
-follow a different approach. You've got to add the nnimap
-back end to your select method and give the information
-about the server there.
-
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-(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
- '(nnimap "Give the baby a name"
- (nnimap-address "imap.yourProvider.net")
- (nnimap-port 143)
- (nnimap-list-pattern "archive.*")))
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-
-Again, you might have to specify how to authenticate to the
-server if Gnus can't guess the correct way, see the Manual
-Node "IMAP" for detailed information.
-
address@hidden [3.10]
address@hidden Question 3.10
-
-At the office we use one of those MS Exchange servers, can I use
-Gnus to read my mail from it?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Offer your administrator a pair of new running shoes for
-activating IMAP on the server and follow the instructions
-above.
-
address@hidden [3.11]
address@hidden Question 3.11
-
-Can I tell Gnus not to delete the mails on the server it
-retrieves via POP3?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-First of all, that's not the way POP3 is intended to work,
-if you have the possibility, you should use the IMAP
-Protocol if you want your messages to stay on the
-server. Nevertheless there might be situations where you
-need the feature, but sadly Gnus itself has no predefined
-functionality to do so.
-
-However this is Gnus county so there are possibilities to
-achieve what you want. The easiest way is to get an external
-program which retrieves copies of the mail and stores them
-on disk, so Gnus can read it from there. On Unix systems you
-could use e.g. fetchmail for this, on MS Windows you can use
-Hamster, an excellent local news and mail server.
-
-The other solution would be, to replace the method Gnus
-uses to get mail from POP3 servers by one which is capable
-of leaving the mail on the server. If you use XEmacs, get
-the package mail-lib, it includes an enhanced pop3.el,
-look in the file, there's documentation on how to tell
-Gnus to use it and not to delete the retrieved mail. For
-GNU Emacs look for the file epop3.el which can do the same
-(If you know the home of this file, please send me an
-e-mail). You can also tell Gnus to use an external program
-(e.g. fetchmail) to fetch your mail, see the info node
-"Mail Source Specifiers" in the Gnus manual on how to do
-it.
-
address@hidden FAQ 4 - Reading messages
address@hidden Reading messages
-
address@hidden
-* [4.1]:: When I enter a group, all read messages are gone. How to
- view them again?
-* [4.2]:: How to tell Gnus to show an important message every time I
- enter a group, even when it's read?
-* [4.3]:: How to view the headers of a message?
-* [4.4]:: How to view the raw unformatted message?
-* [4.5]:: How can I change the headers Gnus displays by default at
- the top of the article buffer?
-* [4.6]:: I'd like Gnus NOT to render HTML-mails but show me the
- text part if it's available. How to do it?
-* [4.7]:: Can I use some other browser than w3 to render my
- HTML-mails?
-* [4.8]:: Is there anything I can do to make poorly formatted mails
- more readable?
-* [4.9]:: Is there a way to automatically ignore posts by specific
- authors or with specific words in the subject? And can I
highlight
- more interesting ones in some way?
-* [4.10]:: How can I disable threading in some (e.g. mail-) groups,
- or set other variables specific for some groups?
-* [4.11]:: Can I highlight messages written by me and follow-ups to
- those?
-* [4.12]:: The number of total messages in a group which Gnus
- displays in group buffer is by far to high, especially in mail
- groups. Is this a bug?
-* [4.13]:: I don't like the layout of summary and article buffer, how
- to change it? Perhaps even a three pane display?
-* [4.14]:: I don't like the way the Summary buffer looks, how to
- tweak it?
-* [4.15]:: How to split incoming mails in several groups?
address@hidden menu
-
address@hidden [4.1]
address@hidden Question 4.1
-
-When I enter a group, all read messages are gone. How to view them again?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-If you enter the group by saying
address@hidden
-in group buffer with point over the group, only unread and ticked messages are
loaded. Say
address@hidden RET}
-instead to load all available messages. If you want only the e.g. 300 newest
say
address@hidden 300 RET}
-
-Loading only unread messages can be annoying if you have threaded view
enabled, say
-
address@hidden
-(setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 'some)
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
-in ~/.gnus.el to load enough old articles to prevent teared threads, replace
'some with t to load
-all articles (Warning: Both settings enlarge the amount of data which is
-fetched when you enter a group and slow down the process of entering a group).
-
-If you already use Gnus 5.10, you can say
address@hidden/o N}
-In summary buffer to load the last N messages, this feature is not available
in 5.8.8
-
-If you don't want all old messages, but the parent of the message you're just
reading,
-you can say @samp{^}, if you want to retrieve the whole thread
-the message you're just reading belongs to, @samp{A T} is your friend.
-
address@hidden [4.2]
address@hidden Question 4.2
-
-How to tell Gnus to show an important message every time I
-enter a group, even when it's read?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-You can tick important messages. To do this hit
address@hidden while point is in summary buffer
-over the message. When you want to remove the mark, hit
-either @samp{d} (this deletes the tick
-mark and set's unread mark) or @samp{M c}
-(which deletes all marks for the message).
-
address@hidden [4.3]
address@hidden Question 4.3
-
-How to view the headers of a message?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Say @samp{t}
-to show all headers, one more
address@hidden
-hides them again.
-
address@hidden [4.4]
address@hidden Question 4.4
-
-How to view the raw unformatted message?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Say
address@hidden g}
-to show the raw message
address@hidden
-returns to normal view.
-
address@hidden [4.5]
address@hidden Question 4.5
-
-How can I change the headers Gnus displays by default at
-the top of the article buffer?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-The variable gnus-visible-headers controls which headers
-are shown, its value is a regular expression, header lines
-which match it are shown. So if you want author, subject,
-date, and if the header exists, Followup-To and MUA / NUA
-say this in ~/.gnus.el:
-
address@hidden
-(setq gnus-visible-headers
- '("^From" "^Subject" "^Date" "^Newsgroups" "^Followup-To"
- "^User-Agent" "^X-Newsreader" "^X-Mailer"))
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
address@hidden [4.6]
address@hidden Question 4.6
-
-I'd like Gnus NOT to render HTML-mails but show me the
-text part if it's available. How to do it?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Say
-
address@hidden
-(eval-after-load "mm-decode"
- '(progn
- (add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/html")
- (add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/richtext")))
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
-in ~/.gnus.el. If you don't want HTML rendered, even if there's no text
alternative add
-
address@hidden
-(setq mm-automatic-display (remove "text/html" mm-automatic-display))
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
-too.
