GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
-Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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* Changes in Oort Gnus
+** `gnus-group-read-ephemeral-group' can be called interactively, using `G M'.
+
+** In draft groups, `e' is now bound to `gnus-draft-edit-message'.
+Use `B w' for `gnus-summary-edit-article' instead.
+
+** The revised Gnus FAQ is included in the manual.
+See the info node "Frequently Asked Questions".
+
+** Upgrading from previous (stable) version if you have used Oort.
+
+If you have tried Oort (the unstable Gnus branch leading to this
+release) but went back to a stable version, be careful when upgrading
+to this version. In particular, you will probably want to remove all
+.marks (nnml) and .mrk (nnfolder) files, so that flags are read from
+your ~/.newsrc.eld instead of from the .marks/.mrk file where this
+release store flags. See a later entry for more information about
+marks. Note that downgrading isn't safe in general.
+
+** Article Buttons
+
+More buttons for URLs, mail addresses, Message-IDs, Info links, man pages and
+Emacs or Gnus related references, see the info node "Article Buttons". The
+variables `gnus-button-*-level' can be used to control the appearance of all
+article buttons, see the info node "Article Button Levels".
+
+** Dired integration
+
+`gnus-dired-minor-mode' installs key bindings in dired buffers to send a file
+as an attachment (`C-c C-m C-a'), open a file using the approriate mailcap
+entry (`C-c C-m C-l'), and print a file using the mailcap entry (`C-c C-m
+C-p'). See the info node "Other modes".
+
+
+** Gnus can display RSS newsfeeds as a newsgroup. To get started do `B
+nnrss RET RET' in the Group buffer.
+
+** Single-part yenc encoded attachments can be decoded.
+
+** Picons
+The picons code has been reimplemented to work in Emacs 21 -- some of
+the previous options have been removed or renamed.
+
+Picons are small "personal icons" representing users, domain and
+newsgroups, which can be displayed in the Article buffer. To enable
+picons, install the picons database from
+
+ http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/index.html
+
+and point `gnus-picon-databases' to that location.
+
+** If the new option `gnus-treat-body-boundary' is `head', a boundary
+line is drawn at the end of the headers.
+
+** Retrieval of charters and control messages
+There are new commands for fetching newsgroup charters (`H c') and
+control messages (`H C').
+
+** Delayed articles
+You can delay the sending of a message with `C-c C-j' in the Message
+buffer. The messages are delivered at specified time. This is useful
+for sending yourself reminders. Setup with (gnus-delay-initialize).
+
+** If `auto-compression-mode' is enabled, attachments are automatically
+decompressed when activated.
+
+** If the new option `nnml-use-compressed-files' is non-nil,
+the nnml back end allows compressed message files.
+
+** Signed article headers (X-PGP-Sig) can be verified with `W p'.
+
+** The Summary Buffer uses an arrow in the fringe to indicate the
+current article in Emacs 21 running on a graphical display. Customize
+`gnus-summary-display-arrow' to disable it.
+
+** Warn about email replies to news
+Do you often find yourself replying to news by email by mistake? Then
+the new option `gnus-confirm-mail-reply-to-news' is just the thing for
+you.
+
+** If the new option `gnus-summary-display-while-building' is non-nil,
+the summary buffer is shown and updated as it's being built.
+
+** The new `recent' mark "." indicates newly arrived messages (as
+opposed to old but unread messages).
+
+** The new option `gnus-gcc-mark-as-read' automatically marks
+Gcc articles as read.
+
+** The nndoc back end now supports mailman digests and exim bounces.
+
+** Gnus supports RFC 2369 mailing list headers, and adds a number of
+related commands in mailing list groups.
+
+** The Date header can be displayed in a format that can be read aloud
+in English, see `gnus-treat-date-english'.
+
+** The envelope sender address can be customized when using Sendmail, see
+`message-sendmail-envelope-from'.
+
+** diffs are automatically highlighted in groups matching
+`mm-uu-diff-groups-regexp'
+
** TLS wrapper shipped with Gnus
TLS/SSL is now supported in IMAP and NNTP via tls.el and GNUTLS. The
respectively emacs.exe is located, iff you want to install Gnus after
compiling it, give make.bat /copy as the second parameter.
-Make.bat has been rewritten from scratch, it now features automatic
+`make.bat' has been rewritten from scratch, it now features automatic
recognition of XEmacs and GNU Emacs, generates gnus-load.el, checks if
errors occur while compilation and generation of info files and reports
-them at the end of the build process. It now uses makeinfo if it is
-available and falls back to infohack.el otherwise. Make.bat should now
+them at the end of the build process. It now uses makeinfo if it is
+available and falls back to infohack.el otherwise. `make.bat' should now
install all files which are necessary to run Gnus and be generally a
complete replacement for the "configure; make; make install" cycle used
under Unix systems.
** Smileys (":-)", ";-)" etc) are now iconized for Emacs too.
-Put (setq gnus-treat-display-smileys nil) in ~/.emacs to disable it.
+Customize `gnus-treat-display-smileys' to disable it.
-** Gnus no longer generate the Sender: header automatically.
