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- Archive-name: gnus-faq
- Posting-frequency: monthly (on or about the 19th)
- Last-modified: Oct 07 02:17 1997
-
- Gnus 5.x Frequently Asked Questions
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Introduction
-
- This is the Gnus Frequently Asked Questions list.
-
- Gnus is a Usenet Newsreader and Electronic Mail User Agent implemented
- as a part of Emacs. It's been around in some form for over 6 years
- now, and has been distributed as a standard part of Emacs for much of
- that time. Gnus 5 is the latest (and greatest) incarnation. The
- original version was called GNUS, and was written by Masanobu UMEDA.
- When autumn crept up in '94, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen grew bored and
- decided to rewrite Gnus.
-
- Its biggest strength is the fact that it is extremely customizable. It
- is somewhat intimidating at first glance, but most of the complexity
- can be ignored until you're ready to take advantage of it. If you
- receive a reasonable volume of e-mail (you're on various mailing
- lists), or you would like to read high-volume mailing lists but cannot
- keep up with them, then you definitely want to investigate Gnus for
- reading mail.
-
- This FAQ is maintained by Justin Sheehy. I would like to thank Steve
- Baur and Per Abrahamsen for doing a wonderful job with this FAQ before
- me.
-
- If you have a Web browser, the official hypertext version is at:
- <URL:http://www.ccs.neu.edu/software/contrib/gnus/> . This version is
- much nicer than the unofficial hypertext versions that are archived at
- Utrecht, Oxford, Smart Pages, Ohio State, and other FAQ archives. See
- the resources question below if you want information on obtaining it
- in another format.
-
- The information contained here was compiled with the assistance of the
- Gnus development mailing list, and any errors or misprints are my
- (Justin Sheehy's) fault, sorry.
-
- What's changed since last time?
-
- 1. Updated Question 1.1 (latest version)
- 2. Updated Question 1.11 (other packages)
- 3. Updated Question 1.2 (mirrors)
-
- This file was last modified on Oct 17, 1997.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Table Of Contents
-
- 1. Installation
- + Q1.1 What is the latest version? [updated]
- + Q1.2 Where do I get Gnus? [updated]
- + Q1.3 What Emacs versions are required?
- + Q1.6 Unsubscribing from the mailing list
- + Q1.7 How do I run Gnus on both Emacs and XEmacs?
- + Q1.8 What resources are available?
- + Q1.9 Gnus hangs on connecting to NNTP server.
- + Q1.10 Mailcrypt 3.4 doesn't work
- + Q1.11 What other packages can I use with Gnus? [updated]
- + Q1.12 How do I make Gnus start faster?
- + Q1.13 I've upgraded to 5.2 and my hooks no longer work
- + Q1.14 How do I specify the NNTP server?
- + Q1.15 What is the difference between persistent and
- unexpirable messages?
- 2. Customizing Gnus
- + Q2.2 How do I quote messages?
- + Q2.4 Any suggestions for all.SCORE?
- + Q2.6 I don't like the default WWW browser
- + Q2.9 Increasing score of favorite authors.
- + Q2.10 Multiple .signatures.
- + Q2.11 Gnus and compression hooks.
- + Q2.12 Using Gnus and other packages.
- + Q2.13 Changing Mail and News directories.
- + Q2.14 Gnus colors have problems with my background color.
- + Q2.15 How do I customize the Sender: line?
- + Q2.16 How do I customize the From: line? (or, how to fix a
- broken Message-ID:)
- + Q2.17 Gnus says my .signature is too long and it isn't
- + Q2.18 What replaces gnus-author-copy?
- + Q2.19 How do I launch Netscape when clicking on an URL?
- + Q2.20 Could I see someone else's ~/.gnus file?
- + Q2.21 Different headers for mail and news
- 3. Reading News
- + Q3.1 Kill file to Score file conversion
- + Q3.2 Killing groups is slow
- + Q3.3 Using an authenticated NNTP server
- + Q3.4 Not reading the first article
- + Q3.5 Why aren't BBDB known posters marked in the summary
- buffer?