-
address@hidden [4.7]
address@hidden Question 4.7
-
-Can I use some other browser than w3 to render my HTML-mails?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Only if you use Gnus 5.10 or younger. In this case you've got the
-choice between w3, w3m, links, lynx and html2text, which
-one is used can be specified in the variable
-mm-text-html-renderer, so if you want links to render your
-mail say
-
address@hidden
-(setq mm-text-html-renderer 'links)
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
address@hidden [4.8]
address@hidden Question 4.8
-
-Is there anything I can do to make poorly formatted mails
-more readable?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Gnus offers you several functions to "wash" incoming mail, you can
-find them if you browse through the menu, item
-Article->Washing. The most interesting ones are probably "Wrap
-long lines" (@samp{W w}), "Decode ROT13"
-(@samp{W r}) and "Outlook Deuglify" which repairs
-the dumb quoting used by many users of Microsoft products
-(@samp{W Y f} gives you full deuglify.
-See @samp{W Y C-h} or have a look at the menus for
-other deuglifications). Outlook deuglify is only available since
-Gnus 5.10.
-
address@hidden [4.9]
address@hidden Question 4.9
-
-Is there a way to automatically ignore posts by specific
-authors or with specific words in the subject? And can I
-highlight more interesting ones in some way?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-You want Scoring. Scoring means, that you define rules
-which assign each message an integer value. Depending on
-the value the message is highlighted in summary buffer (if
-it's high, say +2000) or automatically marked read (if the
-value is low, say -800) or some other action happens.
-
-There are basically three ways of setting up rules which assign
-the scoring-value to messages. The first and easiest way is to set
-up rules based on the article you are just reading. Say you're
-reading a message by a guy who always writes nonsense and you want
-to ignore his messages in the future. Hit
address@hidden, to set up a rule which lowers the score.
-Now Gnus asks you which the criteria for lowering the Score shall
-be. Hit @samp{?} twice to see all possibilities,
-we want @samp{a} which means the author (the from
-header). Now Gnus wants to know which kind of matching we want.
-Hit either @samp{e} for an exact match or
address@hidden for substring-match and delete afterwards
-everything but the name to score down all authors with the given
-name no matter which email address is used. Now you need to tell
-Gnus when to apply the rule and how long it should last, hit e.g.
address@hidden to apply the rule now and let it last
-forever. If you want to raise the score instead of lowering it say
address@hidden instead of @samp{L}.
-
-You can also set up rules by hand. To do this say @samp{V
-f} in summary buffer. Then you are asked for the name
-of the score file, it's name.of.group.SCORE for rules valid in
-only one group or all.Score for rules valid in all groups. See the
-Gnus manual for the exact syntax, basically it's one big list
-whose elements are lists again. the first element of those lists
-is the header to score on, then one more list with what to match,
-which score to assign, when to expire the rule and how to do the
-matching. If you find me very interesting, you could e.g. add the
-following to your all.Score:
-
address@hidden
-(("references" ("hschmi22.userfqdn.rz-online.de" 500 nil s))
- ("message-id" ("hschmi22.userfqdn.rz-online.de" 999 nil s)))
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address@hidden
-
-This would add 999 to the score of messages written by me
-and 500 to the score of messages which are a (possibly
-indirect) answer to a message written by me. Of course
-nobody with a sane mind would do this :-)
-
-The third alternative is adaptive scoring. This means Gnus
-watches you and tries to find out what you find
-interesting and what annoying and sets up rules
-which reflect this. Adaptive scoring can be a huge help
-when reading high traffic groups. If you want to activate
-adaptive scoring say
-
address@hidden
-(setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring t)
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
-in ~/.gnus.el.
-
address@hidden [4.10]
address@hidden Question 4.10
-
-How can I disable threading in some (e.g. mail-) groups, or
-set other variables specific for some groups?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-While in group buffer move point over the group and hit
address@hidden c}, this opens a buffer where you
-can set options for the group. At the bottom of the buffer
-you'll find an item that allows you to set variables
-locally for the group. To disable threading enter
-gnus-show-threads as name of variable and nil as
-value. Hit button done at the top of the buffer when
-you're ready.
-
address@hidden [4.11]
address@hidden Question 4.11
-
-Can I highlight messages written by me and follow-ups to
-those?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Stop those "Can I ..." questions, the answer is always yes
-in Gnus Country :-). It's a three step process: First we
-make faces (specifications of how summary-line shall look
-like) for those postings, then we'll give them some
-special score and finally we'll tell Gnus to use the new
-faces. You can find detailed instructions on how to do it on
address@hidden://my.gnus.org/node/view/224, my.gnus.org}
-
address@hidden [4.12]
address@hidden Question 4.12
-
-The number of total messages in a group which Gnus
-displays in group buffer is by far to high, especially in
-mail groups. Is this a bug?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-No, that's a matter of design of Gnus, fixing this would
-mean reimplementation of major parts of Gnus'
-back ends. Gnus thinks "highest-article-number -
-lowest-article-number = total-number-of-articles". This
-works OK for Usenet groups, but if you delete and move
-many messages in mail groups, this fails. To cure the
-symptom, enter the group via @samp{C-u RET}
-(this makes Gnus get all messages), then
-hit @samp{M P b} to mark all messages and
-then say @samp{B m name.of.group} to move
-all messages to the group they have been in before, they
-get new message numbers in this process and the count is
-right again (until you delete and move your mail to other
-groups again).
-
address@hidden [4.13]
address@hidden Question 4.13
-
-I don't like the layout of summary and article buffer, how
-to change it? Perhaps even a three pane display?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-You can control the windows configuration by calling the
-function gnus-add-configuration. The syntax is a bit
-complicated but explained very well in the manual node
-"Window Layout". Some popular examples:
-
-Instead 25% summary 75% article buffer 35% summary and 65%
-article (the 1.0 for article means "take the remaining
-space"):
-
address@hidden
-(gnus-add-configuration
- '(article (vertical 1.0 (summary .35 point) (article 1.0))))
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
-A three pane layout, Group buffer on the left, summary
-buffer top-right, article buffer bottom-right:
-
address@hidden
-(gnus-add-configuration
- '(article
- (horizontal 1.0
- (vertical 25
- (group 1.0))
- (vertical 1.0
- (summary 0.25 point)
- (article 1.0)))))
-(gnus-add-configuration
- '(summary
- (horizontal 1.0
- (vertical 25
- (group 1.0))
- (vertical 1.0
- (summary 1.0 point)))))
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
address@hidden [4.14]
address@hidden Question 4.14
-
-I don't like the way the Summary buffer looks, how to tweak it?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-You've got to play around with the variable
-gnus-summary-line-format. It's value is a string of
-symbols which stand for things like author, date, subject
-etc. A list of the available specifiers can be found in the
-manual node "Summary Buffer Lines" and the often forgotten
-node "Formatting Variables" and it's sub-nodes. There
-you'll find useful things like positioning the cursor and
-tabulators which allow you a summary in table form, but
-sadly hard tabulators are broken in 5.8.8.
