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-@settitle Semi-gnus 6.10.068 Manual
+@settitle Semi-gnus 6.10.069 Manual
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@titlepage
-@title Semi-gnus 6.10.068 Manual
+@title Semi-gnus 6.10.069 Manual
@author by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@page
API. So Semi-gnus does not discriminate various language communities.
Oh, if you are a Klingon, please wait Unicode Next Generation.
-This manual corresponds to Semi-gnus 6.10.068.
+This manual corresponds to Semi-gnus 6.10.069.
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If you wish to check whether the message you are about to compose is
meant to be a news article or a mail message, you can check the values
-of the two dynamically bound variables @code{message-this-is-news} and
-@code{message-this-is-mail}.
+of the @code{message-news-p} and @code{message-mail-p} functions.
-@vindex message-this-is-mail
-@vindex message-this-is-news
+@findex message-mail-p
+@findex message-news-p
So here's a new example:
(signature my-funny-signature-randomizer))
((equal (system-name) "gnarly")
(signature my-quote-randomizer))
- (message-this-is-news
+ ((message-news-p)
(signature my-news-signature))
- (posting-from-work-p
+ ((posting-from-work-p)
(signature-file "~/.work-signature")
(address "user@@bar.foo")
(body "You are fired.\n\nSincerely, your boss.")
course.
@menu
+* Mail in a Newsreader:: Important introductory notes.
* Getting Started Reading Mail:: A simple cookbook example.
* Splitting Mail:: How to create mail groups.
* Mail Sources:: How to tell Gnus where to get mail from.
@end menu
+@node Mail in a Newsreader
+@subsection Mail in a Newsreader
+
+If you are used to traditional mail readers, but have decided to switch
+to reading mail with Gnus, you may find yourself experiencing something
+of a culture shock.
+
+Gnus does not behave like traditional mail readers. If you want to make
+it behave that way, you can, but it's an uphill battle.
+
+Gnus, by default, handles all its group using the same approach. This
+approach is very newsreaderly---you enter a group, see the new/unread
+messages, and when you read the messages, they get marked as read, and
+you don't see them any more. (Unless you explicitly ask for them.)
+
+In particular, you do not do anything explicitly to delete messages.
+
+Does this mean that all the messages that have been marked as read are
+deleted? How awful!
+
+But, no, it means that old messages are @dfn{expired} according to some
+scheme or other. For news messages, the expire process is controlled by
+the news administrator; for mail, the expire process is controlled by
+you. The expire process for mail is covered in depth in @pxref{Expiring
+Mail}.
+
+What many Gnus users find, after using it a while for both news and
+mail, is that the transport becomes more and more irrelevant. What
+becomes important is the size of the receiving audience.
+
+Many people subscribe to several mailing lists. These are transported
+via SMTP, and are therefore mail. Some people have local news groups
+which have only a handful of readers. These are transported via NNTP,
+and are therefore news.
+
+The important distinction turns out to be not the transport mechanism,
+but whether the messages are @dfn{personal} or @dfn{public}. Many users
+then subtly alter the behavior of Gnus according to these two
+categories.
+
+Some users never get comfortable using the Gnus (ahem) paradigm and wish
+that Gnus should grow up and be a male, er, mail reader. It is possible
+to whip Gnus into a more mailreaderly being, but, as said before, it's
+not easy. People who prefer proper mail readers should try @sc{vm}
+instead, which is an excellent, and proper, mail reader.
+
+I don't mean to scare anybody off, but I want to make it clear that you
+may be required to learn a new way of thinking about messages. After
+you've been subjected to The Gnus Way, you will come to love it. I can
+guarantee it. (At least the guy who sold me the Emacs Subliminal
+Brain-Washing Functions that I've put into Gnus did guarantee it. You
+Will Be Assimilated. You Love Gnus. You Love The Gnus Mail Way.
+You Do.)
+
+
@node Getting Started Reading Mail
@subsection Getting Started Reading Mail
@item
AUTHINFO GENERIC
@item
- support qmail maildir spools
-@item
`run-with-idle-timer' in gnus-demon.
@item
stop using invisible text properties and start using overlays instead
@end example
@item
+Allow "orphan" scores in the Agent scoring.
+
+@item
Solve the halting problem.
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