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-@settitle Pterodactyl Gnus 0.91 Manual
+@settitle Pterodactyl Gnus 0.92 Manual
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@titlepage
-@title Pterodactyl Gnus 0.91 Manual
+@title Pterodactyl Gnus 0.92 Manual
@author by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@page
spool or your mbox file. All at the same time, if you want to push your
luck.
-This manual corresponds to Pterodactyl Gnus 0.91.
+This manual corresponds to Pterodactyl Gnus 0.92.
@end ifinfo
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
+Gnus, by default, handles all its groups 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.)
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.
+mail, is that the transport mechanism has very little to do with how
+they want to treat a message.
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.
+via SMTP, and are therefore mail. But we might go for weeks without
+answering, or even reading these messages very carefully. We may not
+need to save them because if we should need to read one again, they are
+archived somewhere else.
+
+Some people have local news groups which have only a handful of readers.
+These are transported via NNTP, and are therefore news. But we may need
+to read and answer a large fraction of the messages very carefully in
+order to do our work. And there may not be an archive, so we may need
+to save the interesting messages the same way we would personal mail.
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.
+but other factors such as how interested we are in the subject matter,
+or how easy it is to retrieve the message if we need to read it again.
+
+Gnus provides many options for sorting mail into ``groups'' which behave
+like newsgroups, and for treating each group (whether mail or news)
+differently.
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
@cindex mail spool
@cindex mail source
-You tell Gnus how to fetch mail by creating a @dfn{mail source
-specifier}.
+You tell Gnus how to fetch mail by setting @code{mail-sources}
+(@pxref{Fetching Mail}) to a @dfn{mail source specifier}.
Here's an example:
variables.
@table @code
-@item mail-source-movemail-program
-@vindex mail-source-movemail-program
-A command to be executed to move mail from the inbox. The default is
-@samp{movemail}.
-
-This can also be a function. In that case, the function will be
-called with two parameters -- the name of the INBOX file, and the file
-to be moved to.
-
-@item mail-source-movemail-args
-@vindex mail-source-movemail-args
-Extra arguments to give to the command described above.
-
@item mail-source-crash-box
@vindex mail-source-crash-box
File where mail will be stored while processing it. The default is
;; Other mailing lists...
(any "procmail@@informatik\\.rwth-aachen\\.de" "procmail.list")
(any "SmartList@@informatik\\.rwth-aachen\\.de" "SmartList.list")
+ ;; Both lists below have the same suffix, so prevent
+ ;; cross-posting to mkpkg.list of messages posted only to
+ ;; the bugs- list, but allow cross-posting when the
+ ;; message was really cross-posted.
+ (any "bugs-mypackage@@somewhere" "mypkg.bugs")
+ (any "mypackage@@somewhere\" - "bugs-mypackage" "mypkg.list")
;; People...
(any "larsi@@ifi\\.uio\\.no" "people.Lars_Magne_Ingebrigtsen"))
;; Unmatched mail goes to the catch all group.
examples.
@item
-@var{(FIELD VALUE SPLIT)}: If the split is a list, the first element of
-which is a string, then store the message as specified by SPLIT, if
-header FIELD (a regexp) contains VALUE (also a regexp).
+@var{(FIELD VALUE [- RESTRICT [- RESTRICT [...]]] SPLIT)}: If the split
+is a list, the first element of which is a string, then store the
+message as specified by SPLIT, if header FIELD (a regexp) contains VALUE
+(also a regexp). If RESTRICT (yet another regexp) matches some string
+after FIELD and before the end of the matched VALUE, the SPLIT is
+ignored. If none of the RESTRICT clauses match, SPLIT is processed.
@item
@var{(| SPLIT...)}: If the split is a list, and the first element is
Matt Armstrong,
Marc Auslander,
Miles Bader,
+Alexei V. Barantsev,
Frank Bennett,
Robert Bihlmeyer,
Chris Bone,
Mark Borges,
Mark Boyns,
Lance A. Brown,
+Rob Browning,
Kees de Bruin,
Martin Buchholz,
Joe Buehler,
David Charlap,
Dan Christensen,
Kevin Christian,
+Jae-you Chung, @c ?
+James H. Cloos, Jr.,
+Laura Conrad,
Michael R. Cook,
Glenn Coombs,
+Andrew J. Cosgriff,
+Neil Crellin,
Frank D. Cringle,
Geoffrey T. Dairiki,
Andre Deparade,
Michael Welsh Duggan,
Dave Edmondson,
Paul Eggert,
+Mark W. Eichin,
Karl Eichwalder,
Enami Tsugutomo, @c Enami
Michael Ernst,
Sam Falkner,
Nelson Jose dos Santos Ferreira,
Sigbjorn Finne,
+Sven Fischer,
Paul Fisher,
Decklin Foster,
Gary D. Foster,
Yoshiki Hayashi, @c ?
P. E. Jareth Hein,
Hisashige Kenji, @c Hisashige
+Scott Hofmann,
Marc Horowitz,
Gunnar Horrigmo,
Richard Hoskins,
Brad Howes,
+Miguel de Icaza,
François Felix Ingrand,
+Tatsuya Ichikawa, @c ?
Ishikawa Ichiro, @c Ishikawa
Lee Iverson,
Iwamuro Motonori, @c Iwamuro
Rajappa Iyer,
Andreas Jaeger,
+Adam P. Jenkins,
Randell Jesup,
Fred Johansen,
Gareth Jones,
Simon Josefsson,
Greg Klanderman,
Karl Kleinpaste,
+Michael Klingbeil,
Peter Skov Knudsen,
Shuhei Kobayashi, @c Kobayashi
+Petr Konecny,
Koseki Yoshinori, @c Koseki
Thor Kristoffersen,
Jens Lautenbacher,
Ken Olstad,
Masaharu Onishi, @c Onishi
Hideki Ono, @c Ono
+Ettore Perazzoli,
William Perry,
Stephen Peters,
Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen,
Richard Stallman,
Greg Stark,
Sam Steingold,
+Paul Stevenson,
Jonas Steverud,
Paul Stodghill,
+Kiyokazu Suto, @c Suto
Kurt Swanson,
Samuel Tardieu,
Teddy,
Chuck Thompson,
+Tozawa Akihiko, @c Tozawa
Philippe Troin,
James Troup,
Trung Tran-Duc,
+Jack Twilley,
Aaron M. Ucko,
Aki Vehtari,
Didier Verna,
+Vladimir Volovich,
Jan Vroonhof,
Stefan Waldherr,
Pete Ware,
Allow "orphan" scores in the Agent scoring.
@item
+@example
+ - Edit article's summary line.
+ - End edit
+ - Sort lines in buffer by subject
+
+ --> the old subject line appears in Summary buffer, not the one that was
+ just changed to.
+@end example
+
+@item
Solve the halting problem.
@c TODO
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