-
-Since 5.10, Gnus offers you some very nice new specifiers,
-e.g. %B which draws a thread-tree and %&user-date which
-gives you a date where the details are dependent of the
-articles age. Here's an example which uses both:
-
address@hidden
-(setq gnus-summary-line-format ":%U%R %B %s %-60=|%4L |%-20,20f |%&user-date;
\n")
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
-resulting in:
-
address@hidden
-:O Re: [Richard Stallman] rfc2047.el | 13 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt
|Sat 23:06
-:O Re: Revival of the ding-patches list | 13 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt
|Sat 23:12
-:R > Re: Find correct list of articles for a gro| 25 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt
|Sat 23:16
-:O \-> ... | 21 |Kai Grossjohann
| 0:01
-:R > Re: Cry for help: deuglify.el - moving stuf| 28 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt
|Sat 23:34
-:O \-> ... | 115 |Raymond Scholz
| 1:24
-:O \-> ... | 19 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt
|15:33
-:O Slow mailing list | 13 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt
|Sat 23:49
-:O Re: `@@' mark not documented | 13 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt
|Sat 23:50
-:R > Re: Gnus still doesn't count messages prope| 23 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt
|Sat 23:57
-:O \-> ... | 18 |Kai Grossjohann
| 0:35
-:O \-> ... | 13 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt
| 0:56
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
address@hidden [4.15]
address@hidden Question 4.15
-
-How to split incoming mails in several groups?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Gnus offers two possibilities for splitting mail, the easy
-nnmail-split-methods and the more powerful Fancy Mail
-Splitting. I'll only talk about the first one, refer to
-the manual, node "Fancy Mail Splitting" for the latter.
-
-The value of nnmail-split-methods is a list, each element
-is a list which stands for a splitting rule. Each rule has
-the form "group where matching articles should go to",
-"regular expression which has to be matched", the first
-rule which matches wins. The last rule must always be a
-general rule (regular expression .*) which denotes where
-articles should go which don't match any other rule. If
-the folder doesn't exist yet, it will be created as soon
-as an article lands there. By default the mail will be
-send to all groups whose rules match. If you
-don't want that (you probably don't want), say
-
address@hidden
-(setq nnmail-crosspost nil)
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
-in ~/.gnus.el.
-
-An example might be better than thousand words, so here's
-my nnmail-split-methods. Note that I send duplicates in a
-special group and that the default group is spam, since I
-filter all mails out which are from some list I'm
-subscribed to or which are addressed directly to me
-before. Those rules kill about 80% of the Spam which
-reaches me (Email addresses are changed to prevent spammers
-from using them):
-
address@hidden
-(setq nnmail-split-methods
- '(("duplicates" "^Gnus-Warning:.*duplicate")
- ("XEmacs-NT" "^\\(To:\\|CC:\\).*localpart@@xemacs.invalid.*")
- ("Gnus-Tut" "^\\(To:\\|CC:\\).*localpart@@socha.invalid.*")
- ("tcsh" "^\\(To:\\|CC:\\).*localpart@@mx.gw.invalid.*")
- ("BAfH" "^\\(To:\\|CC:\\).*localpart@@.*uni-muenchen.invalid.*")
- ("Hamster-src"
"^\\(CC:\\|To:\\).*hamster-sourcen@@yahoogroups.\\(de\\|com\\).*")
- ("Tagesschau" "^From: tagesschau <localpart@@www.tagesschau.invalid>$")
- ("Replies" "^\\(CC:\\|To:\\).*localpart@@Frank-Schmitt.invalid.*")
- ("EK"
"^From:.*\\(localpart@@privateprovider.invalid\\|localpart@@workplace.invalid\\).*")
- ("Spam"
"^Content-Type:.*\\(ks_c_5601-1987\\|EUC-KR\\|big5\\|iso-2022-jp\\).*")
- ("Spam" "^Subject:.*\\(This really
work\\|XINGA\\|ADV:\\|XXX\\|adult\\|sex\\).*")
- ("Spam"
"^Subject:.*\\(\=\?ks_c_5601-1987\?\\|\=\?euc-kr\?\\|\=\?big5\?\\).*")
- ("Spam" "^X-Mailer:\\(.*BulkMailer.*\\|.*MIME::Lite.*\\|\\)")
- ("Spam" "^X-Mailer:\\(.*CyberCreek
Avalanche\\|.*http\:\/\/GetResponse\.com\\)")
- ("Spam"
"^From:.*\\(verizon\.net\\|prontomail\.com\\|money\\|ConsumerDirect\\).*")
- ("Spam" "^Delivered-To: GMX delivery to spamtrap@@gmx.invalid$")
- ("Spam" "^Received: from link2buy.com")
- ("Spam" "^CC: .*azzrael@@t-online.invalid")
- ("Spam" "^X-Mailer-Version: 1.50 BETA")
- ("Uni" "^\\(CC:\\|To:\\).*localpart@@uni-koblenz.invalid.*")
- ("Inbox" "^\\(CC:\\|To:\\).*\\(my\
name\\|address@@one.invalid\\|adress@@two.invalid\\)")
- ("Spam" "")))
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
address@hidden FAQ 5 - Composing messages
address@hidden Composing messages
-
address@hidden
-* [5.1]:: What are the basic commands I need to know for sending
- mail and postings?
-* [5.2]:: How to enable automatic word-wrap when composing messages?
-* [5.3]:: How to set stuff like From, Organization, Reply-To,
- signature...?
-* [5.4]:: Can I set things like From, Signature etc group based on
- the group I post too?
-* [5.5]:: Is there a spell-checker? Perhaps even on-the-fly
- spell-checking?
-* [5.6]:: Can I set the dictionary based on the group I'm posting
- to?
-* [5.7]:: Is there some kind of address-book, so I needn't remember
- all those email addresses?
