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