- + Q3.6 Cross posted articles aren't marked read.
- + Q3.7 How do I read already read messages?
- + Q3.8 How can nntp be evil?
- 4. Reading Mail
- + Q4.1 What does buffer changed on disk mean?
- + Q4.2 How do you make articles un-expirable?
- + Q4.3 How do I delete bogus nnml: groups?
- + Q4.4 What happened to my new mail groups?
- + Q4.5 Not scoring mail groups
- + Q4.6 How to keep groups always visible?
- + Q4.7 Group renumbering
- + Q4.8 Procmail and Gnus
- + Q4.9 Getting new mail, but not new news
- + Q4.10 Why can't I move articles?
- + Q4.11 Using Gnus for mail and never news
- + Q4.12 Compressed mail files
- + Q4.13 Using an IMAP server
- + Q4.14 Using multiple mail sources
- + Q4.15 Qmail delivery
- _________________________________________________________________
-
- ------------------------------
-
- 1. Installation
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q1.1 What is the latest version of Gnus? [updated]
-
- There are many different versions of Gnus available now. The latest
- released version is 5.4. While in alpha testing it was called Red
- Gnus. The current experimental version of Gnus is Quassia Gnus.
-
- Gnus 5.0.13 is included in the official distribution of Emacs
- 19.30/19.31 and has a version number of 5.1. Do not attempt to use
- this release of Gnus with other Emacsen, as the necessary required
- support has been stripped out of it. Gnus 5.2.38 aka Gnus 5.3 is
- included in Emacs 19.32 and all later versions of Emacs 19.x.
-
- Gnus 5.2.25 is included standard with XEmacs 19.14, and Gnus 5.4.37 is
- included with XEmacs 19.15p7.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q1.2 Where do I get Gnus? [updated]
-
- The latest version is available via HTTP at
- <URL:http://www.gnus.org/gnus.tar.gz> or anonymous FTP at
- <URL:ftp://ftp.gnus.org/pub/emacs/gnus/gnus.tar.gz>.
- Patches are available at <URL:http://www.gnus.org/patches/>.
- You can also fetch it from the North American mirrors:
- <URL:ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu/pub/mirrors/ftp.gnus.org/pub/emacs/gnus/gnu
- s.tar.gz>, <URL:ftp://gnus.xemacs.org/pub/gnus/ifi.uio.no/>,
- <URL:ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu/pub/mirrors/ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/emacs/gnus/>
- , or <URL:ftp://aphrodite.nectar.cs.cmu.edu/pub/ding-gnus/>.
- The last site should only be used as a last resort.
-
- Or, get it from a mirror in South America:
- <URL:ftp://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/news.software/gnus/> or Australia:
- <URL:ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/gnus/>.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q1.3 Which version of Emacs do I need?
-
- Prior to Gnus 5.2, at least GNU Emacs 19.28, or XEmacs 19.12 was
- recommended. GNU Emacs 19.25 has been reported to work under certain
- circumstances, but it doesn't officially work on it. 19.27 has also
- been reported to work.
-
- Because of Gnus 5.2's use of Common Lisp features present only in
- late-model emacsen, it will only work with Emacs 19.30 or later, and
- XEmacs 19.13 or later.
-
- Gnus 5.4 requires emacsen at least as recent as Emacs 19.33 or XEmacs
- 19.14.
-
- Gnus has been reported to work under VMS, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows
- NT 3.51, as well as Unix.
-
- OS/2 requires
- (setq gnus-score-file-suffix "score")
- (setq gnus-adaptive-file-suffix "adapt")
-
- in the user's .gnus.
-
- Ed Mccreary <forge@neosoft.com> writes:
- [For Microsoft Windows NT] Be sure to grab the nttcp.exe file needed
- to perform the winsock communication and configure emacs to use it
- instead of the default tcp. You will also need to put
-
- (setq tcp-program-name "nttcp")
-
- in your _emacs file.