-* [5.8]:: Sometimes I see little images at the top of article
- buffer. What's that and how can I send one with my postings, too?
-* [5.9]:: Sometimes I accidentally hit r instead of f in newsgroups.
- Can Gnus warn me, when I'm replying by mail in newsgroups?
-* [5.10]:: How to tell Gnus not to generate a sender header?
-* [5.11]:: I want Gnus to locally store copies of my send mail and
- news, how to do it?
-* [5.12]:: People tell me my Message-IDs are not correct, why aren't
- they and how to fix it?
address@hidden menu
-
address@hidden [5.1]
address@hidden Question 5.1
-
-What are the basic commands I need to know for sending mail and postings?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-To start composing a new mail hit @samp{m}
-either in Group or Summary buffer, for a posting, it's
-either @samp{a} in Group buffer and
-filling the Newsgroups header manually
-or @samp{a} in the Summary buffer of the
-group where the posting shall be send to. Replying by mail
-is
address@hidden if you don't want to cite the
-author, or import the cited text manually and
address@hidden to cite the text of the original
-message. For a follow up to a newsgroup, it's
address@hidden and @samp{F}
-(analogously to @samp{r} and
address@hidden).
-
-Enter new headers above the line saying "--text follows
-this line--", enter the text below the line. When ready
-hit @samp{C-c C-c}, to send the message,
-if you want to finish it later hit @samp{C-c
-C-d} to save it in the drafts group, where you
-can start editing it again by saying @samp{D
-e}.
-
address@hidden [5.2]
address@hidden Question 5.2
-
-How to enable automatic word-wrap when composing messages?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Say
-
address@hidden
-(add-hook 'message-mode-hook
- (lambda ()
- (setq fill-column 72)
- (turn-on-auto-fill)))
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
-in ~/.gnus.el. You can reformat a paragraph by hitting
address@hidden (as usual)
-
address@hidden [5.3]
address@hidden Question 5.3
-
-How to set stuff like From, Organization, Reply-To, signature...?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-There are other ways, but you should use posting styles
-for this. (See below why).
-This example should make the syntax clear:
-
address@hidden
-(setq gnus-posting-styles
- '((".*"
- (name "Frank Schmitt")
- (address "me@@there.invalid")
- (organization "Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi")
- (signature-file "~/.signature")
- ("X-SampleHeader" "foobar")
- (eval (setq some-variable "Foo bar")))))
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
-The ".*" means that this settings are the default ones
-(see below), valid values for the first element of the
-following lists are signature, signature-file,
-organization, address, name or body. The attribute name
-can also be a string. In that case, this will be used as
-a header name, and the value will be inserted in the
-headers of the article; if the value is `nil', the header
-name will be removed. You can also say (eval (foo bar)),
-then the function foo will be evaluated with argument bar
-and the result will be thrown away.
-
address@hidden [5.4]
address@hidden Question 5.4
-
-Can I set things like From, Signature etc group based on the group I post too?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-That's the strength of posting styles. Before, we used ".*"
-to set the default for all groups. You can use a regexp
-like "^gmane" and the following settings are only applied
-to postings you send to the gmane hierarchy, use
-".*binaries" instead and they will be applied to postings
-send to groups containing the string binaries in their
-name etc.
-
-You can instead of specifying a regexp specify a function
-which is evaluated, only if it returns true, the
-corresponding settings take effect. Two interesting
-candidates for this are message-news-p which returns t if
-the current Group is a newsgroup and the corresponding
-message-mail-p.
-
-Note that all forms that match are applied, that means in
-the example below, when I post to
-gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general, the settings under
-".*" are applied and the settings under message-news-p and
-those under "^gmane" and those under
-"^gmane\\.mail\\.spam\\.spamassassin\\.general$". Because
-of this put general settings at the top and specific ones
-at the bottom.
-
address@hidden
-(setq gnus-posting-styles
- '((".*" ;;default
- (name "Frank Schmitt")
- (organization "Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi")
- (signature-file "~/.signature"))
- ((message-news-p) ;;Usenet news?
- (address "mySpamTrap@@Frank-Schmitt.invalid")
- (reply-to "hereRealRepliesOnlyPlease@@Frank-Schmitt.invalid"))
- ((message-mail-p) ;;mail?
- (address "usedForMails@@Frank-Schmitt.invalid"))
- ("^gmane" ;;this is mail, too in fact
- (address "usedForMails@@Frank-Schmitt.invalid")
- (reply-to nil))
- ("^gmane\\.mail\\.spam\\.spamassassin\\.general$"
- (eval (set (make-local-variable 'message-sendmail-envelope-from)
- "Azzrael@@rz-online.de")))))
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
address@hidden [5.5]
address@hidden Question 5.5
-
-Is there a spell-checker? Perhaps even on-the-fly spell-checking?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-You can use ispell.el to spell-check stuff in Emacs. So the
-first thing to do is to make sure that you've got either
address@hidden://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/fmg-members/geoff/ispell.html, ispell}
-or @uref{http://aspell.sourceforge.net/, aspell}
-installed and in your Path. Then you need
address@hidden://www.kdstevens.com/~stevens/ispell-page.html, ispell.el}
-and for on-the-fly spell-checking
address@hidden://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/personnel/Manuel.Serrano/flyspell/flyspell.html,
flyspell.el}.
-Ispell.el is shipped with Emacs and available through the XEmacs package
system,
-flyspell.el is shipped with Emacs and part of XEmacs text-modes package which
is
-available through the package system, so there should be no need to install
them
-manually.
-
-Ispell.el assumes you use ispell, if you choose aspell say
-
address@hidden
-(setq ispell-program-name "aspell")
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address@hidden
-
-in your Emacs configuration file.
-
-If you want your outgoing messages to be spell-checked, say
-
address@hidden
-(add-hook 'message-send-hook 'ispell-message)
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address@hidden
-
-In your ~/.gnus.el, if you prefer on-the-fly spell-checking say
-
address@hidden
-(add-hook 'message-mode-hook (lambda () (flyspell-mode 1)))
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address@hidden
-
address@hidden [5.6]
address@hidden Question 5.6
-
-Can I set the dictionary based on the group I'm posting to?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Yes, say something like
-
address@hidden
-(add-hook 'gnus-select-group-hook
- (lambda ()
- (cond
- ((string-match
- "^de\\." (gnus-group-real-name gnus-newsgroup-name))
- (ispell-change-dictionary "deutsch8"))
- (t
- (ispell-change-dictionary "english")))))
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address@hidden
-
-in ~/.gnus.el. Change "^de\\." and "deutsch8" to something
-that suits your needs.
