** Gnus changes.
-*** The Gnus alpha distribution no longer bundles Custom and Widget.
-If your Emacs doesn't come with these libraries, fetch them from
-<URL:http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~abraham/custom/>. You also then need to
-add the following to the lisp/dgnushack.el file:
+The Gnus NEWS entries are short, but they reflect sweeping changes in
+four areas: Article display treatment, MIME treatment,
+internationalization and mail-fetching.
- (push "~/lisp/custom" load-path)
+*** The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the
+many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.
-Modify to suit your needs.
+If you used procmail like in
-*** New functionality for using Gnus as an offline newsreader has been
-added. A plethora of new commands and modes have been added. See the
-Gnus manual for the full story.
+(setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
+(setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
+(setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
+(setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
-*** The nndraft backend has returned, but works differently than
-before. All Message buffers are now also articles in the nndraft
-group, which is created automatically.
+this now has changed to
-*** `gnus-alter-header-function' can now be used to alter header
-values.
+(setq mail-sources
+ '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
+ :suffix ".in")))
-*** `gnus-summary-goto-article' now accept Message-ID's.
+More information is available in the info doc at Select Methods ->
+Getting Mail -> Mail Sources
-*** A new Message command for deleting text in the body of a message
-outside the region: `C-c C-v'.
+*** Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of
+Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
-*** You can now post to component group in nnvirtual groups with
-`C-u C-c C-c'.
+*** Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too
+many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
-*** `nntp-rlogin-program' -- new variable to ease customization.
+*** gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be
+called to position point.
-*** `C-u C-c C-c' in `gnus-article-edit-mode' will now inhibit
-re-highlighting of the article buffer.
+*** The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in
+summary buffers and NOV files.
-*** New element in `gnus-boring-article-headers' -- `long-to'.
+*** `gnus-article-display-hook' has been removed. Instead, a number
+of variables starting with `gnus-treat-' have been added.
-*** `M-i' symbolic prefix command. See the section "Symbolic
-Prefixes" in the Gnus manual for details.
+*** The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a
+subtly different manner.
-*** `L' and `I' in the summary buffer now take the symbolic prefix
-`a' to add the score rule to the "all.SCORE" file.
+*** New web-based backends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive
+and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with
+ever-changing layouts.
-*** `gnus-simplify-subject-functions' variable to allow greater
-control over simplification.
-
-*** `A T' -- new command for fetching the current thread.
-
-*** `/ T' -- new command for including the current thread in the
-limit.
-
-*** `M-RET' is a new Message command for breaking cited text.
+*** Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.
+\f
+Local variables:
+mode: outline
+paragraph-separate: "[ \f]*$"
+end:
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