+** Gnus no longer generates the Sender: header automatically.
Earlier it was generated iff the user configurable email address was
different from the Gnus guessed default user address. As the guessing
-algorithm is rarely correct these days, and (more controversally) the
+algorithm is rarely correct these days, and (more controversially) the
only use of the Sender: header was to check if you are entitled to
cancel/supersede news (which is now solved by Cancel Locks instead,
see another entry), generation of the header has been disabled by
`message-cross-post-*').
** References and X-Draft-Headers are no longer generated when you
- start composing messages.
+start composing messages and `message-generate-headers-first' is nil.
** Improved anti-spam features.
Gnus is now able to take out spam from your mail and news streams
-using a wide variety of programs and filter rules. Among the supported
+using a wide variety of programs and filter rules. Among the supported
methods are RBL blocklists, bogofilter and white/blacklists. Hooks
for easy use of external packages such as SpamAssassin and Hashcash
are also new.
be correct for nnimap groups. This is achieved by calling
`nnimap-fixup-unread-after-getting-new-news' from the
`gnus-setup-news-hook' (called on startup) and
-gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook. (called after getting new mail). If
-you have modified those variables from the default, you may want to
+`gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook' (called after getting new mail).
+If you have modified those variables from the default, you may want to
add n-f-u-a-g-n-n again. If you were happy with the estimate and want
to save some (minimal) time when getting new mail, remove the
function.
** gnus-agent
-The Gnus Agent has seen a major updated and is now enabled by default,
-and all nntp and nnimap servers from gnus-select-method and
-gnus-secondary-select-method are agentized by default. Earlier only
-the server in gnus-select-method was agentized by the default, and the
+The Gnus Agent has seen a major update. It is now enabled by default,
+and all nntp and nnimap servers from `gnus-select-method' and
+`gnus-secondary-select-method' are agentized by default. Earlier only
+the server in `gnus-select-method' was agentized by the default, and the
agent was disabled by default. When the agent is enabled, headers are
now also retrieved from the Agent cache instead of the backends when
-possible. Earlier this only happened in the unplugged state. You can
+possible. Earlier this only happened in the unplugged state. You can
enroll or remove servers with `J a' and `J r' in the server buffer.
Gnus will not download articles into the Agent cache, unless you
instruct it to do so, though, by using `J u' or `J s' from the Group
buffer. You revert to the old behaviour of having the Agent disabled
-with `(setq gnus-agent nil)'. Note that putting (gnus-agentize) in
+by customizing `gnus-agent'. Note that putting `(gnus-agentize)' in
~/.gnus is not needed any more.
** gnus-summary-line-format
The default value changed to "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n".
-Moreover gnus-extra-headers, nnmail-extra-headers and
-gnus-ignored-from-addresses changed their default so that the users
+Moreover `gnus-extra-headers', `nnmail-extra-headers' and
+`gnus-ignored-from-addresses' changed their default so that the users
name will be replaced by the recipient's name or the group name
posting to for NNTP groups.
** (require 'gnus-load)
-If you use a stand-alone Gnus distribution, you'd better add (require
-'gnus-load) into your ~/.emacs after adding the Gnus lisp directory
-into load-path.
+If you use a stand-alone Gnus distribution, you'd better add
+"(require 'gnus-load)" to your ~/.emacs after adding the Gnus
+lisp directory into load-path.
File gnus-load.el contains autoload commands, functions and variables,
some of which may not be included in distributions of Emacsen.
** message-insinuate-rmail
-Adding (message-insinuate-rmail) and (setq mail-user-agent
-'gnus-user-agent) in .emacs convinces RMAIL to compose, reply and
-forward messages in message-mode, where you can enjoy the power of
-MML.
+Adding (message-insinuate-rmail) in .emacs and customizing
+`mail-user-agent' to `gnus-user-agent' convinces Rmail to compose,
+reply and forward messages in Message mode, where you can enjoy the
+power of MML.
** message-minibuffer-local-map
The line below enables BBDB in resending a message:
-(define-key message-minibuffer-local-map [(tab)] 'bbdb-complete-name)
+(define-key message-minibuffer-local-map [?\t] 'bbdb-complete-name)
-** Externalize attachments.
+** Externalizing and deleting of attachments.
-If gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments (or
-message-fcc-externalize-attachments) is non-nil, attach local files as
-external parts.
+If `gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments' (or
+`message-fcc-externalize-attachments') is non-nil, attach local files
+as external parts.
-Command gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip (bound to \C-o on MIME buttons)
-saves a part and replaces the part with an external one. It works only
-on back ends that support editing.
+The command `gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip' (bound to `C-o' on MIME
+buttons) saves a part and replaces the part with an external one.
+`gnus-mime-delete-part' (bound to `d' on MIME buttons) removes a part.
+It works only on back ends that support editing.
** gnus-default-charset
-The default value is determined from the current-language-environment
-variable, instead of 'iso-8859-1. Also the ".*" item in
-gnus-group-charset-alist is removed.
+The default value now guesses on the basis of your environment instead
+of using Latin-1. Also the ".*" item in gnus-group-charset-alist is
+removed.
