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 ** Improved anti-speam features.
13 ** Easy inclusion of X-Faces headers.
15 ** In the summary buffer, the new command / N inserts new messages and
16 / o inserts old messages.
18 ** Gnus decodes morse encoded messages if you press W m.
20 ** Unread count correct in nnimap groups.
22 The estimated number of unread articles in the group buffer should now
23 be correct for nnimap groups. This is achieved by calling
24 `nnimap-fixup-unread-after-getting-new-news' from the
25 `gnus-setup-news-hook' (called on startup) and
26 gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook. (called after getting new mail). If
27 you have modified those variables from the default, you may want to
28 add n-f-u-a-g-n-n again. If you were happy with the estimate and want
29 to save some (minimal) time when getting new mail, remove the
32 ** Group Carbon Copy (GCC) quoting
34 To support groups that contains SPC and other weird characters, groups
35 are quoted before they are placed in the Gcc: header. This means
36 variables such as `gnus-message-archive-group' should no longer
37 contain quote characters to make groups containing SPC work. Also, if
38 you are using the string "nnml:foo, nnml:bar" (indicating Gcc into two
39 groups) you must change it to return the list ("nnml:foo" "nnml:bar"),
40 otherwise the Gcc: line will be quoted incorrectly. Note that
41 returning the string "nnml:foo, nnml:bar" was incorrect earlier, it
42 just didn't generate any problems since it was inserted directly.
44 ** ~/News/overview/ not used.
46 As a result of the following change, the ~/News/overview/ directory is
47 not used any more. You can safely delete the entire hierarchy.
51 The Gnus Agent has seen a major updated and is now enabled by default,
52 and all nntp and nnimap servers from gnus-select-method and
53 gnus-secondary-select-method are agentized by default. Earlier only
54 the server in gnus-select-method was agentized by the default, and the
55 agent was disabled by default. When the agent is enabled, headers are
56 now also retrieved from the Agent cache instead of the backends when
57 possible. Earlier this only happened in the unplugged state. You can
58 enroll or remove servers with `J a' and `J r' in the server buffer.
59 Gnus will not download articles into the Agent cache, unless you
60 instruct it to do so, though, by using `J u' or `J s' from the Group
61 buffer. You revert to the old behaviour of having the Agent disabled
62 with `(setq gnus-agent nil)'. Note that putting (gnus-agentize) in
63 ~/.gnus is not needed any more.
65 ** gnus-summary-line-format
67 The default value changed to "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n".
68 Moreover gnus-extra-headers, nnmail-extra-headers and
69 gnus-ignored-from-addresses changed their default so that the users
70 name will be replaced by the recipient's name or the group name
71 posting to for NNTP groups.
73 ** deuglify.el (gnus-article-outlook-deuglify-article)
75 A new file from Raymond Scholz <rscholz@zonix.de> for deuglifying
76 broken Outlook (Express) articles.
78 ** (require 'gnus-load)
80 If you use a stand-alone Gnus distribution, you'd better add (require
81 'gnus-load) into your ~/.emacs after adding the Gnus lisp directory
84 File gnus-load.el contains autoload commands, functions and variables,
85 some of which may not be included in distributions of Emacsen.
87 ** gnus-slave-unplugged
89 A new command which starts gnus offline in slave mode.
91 ** message-insinuate-rmail
93 Adding (message-insinuate-rmail) and (setq mail-user-agent
94 'gnus-user-agent) in .emacs convinces RMAIL to compose, reply and
95 forward messages in message-mode, where you can enjoy the power of
98 ** message-minibuffer-local-map
100 The line below enables BBDB in resending a message:
102 (define-key message-minibuffer-local-map [(tab)] 'bbdb-complete-name)
104 ** Externalize attachments.
106 If gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments (or
107 message-fcc-externalize-attachments) is non-nil, attach local files as
110 Command gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip (bound to \C-o on MIME buttons)
111 saves a part and replaces the part with an external one. It works only
112 on back ends that support editing.
114 ** gnus-default-charset
116 The default value is determined from the current-language-environment
117 variable, instead of 'iso-8859-1. Also the ".*" item in
118 gnus-group-charset-alist is removed.