-
address@hidden [5.7]
address@hidden Question 5.7
-
-Is there some kind of address-book, so I needn't remember
-all those email addresses?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-There's an very basic solution for this, mail aliases.
-You can store your mail addresses in a ~/.mailrc file using a simple
-alias syntax:
-
address@hidden
-alias al "Al <al@@english-heritage.invalid>"
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address@hidden
-
-Then typing your alias (followed by a space or punctuation
-character) on a To: or Cc: line in the message buffer will
-cause Gnus to insert the full address for you. See the
-node "Mail Aliases" in Message (not Gnus) manual for
-details.
-
-However, what you really want is the Insidious Big Brother
-Database bbdb. Get it through the XEmacs package system or from
address@hidden://bbdb.sourceforge.net/, bbdb's homepage}.
-Now place the following in ~/.gnus.el, to activate bbdb for Gnus:
-
address@hidden
-(require 'bbdb)
-(bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message)
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address@hidden
-
-Now you probably want some general bbdb configuration,
-place them in ~/.emacs:
-
address@hidden
-(require 'bbdb)
-;;If you don't live in Northern America, you should disable the
-;;syntax check for telephone numbers by saying
-(setq bbdb-north-american-phone-numbers-p nil)
-;;Tell bbdb about your email address:
-(setq bbdb-user-mail-names
- (regexp-opt '("Your.Email@@here.invalid"
- "Your.other@@mail.there.invalid")))
-;;cycling while completing email addresses
-(setq bbdb-complete-name-allow-cycling t)
-;;No popup-buffers
-(setq bbdb-use-pop-up nil)
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address@hidden
-
-Now you should be ready to go. Say @samp{M-x bbdb RET
-RET} to open a bbdb buffer showing all
-entries. Say @samp{c} to create a new
-entry, @samp{b} to search your BBDB and
address@hidden to add a new field to an
-entry. If you want to add a sender to the BBDB you can
-also just hit `:' on the posting in the summary buffer and
-you are done. When you now compose a new mail,
-hit @samp{TAB} to cycle through know
-recipients.
-
address@hidden [5.8]
address@hidden Question 5.8
-
-Sometimes I see little images at the top of article
-buffer. What's that and how can I send one with my
-postings, too?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Those images are called X-Faces. They are 48*48 pixel b/w
-pictures, encoded in a header line. If you want to include
-one in your posts, you've got to convert some image to a
-X-Face. So fire up some image manipulation program (say
-Gimp), open the image you want to include, cut out the
-relevant part, reduce color depth to 1 bit, resize to
-48*48 and save as bitmap. Now you should get the compface
-package from
address@hidden://ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/faces/, this site}.
-and create the actual X-face by saying
-
address@hidden
-cat file.xbm | xbm2ikon | compface > file.face
-cat file.face | sed 's/\\/\\\\/g;s/\"/\\\"/g;' > file.face.quoted
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address@hidden
-
-If you can't use compface, there's an online X-face converter at
address@hidden://www.dairiki.org/xface/}.
-If you use MS Windows, you could also use the WinFace program from
address@hidden://www.xs4all.nl/~walterln/winface/}.
-Now you only have to tell Gnus to include the X-face in your postings by saying
-
address@hidden
-(setq message-default-headers
- (with-temp-buffer
- (insert "X-Face: ")
- (insert-file-contents "~/.xface")
- (buffer-string)))
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address@hidden
-
-in ~/.gnus.el. If you use Gnus 5.10, you can simply add an entry
-
address@hidden
-(x-face-file "~/.xface")
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address@hidden
-
-to gnus-posting-styles.
-
address@hidden [5.9]
address@hidden Question 5.9
-
-Sometimes I accidentally hit r instead of f in
-newsgroups. Can Gnus warn me, when I'm replying by mail in
-newsgroups?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Put this in ~/.gnus.el:
-
address@hidden
-(setq gnus-confirm-mail-reply-to-news t)
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address@hidden
-
-if you already use Gnus 5.10, if you still use 5.8.8 or
-5.9 try this instead:
-
address@hidden
-(eval-after-load "gnus-msg"
- '(unless (boundp 'gnus-confirm-mail-reply-to-news)
- (defadvice gnus-summary-reply (around reply-in-news activate)
- "Request confirmation when replying to news."
- (interactive)
- (when (or (not (gnus-news-group-p gnus-newsgroup-name))
- (y-or-n-p "Really reply by mail to article author? "))
- ad-do-it))))
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address@hidden
-
address@hidden [5.10]
address@hidden Question 5.10
-
-How to tell Gnus not to generate a sender header?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Since 5.10 Gnus doesn't generate a sender header by
-default. For older Gnus' try this in ~/.gnus.el:
-
address@hidden
-(eval-after-load "message"
- '(add-to-list 'message-syntax-checks '(sender . disabled)))
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address@hidden
-
address@hidden [5.11]
address@hidden Question 5.11
-
-I want Gnus to locally store copies of my send mail and
-news, how to do it?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-You must set the variable gnus-message-archive-group to do
-this. You can set it to a string giving the name of the
-group where the copies shall go or like in the example
-below use a function which is evaluated and which returns
-the group to use.
-
address@hidden
-(setq gnus-message-archive-group
- '((if (message-news-p)
- "nnml:Send-News"
- "nnml:Send-Mail")))
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address@hidden
-
address@hidden [5.12]
address@hidden Question 5.12
-
-People tell me my Message-IDs are not correct, why
-aren't they and how to fix it?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-The message-ID is an unique identifier for messages you
-send. To make it unique, Gnus need to know which machine
-name to put after the "@@". If the name of the machine
-where Gnus is running isn't suitable (it probably isn't
-at most private machines) you can tell Gnus what to use
-by saying:
-
address@hidden
-(setq message-user-fqdn "yourmachine.yourdomain.tld")
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address@hidden
-
-in ~/.gnus.el. If you use Gnus 5.9 or earlier, you can use this
-instead (works for newer versions a well):
-
address@hidden
-(eval-after-load "message"
- '(let ((fqdn "yourmachine.yourdomain.tld"));; <-- Edit this!
- (if (boundp 'message-user-fqdn)
- (setq message-user-fqdn fqdn)
- (gnus-message 1 "Redefining `message-make-fqdn'.")
