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".
13 The Gnus Agent is now enabled by default. This means that, e.g.,
14 headers are not downloaded from agentized servers by default (agentize
15 servers by using `J a' in the server buffer). Gnus will not start to
16 download articles unless you instruct it to do so, though, by using
17 e.g. J u or J s from the group buffer. Revert to the old behaviour
18 with `(setq gnus-agent nil)'. Note that putting (gnus-agentize) in
19 ~/.gnus is not needed any more.
21 ** gnus-summary-line-format
23 The default value changed to "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n".
24 Moreover gnus-extra-headers, nnmail-extra-headers and
25 gnus-ignored-from-addresses changed their default so that the users
26 name will be replaced by the recipient's name or the group name
27 posting to for NNTP groups.
29 ** deuglify.el (gnus-article-outlook-deuglify-article)
31 A new file from Raymond Scholz <rscholz@zonix.de> for deuglifying
32 broken Outlook (Express) articles.
34 ** (require 'gnus-load)
36 If you use a stand-alone Gnus distribution, you'd better add (require
37 'gnus-load) into your ~/.emacs after adding the Gnus lisp directory
40 File gnus-load.el contains autoload commands, functions and variables,
41 some of which may not be included in distributions of Emacsen.
43 ** gnus-slave-unplugged
45 A new command which starts gnus offline in slave mode.
47 ** message-insinuate-rmail
49 Adding (message-insinuate-rmail) and (setq mail-user-agent
50 'gnus-user-agent) in .emacs convinces RMAIL to compose, reply and
51 forward messages in message-mode, where you can enjoy the power of
54 ** message-minibuffer-local-map
56 The line below enables BBDB in resending a message:
58 (define-key message-minibuffer-local-map [(tab)] 'bbdb-complete-name)
60 ** Externalize attachments.
62 If gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments (or
63 message-fcc-externalize-attachments) is non-nil, attach local files as
66 Command gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip (bound to \C-o on MIME buttons)
67 saves a part and replaces the part with an external one. It works only
68 on back ends that support editing.
70 ** gnus-default-charset
72 The default value is determined from the current-language-environment
73 variable, instead of 'iso-8859-1. Also the ".*" item in
74 gnus-group-charset-alist is removed.
76 ** gnus-posting-styles
78 Add a new format of match like
80 ((header "to" "larsi.*org")
81 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
83 The old format like the lines below is obsolete.
85 (header "to" "larsi.*org"
86 (Organization "Somewhere, Inc."))
88 ** message-ignored-news-headers and message-ignored-mail-headers
90 X-Draft-From and X-Gnus-Agent-Meta-Information have been added into
91 these two variables. If you customized those, perhaps you need add
92 those two headers too.
94 ** Gnus reads the NOV and articles in the Agent if plugged.
96 If one reads an article while plugged, and the article already exists
97 in the Agent, it won't get downloaded once more. (setq
98 gnus-agent-cache nil) reverts to the old behavior.
100 ** Gnus supports the "format=flowed" (RFC 2646) parameter.
102 On composing messages, it is enabled by `use-hard-newlines'. Decoding
103 format=flowed was present but not documented in earlier versions.
105 ** Gnus supports the generation of RFC 2298 Disposition Notification requests.
107 This is invoked with the C-c M-n key binding from message mode.
109 ** Gnus supports Maildir groups.
111 Gnus includes a new backend nnmaildir.el.
113 ** Printing capabilities are enhanced.
115 Gnus supports Muttprint natively with O P from the Summary and Article
116 buffers. Also, each individual MIME part can be printed using p on
119 ** Message supports the Importance: header.
121 In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-c C-u cycles through the valid
124 ** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
126 This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
127 used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for
128 cancelling/superseding). The behaviour can be changed by customizing
129 `message-insert-canlock'.
131 ** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
133 Sieve rules can be added as Group Parameters for groups, and the
134 complete Sieve script is generated using `D g' from the Group buffer,
135 and then uploaded to the server using `C-c C-l' in the generated Sieve
136 buffer. Search the online Gnus manual for "sieve", and see the new
137 Sieve manual, for more information.
139 ** Extended format specs.
141 Format spec "%&user-date;" is added into
142 gnus-summary-line-format-alist. Also, user defined extended format
143 specs are supported. The extended format specs look like "%u&foo;",
144 which invokes function gnus-user-format-function-foo. Because "&" is
145 used as the escape character, old user defined format "%u&" is no
148 ** `/ *' (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) is rewritten.
150 It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
151 function filters out other articles.
153 ** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
155 This is supposedly what USEFOR wants to migrate to. See
156 `gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
157 `gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
159 ** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
161 This makes it possible to take backup of nnml/nnfolder servers/groups
162 separately of .newsrc.eld, while preserving marks. It also makes it
163 possible to share articles and marks between users (without sharing
164 the .newsrc.eld file) within e.g. a department. It works by storing
165 the marks stored in .newsrc.eld in a per-group file ".marks" (for
166 nnml) and "groupname.mrk" (for nnfolder, named "groupname"). If the
167 nnml/nnfolder is moved to another machine, Gnus will automatically use
168 the .marks or .mrk file instead of the information in .newsrc.eld.
169 The new server variables `nnml-marks-is-evil' and
170 `nnfolder-marks-is-evil' can be used to disable this feature.
172 ** The menu bar (in Group and Summary buffer) named "Misc" has been
175 ** The menu bar (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
178 ** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
180 The regexps in these variables are compared with full group names
181 instead of real group names in 5.8. Users who customize these
182 variables should change those regexps accordingly. For example:
184 ("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
186 ** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP/MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
187 S/MIME (RFC 2630-2633).
189 ** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
191 ** MML (Mime compose) prefix changed from `M-m' to `C-c C-m'.
193 This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
194 `back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
197 * Changes in Pterodactyl Gnus (5.8/5.9)
199 The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
200 four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
201 internationalization and mail-fetching.
203 ** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
204 many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
206 If you used procmail like in
208 (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
209 (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
210 (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
211 (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
213 this now has changed to
216 '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
219 More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
220 Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
222 ** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
223 Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
225 ** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
226 many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
228 ** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
229 called to position point.
231 ** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
232 summary buffers and NOV files.
234 ** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
235 of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
237 ** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
238 subtly different manner.
240 ** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
241 and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
242 ever-changing layouts.
244 ** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
247 * For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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