120 ** gnus-posting-styles
122 Add a new format of match like
124 ((header "to" "larsi.*org")
125 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
127 The old format like the lines below is obsolete.
129 (header "to" "larsi.*org"
130 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
132 ** message-ignored-news-headers and message-ignored-mail-headers
134 X-Draft-From and X-Gnus-Agent-Meta-Information have been added into
135 these two variables. If you customized those, perhaps you need add
136 those two headers too.
138 ** Gnus reads the NOV and articles in the Agent if plugged.
140 If one reads an article while plugged, and the article already exists
141 in the Agent, it won't get downloaded once more. (setq
142 gnus-agent-cache nil) reverts to the old behavior.
144 ** Gnus supports the "format=flowed" (RFC 2646) parameter.
146 On composing messages, it is enabled by `use-hard-newlines'. Decoding
147 format=flowed was present but not documented in earlier versions.
149 ** Gnus supports the generation of RFC 2298 Disposition Notification requests.
151 This is invoked with the C-c M-n key binding from message mode.
153 ** Gnus supports Maildir groups.
155 Gnus includes a new backend nnmaildir.el.
157 ** Printing capabilities are enhanced.
159 Gnus supports Muttprint natively with O P from the Summary and Article
160 buffers. Also, each individual MIME part can be printed using p on
163 ** Message supports the Importance: (RFC 2156) header.
165 In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-u cycles through the valid values.
167 ** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
169 This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
170 used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for
171 cancelling/superseding). The behaviour can be changed by customizing
172 `message-insert-canlock'.
174 ** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
176 Sieve rules can be added as Group Parameters for groups, and the
177 complete Sieve script is generated using `D g' from the Group buffer,
178 and then uploaded to the server using `C-c C-l' in the generated Sieve
179 buffer. Search the online Gnus manual for "sieve", and see the new
180 Sieve manual, for more information.
182 ** Extended format specs.
184 Format spec "%&user-date;" is added into
185 gnus-summary-line-format-alist. Also, user defined extended format
186 specs are supported. The extended format specs look like "%u&foo;",
187 which invokes function gnus-user-format-function-foo. Because "&" is
188 used as the escape character, old user defined format "%u&" is no
191 ** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
193 It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
194 function filters out other articles.
196 ** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
198 This is supposedly what USEFOR wants to migrate to. See
199 `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
200 `gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
202 ** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
204 This makes it possible to take backup of nnml/nnfolder servers/groups
205 separately of .newsrc.eld, while preserving marks. It also makes it
206 possible to share articles and marks between users (without sharing
207 the .newsrc.eld file) within e.g. a department. It works by storing
208 the marks stored in .newsrc.eld in a per-group file ".marks" (for
209 nnml) and "groupname.mrk" (for nnfolder, named "groupname"). If the
210 nnml/nnfolder is moved to another machine, Gnus will automatically use
211 the .marks or .mrk file instead of the information in .newsrc.eld.
212 The new server variables `nnml-marks-is-evil' and
213 `nnfolder-marks-is-evil' can be used to disable this feature.
215 ** The menu bar (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has been
218 ** The menu bar (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
221 ** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
223 The regexps in these variables are compared with full group names
224 instead of real group names in 5.8. Users who customize these
225 variables should change those regexps accordingly. For example:
227 ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
229 ** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP/MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
230 ** S/MIME (RFC 2630-2633).
231 It needs an external S/MIME and OpenPGP implementation, but no additional
234 ** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
236 ** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
238 This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
239 `back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
244 * Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
246 The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
247 four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
248 internationalization and mail-fetching.
250 ** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
251 many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
253 If you used procmail like in
255 (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
256 (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
257 (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
258 (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
260 this now has changed to
263 '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
266 More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
267 Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
269 ** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
270 Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
272 ** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
273 many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
275 ** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
276 called to position point.
278 ** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
279 summary buffers and NOV files.
281 ** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
282 of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
284 ** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
285 subtly different manner.
287 ** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
288 and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
289 ever-changing layouts.
291 ** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
294 * For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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