- (defun message-make-fqdn ()
- "Return user's fully qualified domain name."
- fqdn))))
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address@hidden
-
-If you have no idea what to insert for
-"yourmachine.yourdomain.tld", you've got several
-choices. You can either ask your provider if he allows
-you to use something like
-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.
address@hidden://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).
-
-Finally you can tell Gnus not to generate a Message-ID
-for News at all (and letting the server do the job) by saying
-
address@hidden
-(setq message-required-news-headers
- (remove' Message-ID message-required-news-headers))
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address@hidden
-
-you can also tell Gnus not to generate Message-IDs for mail by saying
-
address@hidden
-(setq message-required-mail-headers
- (remove' Message-ID message-required-mail-headers))
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address@hidden
-
-, however some mail servers don't generate proper
-Message-IDs, too, so test if your Mail Server behaves
-correctly by sending yourself a Mail and looking at the Message-ID.
-
address@hidden FAQ 6 - Old messages
address@hidden Old messages
-
address@hidden
-* [6.1]:: How to import my old mail into Gnus?
-* [6.2]:: How to archive interesting messages?
-* [6.3]:: How to search for a specific message?
-* [6.4]:: How to get rid of old unwanted mail?
-* [6.5]:: I want that all read messages are expired (at least in some
- groups). How to do it?
-* [6.6]:: I don't want expiration to delete my mails but to move them
- to another group.
address@hidden menu
-
address@hidden [6.1]
address@hidden Question 6.1
-
-How to import my old mail into Gnus?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-The easiest way is to tell your old mail program to
-export the messages in mbox format. Most Unix mailers
-are able to do this, if you come from the MS Windows
-world, you may find tools at
address@hidden://mbx2mbox.sourceforge.net/}.
-
-Now you've got to import this mbox file into Gnus. To do
-this, create a nndoc group based on the mbox file by
-saying @samp{G f /path/file.mbox RET} in
-Group buffer. You now have read-only access to your
-mail. If you want to import the messages to your normal
-Gnus mail groups hierarchy, enter the nndoc group you've
-just created by saying @samp{C-u RET}
-(thus making sure all messages are retrieved), mark all
-messages by saying @samp{M P b} and
-either copy them to the desired group by saying
address@hidden c name.of.group RET} or send them
-through nnmail-split-methods (respool them) by saying
address@hidden r}.
-
address@hidden [6.2]
address@hidden Question 6.2
-
-How to archive interesting messages?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-If you stumble across an interesting message, say in
-gnu.emacs.gnus and want to archive it there are several
-solutions. The first and easiest is to save it to a file
-by saying @samp{O f}. However, wouldn't
-it be much more convenient to have more direct access to
-the archived message from Gnus? If you say yes, put this
-snippet by Frank Haun <pille3003@@fhaun.de> in
-~/.gnus.el:
-
address@hidden
-(defun my-archive-article (&optional n)
- "Copies one or more article(s) to a corresponding `nnml:' group, e.g.
-`gnus.ding' goes to `nnml:1.gnus.ding'. And `nnml:List-gnus.ding' goes
-to `nnml:1.List-gnus-ding'.
-
-Use process marks or mark a region in the summary buffer to archive
-more then one article."
- (interactive "P")
- (let ((archive-name
- (format
- "nnml:1.%s"
- (if (featurep 'xemacs)
- (replace-in-string gnus-newsgroup-name "^.*:" "")
- (replace-regexp-in-string "^.*:" "" gnus-newsgroup-name)))))
- (gnus-summary-copy-article n archive-name)))
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
-You can now say @samp{M-x
-my-archive-article} in summary buffer to
-archive the article under the cursor in a nnml
-group. (Change nnml to your preferred back end)
-
-Of course you can also make sure the cache is enabled by saying
-
address@hidden
-(setq gnus-use-cache t)
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address@hidden
-
-then you only have to set either the tick or the dormant
-mark for articles you want to keep, setting the read
-mark will remove them from cache.
-
address@hidden [6.3]
address@hidden Question 6.3
-
-How to search for a specific message?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-There are several ways for this, too. For a posting from
-a Usenet group the easiest solution is probably to ask
address@hidden://groups.google.com, groups.google.com},
-if you found the posting there, tell Google to display
-the raw message, look for the message-id, and say
address@hidden the@@message.id RET} in a
-summary buffer.
-Since Gnus 5.10 there's also a Gnus interface for
-groups.google.com which you can call with
address@hidden W}) in group buffer.
-
-Another idea which works for both mail and news groups
-is to enter the group where the message you are
-searching is and use the standard Emacs search
address@hidden, it's smart enough to look at
-articles in collapsed threads, too. If you want to
-search bodies, too try @samp{M-s}
-instead. Further on there are the
-gnus-summary-limit-to-foo functions, which can help you,
-too.
-
-Of course you can also use grep to search through your
-local mail, but this is both slow for big archives and
-inconvenient since you are not displaying the found mail
-in Gnus. Here comes nnir into action. Nnir is a front end
-to search engines like swish-e or swish++ and
-others. You index your mail with one of those search
-engines and with the help of nnir you can search trough
-the indexed mail and generate a temporary group with all
-messages which met your search criteria. If this sound
-cool to you get nnir.el from
address@hidden://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/src/emacs/}
-or @uref{ftp://ftp.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/pub/src/emacs/}.
-Instructions on how to use it are at the top of the file.
-
address@hidden [6.4]
address@hidden Question 6.4
-
-How to get rid of old unwanted mail?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-You can of course just mark the mail you don't need
-anymore by saying @samp{#} with point
-over the mail and then say @samp{B DEL}
-to get rid of them forever. You could also instead of
-actually deleting them, send them to a junk-group by
-saying @samp{B m nnml:trash-bin} which
-you clear from time to time, but both are not the intended
-way in Gnus.
-
-In Gnus, we let mail expire like news expires on a news
-server. That means you tell Gnus the message is
-expirable (you tell Gnus "I don't need this mail
-anymore") by saying @samp{E} with point
-over the mail in summary buffer. Now when you leave the
-group, Gnus looks at all messages which you marked as
-expirable before and if they are old enough (default is
-older than a week) they are deleted.
-
address@hidden [6.5]
address@hidden Question 6.5
-
-I want that all read messages are expired (at least in
-some groups). How to do it?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-If you want all read messages to be expired (e.g. in
-mailing lists where there's an online archive), you've
-got two choices: auto-expire and
-total-expire. Auto-expire means, that every article
-which has no marks set and is selected for reading is
-marked as expirable, Gnus hits @samp{E}
-for you every time you read a message. Total-expire
-follows a slightly different approach, here all article
-where the read mark is set are expirable.