** gnus-posting-styles
** message-ignored-news-headers and message-ignored-mail-headers
X-Draft-From and X-Gnus-Agent-Meta-Information have been added into
-these two variables. If you customized those, perhaps you need add
+these two variables. If you customized those, perhaps you need add
those two headers too.
** Gnus reads the NOV and articles in the Agent if plugged.
If one reads an article while plugged, and the article already exists
-in the Agent, it won't get downloaded once more. (setq
-gnus-agent-cache nil) reverts to the old behavior.
+in the Agent, it won't get downloaded once more. Customize
+`gnus-agent-cache' to revert to the old behavior.
** Gnus supports the "format=flowed" (RFC 2646) parameter.
** Message supports the Importance: (RFC 2156) header.
-In the message buffer, C-c C-f C-i or C-u cycles through the valid values.
+In the message buffer, `C-c C-f C-i' or `C-c C-u' cycles through the
+valid values.
** Gnus supports Cancel Locks in News.
This means a header "Cancel-Lock" is inserted in news posting. It is
used to determine if you wrote a article or not (for cancelling and
superseding). Gnus generates a random password string the first time
-you post a message, and saves it in your ~/.emacs using the Custom
-system. While the variable is called `canlock-password', it is not
-security sensitive data. Publishing your canlock string on the web
-will not allow anyone to be able to anything she could not already do.
-The behaviour can be changed by customizing `message-insert-canlock'.
+you post a message, and saves it using the Custom system. While the
+variable is called `canlock-password', it is not security sensitive
+data. Publishing your canlock string on the web will not allow anyone
+to be able to anything she could not already do. The behaviour can be
+changed by customizing `message-insert-canlock'.
** Gnus supports server-side mail filtering using Sieve.
** Extended format specs.
Format spec "%&user-date;" is added into
-gnus-summary-line-format-alist. Also, user defined extended format
+`gnus-summary-line-format-alist'. Also, user defined extended format
specs are supported. The extended format specs look like "%u&foo;",
-which invokes function gnus-user-format-function-foo. Because "&" is
+which invokes function `gnus-user-format-function-foo'. Because "&" is
used as the escape character, old user defined format "%u&" is no
longer supported.
It was aliased to `Y c' (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles). The new
function filters out other articles.
+** Some limiting commands accept a C-u prefix to negate the match.
+
+If C-u is used on subject, author or extra headers, i.e., `/ s', `/
+a', and `/ x' (gnus-summary-limit-to-{subject,author,extra})
+respectively, the result will be to display all articles that do not
+match the expression.
+
** Group names are treated as UTF-8 by default.
This is supposedly what USEFOR wanted to migrate to. See
`gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist' and
`gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist' for customization.
-** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each groups.
+** The nnml and nnfolder backends store marks for each group.
This makes it possible to take backup of nnml/nnfolder servers/groups
-separately of .newsrc.eld, while preserving marks. It also makes it
+separately of ~/.newsrc.eld, while preserving marks. It also makes it
possible to share articles and marks between users (without sharing
-the .newsrc.eld file) within e.g. a department. It works by storing
-the marks stored in .newsrc.eld in a per-group file ".marks" (for
+the ~/.newsrc.eld file) within e.g. a department. It works by storing
+the marks stored in ~/.newsrc.eld in a per-group file ".marks" (for
nnml) and "groupname.mrk" (for nnfolder, named "groupname"). If the
nnml/nnfolder is moved to another machine, Gnus will automatically use
-the .marks or .mrk file instead of the information in .newsrc.eld.
+the .marks or .mrk file instead of the information in ~/.newsrc.eld.
The new server variables `nnml-marks-is-evil' and
`nnfolder-marks-is-evil' can be used to disable this feature.
been renamed to "Gnus".
** The menu bar item (in Message mode) named "MML" has been renamed to
-"Attachments".
+"Attachments". Note that this menu also contains security related
+stuff, like signing and encryption.
** gnus-group-charset-alist and gnus-group-ignored-charsets-alist.
("^han\\>" euc-kr) -> ("\\(^\\|:\\)han\\>" euc-kr)
** Gnus supports PGP (RFC 1991/2440), PGP/MIME (RFC 2015/3156) and
-** S/MIME (RFC 2630-2633).
-It needs an external S/MIME and OpenPGP implementation, but no additional
-lisp libraries.
+S/MIME (RFC 2630-2633).
+
+It needs an external S/MIME and OpenPGP implementation, but no
+additional lisp libraries. This add several menu items to the
+Attachments menu, and C-c RET key bindings, when composing messages.
+This also obsoletes `gnus-article-hide-pgp-hook'.
** Gnus inlines external parts (message/external).
This change was made to avoid conflict with the standard binding of
`back-to-indentation', which is also useful in message mode.
+** The default for message-forward-show-mml changed to symbol best.
+
+The behaviour for the `best' value is to show MML (i.e., convert MIME
+to MML) when appropriate. MML will not be used when forwarding signed
+or encrypted messages, as the conversion invalidate the digital
+signature.
+
** Bug fixes.
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+Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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