-
-To activate auto-expire, include auto-expire in the
-Group parameters for the group. (Hit @samp{G
-c} in summary buffer with point over the
-group to change group parameters). For total-expire add
-total-expire to the group-parameters.
-
-Which method you choose is merely a matter of taste:
-Auto-expire is faster, but it doesn't play together with
-Adaptive Scoring, so if you want to use this feature,
-you should use total-expire.
-
-If you want a message to be excluded from expiration in
-a group where total or auto expire is active, set either
-tick (hit @samp{u}) or dormant mark (hit
address@hidden), when you use auto-expire, you
-can also set the read mark (hit
address@hidden).
-
address@hidden [6.6]
address@hidden Question 6.6
-
-I don't want expiration to delete my mails but to move them
-to another group.
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Say something like this in ~/.gnus.el:
-
address@hidden
-(setq nnmail-expiry-target "nnml:expired")
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
-(If you want to change the value of nnmail-expiry-target
-on a per group basis see the question "How can I disable
-threading in some (e.g. mail-) groups, or set other
-variables specific for some groups?")
-
address@hidden FAQ 7 - Gnus in a dial-up environment
address@hidden Gnus in a dial-up environment
-
address@hidden
-* [7.1]:: I don't have a permanent connection to the net, how can I
- minimize the time I've got to be connected?
-* [7.2]:: So what was this thing about the Agent?
-* [7.3]:: I want to store article bodies on disk, too. How to do it?
-* [7.4]:: How to tell Gnus not to try to send mails / postings while
- I'm offline?
address@hidden menu
-
address@hidden [7.1]
address@hidden Question 7.1
-
-I don't have a permanent connection to the net, how can
-I minimize the time I've got to be connected?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-You've got basically two options: Either you use the
-Gnus Agent (see below) for this, or you can install
-programs which fetch your news and mail to your local
-disk and Gnus reads the stuff from your local
-machine.
-
-If you want to follow the second approach, you need a
-program which fetches news and offers them to Gnus, a
-program which does the same for mail and a program which
-receives the mail you write from Gnus and sends them
-when you're online.
-
-Let's talk about Unix systems first: For the news part,
-the easiest solution is a small nntp server like
address@hidden://www.leafnode.org/, Leafnode} or
address@hidden://infa.abo.fi/~patrik/sn/, sn},
-of course you can also install a full featured news
-server like
address@hidden://www.isc.org/products/INN/, inn}.
-Then you want to fetch your Mail, popular choices
-are @uref{http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/, fetchmail}
-and @uref{http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-3.0/, getmail}.
-You should tell those to write the mail to your disk and
-Gnus to read it from there. Last but not least the mail
-sending part: This can be done with every MTA like
address@hidden://www.sendmail.org/, sendmail},
address@hidden://www.qmail.org/, postfix},
address@hidden://www.exim.org/, exim} or
address@hidden://www.qmail.org/, qmail}.
-
-On windows boxes I'd vote for
address@hidden://www.tglsoft.de/, Hamster},
-it's a small freeware, open-source program which fetches
-your mail and news from remote servers and offers them
-to Gnus (or any other mail and/or news reader) via nntp
-respectively POP3 or IMAP. It also includes a smtp
-server for receiving mails from Gnus.
-
address@hidden [7.2]
address@hidden Question 7.2
-
-So what was this thing about the Agent?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-The Gnus agent is part of Gnus, it allows you to fetch
-mail and news and store them on disk for reading them
-later when you're offline. It kind of mimics offline
-newsreaders like e.g. Forte Agent. If you want to use
-the Agent place the following in ~/.gnus.el if you are
-still using 5.8.8 or 5.9 (it's the default since 5.10):
-
address@hidden
-(setq gnus-agent t)
address@hidden example
address@hidden
-
-Now you've got to select the servers whose groups can be
-stored locally. To do this, open the server buffer
-(that is press @samp{^} while in the
-group buffer). Now select a server by moving point to
-the line naming that server. Finally, agentize the
-server by typing @samp{J a}. If you
-make a mistake, or change your mind, you can undo this
-action by typing @samp{J r}. When
-you're done, type 'q' to return to the group buffer.
-Now the next time you enter a group on a agentized
-server, the headers will be stored on disk and read from
-there the next time you enter the group.
-
address@hidden [7.3]
address@hidden Question 7.3
-
-I want to store article bodies on disk, too. How to do it?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-You can tell the agent to automatically fetch the bodies
-of articles which fulfill certain predicates, this is
-done in a special buffer which can be reached by
-saying @samp{J c} in group
-buffer. Please refer to the documentation for
-information which predicates are possible and how
-exactly to do it.
-
-Further on you can tell the agent manually which
-articles to store on disk. There are two ways to do
-this: Number one: In the summary buffer, process mark a
-set of articles that shall be stored in the agent by
-saying @samp{#} with point over the
-article and then type @samp{J s}. The
-other possibility is to set, again in the summary
-buffer, downloadable (%) marks for the articles you
-want by typing @samp{@@} with point over
-the article and then typing @samp{J u}.
-What's the difference? Well, process marks are erased as
-soon as you exit the summary buffer while downloadable
-marks are permanent. You can actually set downloadable
-marks in several groups then use fetch session ('J s' in
-the GROUP buffer) to fetch all of those articles. The
-only downside is that fetch session also fetches all of
-the headers for every selected group on an agentized
-server. Depending on the volume of headers, the initial
-fetch session could take hours.
-
address@hidden [7.4]
address@hidden Question 7.4
-
-How to tell Gnus not to try to send mails / postings
-while I'm offline?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-All you've got to do is to tell Gnus when you are online
-(plugged) and when you are offline (unplugged), the rest
-works automatically. You can toggle plugged/unplugged
-state by saying @samp{J j} in group
-buffer. To start Gnus unplugged say @samp{M-x
-gnus-unplugged} instead of
address@hidden gnus}. Note that for this to
-work, the agent must be active.
-
address@hidden FAQ 8 - Getting help
address@hidden Getting help
-
address@hidden
-* [8.1]:: How to find information and help inside Emacs?
-* [8.2]:: I can't find anything in the Gnus manual about X (e.g.
- attachments, PGP, MIME...), is it not documented?
-* [8.3]:: Which websites should I know?
-* [8.4]:: Which mailing lists and newsgroups are there?
-* [8.5]:: Where to report bugs?
-* [8.6]:: I need real-time help, where to find it?
address@hidden menu
-
address@hidden [8.1]
address@hidden Question 8.1
-
-How to find information and help inside Emacs?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-The first stop should be the Gnus manual (Say
address@hidden i d m Gnus RET} to start the
-Gnus manual, then walk through the menus or do a
-full-text search with @samp{s}). Then
-there are the general Emacs help commands starting with
-C-h, type @samp{C-h ? ?} to get a list
-of all available help commands and their meaning. Finally
address@hidden apropos-command} lets you
-search through all available functions and @samp{M-x
-apropos} searches the bound variables.
-
address@hidden [8.2]
address@hidden Question 8.2
-
-I can't find anything in the Gnus manual about X
-(e.g. attachments, PGP, MIME...), is it not documented?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-There's not only the Gnus manual but also the manuals
-for message, emacs-mime, sieve and pgg. Those packages
-are distributed with Gnus and used by Gnus but aren't
-really part of core Gnus, so they are documented in
-different info files, you should have a look in those
-manuals, too.
-
address@hidden [8.3]
address@hidden Question 8.3
-
-Which websites should I know?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-The two most important ones are the
address@hidden://www.gnus.org, official Gnus website}.
-and it's sister site
address@hidden://my.gnus.org, my.gnus.org (MGO)},
-hosting an archive of lisp snippets, howtos, a (not
-really finished) tutorial and this FAQ.
-
-Tell me about other sites which are interesting.
-
address@hidden [8.4]
address@hidden Question 8.4
-
-Which mailing lists and newsgroups are there?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-There's the newsgroup gnu.emacs.gnus
-(also available as
address@hidden://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.user,
-gmane.emacs.gnus.user})
-which deals with general Gnus questions.
-The ding mailing list (ding@@gnus.org) deals with development of
-Gnus. You can read the ding list via NNTP, too under the name
address@hidden://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general,
-gmane.emacs.gnus.general} from news.gmane.org.
-
-If you want to stay in the big8,
-news.software.newssreaders is also read by some Gnus
-users (but chances for qualified help are much better in
-the above groups) and if you speak German, there's
-de.comm.software.gnus.
-
address@hidden [8.5]
address@hidden Question 8.5
-
-Where to report bugs?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Say @samp{M-x gnus-bug}, this will start
-a message to the
address@hidden@@gnus.org, gnus bug mailing list}
-including information about your environment which make
-it easier to help you.
-
address@hidden [8.6]
address@hidden Question 8.6
-
-I need real-time help, where to find it?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-Point your IRC client to irc.freenode.net, channel #gnus.
-
address@hidden FAQ 9 - Tuning Gnus
address@hidden Tuning Gnus
-
address@hidden
-* [9.1]:: Starting Gnus is really slow, how to speed it up?
-* [9.2]:: How to speed up the process of entering a group?
-* [9.3]:: Sending mail becomes slower and slower, what's up?
address@hidden menu
-
address@hidden [9.1]
address@hidden Question 9.1
-
-Starting Gnus is really slow, how to speed it up?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-The reason for this could be the way Gnus reads it's
-active file, see the node "The Active File" in the Gnus
-manual for things you might try to speed the process up.
-An other idea would be to byte compile your ~/.gnus.el (say
address@hidden byte-compile-file RET ~/.gnus.el
-RET} to do it). Finally, if you have require
-statements in your .gnus, you could replace them with
-eval-after-load, which loads the stuff not at startup
-time, but when it's needed. Say you've got this in your
-~/.gnus.el:
-
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-(require 'message)
-(add-to-list 'message-syntax-checks '(sender . disabled))
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-
-then as soon as you start Gnus, message.el is loaded. If
-you replace it with
-
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-(eval-after-load "message"
- '(add-to-list 'message-syntax-checks '(sender . disabled)))
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-
-it's loaded when it's needed.
-
address@hidden [9.2]
address@hidden Question 9.2
-
-How to speed up the process of entering a group?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-A speed killer is setting the variable
-gnus-fetch-old-headers to anything different from nil,
-so don't do this if speed is an issue. To speed up
-building of summary say
-
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-(gnus-compile)
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-
-at the bottom of your ~/.gnus.el, this will make gnus
-byte-compile things like
-gnus-summary-line-format.
-then you could increase the value of gc-cons-threshold
-by saying something like
-
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-(setq gc-cons-threshold 3500000)
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-
-in ~/.emacs. If you don't care about width of CJK
-characters or use Gnus 5.10 or younger together with a
-recent GNU Emacs, you should say
-
address@hidden
-(setq gnus-use-correct-string-widths nil)
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-
-in ~/.gnus.el (thanks to Jesper harder for the last
-two suggestions). Finally if you are still using 5.8.8
-or 5.9 and experience speed problems with summary
-buffer generation, you definitely should update to
-5.10 since there quite some work on improving it has
-been done.
-
address@hidden [9.3]
address@hidden Question 9.3
-
-Sending mail becomes slower and slower, what's up?
-
address@hidden Answer
-
-The reason could be that you told Gnus to archive the
-messages you wrote by setting
-gnus-message-archive-group. Try to use a nnml group
-instead of an archive group, this should bring you back
-to normal speed.
-
address@hidden FAQ - Glossary
address@hidden Glossary
-
address@hidden @dfn
-
address@hidden ~/.gnus.el
-When the term ~/.gnus.el is used it just means your Gnus
-configuration file. You might as well call it ~/.gnus or
-specify another name.
-
address@hidden Back End
-In Gnus terminology a back end is a virtual server, a layer
-between core Gnus and the real NNTP-, POP3-, IMAP- or
-whatever-server which offers Gnus a standardized interface
-to functions like "get message", "get Headers" etc.
-
address@hidden Emacs
-When the term Emacs is used in this FAQ, it means either GNU
-Emacs or XEmacs.
-
address@hidden Message
-In this FAQ message means a either a mail or a posting to a
-Usenet Newsgroup or to some other fancy back end, no matter
-of which kind it is.
-
address@hidden MUA
-MUA is an acronym for Mail User Agent, it's the program you
-use to read and write e-mails.
-
address@hidden NUA
-NUA is an acronym for News User Agent, it's the program you
-use to read and write Usenet news.
-
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