-
- Jack Vinson <jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu> writes:
- Actually, any TCP program will work. I have tcp.exe from the people
- who are doing win32 ports of Gnu software. I found it at
- <URL:ftp://microlib.cc.utexas.edu/microlib/nt/gnu/gnubin.tar.Z>. Be
- warned that this is a large (7mb) archive of all sorts of stuff,
- including (for some reason) all the e-lisp files you will ever want. I
- just downloaded it and extracted the functions I wanted.
-
- Ron Forrester <rjf@infograph.com> writes:
- With the release of GNU Emacs 19.31, Microsoft Windows '95 & NT users
- no longer need nttcp.exe as Emacs now has open-network-stream built
- in.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q1.6 How do I unsubscribe from the Mailing List?
-
- Send an e-mail message to <URL:mailto:ding-request@gnus.org> with the
- magic word unsubscribe somewhere in it, and you will be removed.
-
- If you are reading the digest version of the list, send an e-mail
- message to <URL:mailto:ding-rn-digests-request@bluesky.net> with
- unsubscribe as the subject and you will be removed.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q1.7 How do I run Gnus on both Emacs and XEmacs?
-
- You don't. Gnus is distributed with both emacsen, use the version of
- Gnus that comes with your emacs.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q1.8 What resources are available?
-
- There is the newsgroup Gnu.emacs.gnus. Discussion of Gnus 5.x is now
- taking place there. There is also a mailing list, send mail to
- ding-request@gnus.org with the magic word subscribe somewhere in it.
- NOTE: the traffic on this list is heavy so you may not want to be on
- it (unless you use Gnus as your mailer reader, that is). The mailing
- list is mainly for developers and testers.
-
- Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu> writes:
- Archives of the Ding mailing list are easily accessible by using
- gnus-group-make-archive-group, by default bound to G a in the Group
- buffer. This presents you with a group containing the 500 most recent
- articles from the mailing list. When called with a prefix argument, as
- in C-u G a, the entire (rather huge) archive is fetched. The archives
- are made available via FTP by Jason Tibbitts (tibbs@uh.edu); complain
- to him about problems with access. The magic of accessing the archives
- is provided by Gnus.
-
- A digestified version of the list is available by sending a mail
- message to <URL:mailto:ding-rn-digests-request@bluesky.net> with the
- word subscribe in the Subject field. Digests are sent every few days.
- Archives are available via SmartList commands, just use the above
- address with a Subject of help to get details.
-
- Unfortunately, the machine that handled the digests seems to have been
- shut down. Hopefully there will soon be a new address for the digest.
-
- This mailing list is mirrored on the World Wide Web at
- <URL:http://www.miranova.com/gnus-list/>. The archives date back to
- mid August 1995, are separated by month for access speed, and were
- assembled with the Hypermail 1.02 utility.
-
- There is a bidirectional Usenet gateway to the mailing list at:
- <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.ding>.
-
- Gnus has a home World Wide Web page at
- <URL:http://www.gnus.org/>.
-
- Ketil Z Malde <ketil@ii.uib.no> has a page on mail filtering using
- Gnus:
- <URL:http://www.ii.uib.no/~ketil/mailsorting.html>.
-
- There is a Gnus info page at
- <URL:http://www.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-local.html>.
-
- Gnus has a write up in the comp.windows.x.apps FAQ at:
- <URL:http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/xapps/Q-III.html>.
-
- The Gnus manual is also available on the World Wide Web. To find the
- mirror closest to you, go to:
- <URL:http://www.gnus.org/manual.html>.
-
- PostScript copies of the Gnus Reference card are available from
- <URL:ftp://ftp.cs.ualberta.ca/pub/oolog/gnus/>. They are mirrored at
- <URL:http://www.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de/~gnu/doc/gnusref/>
- in Germany.
-
- An online version of the Gnus FAQ is available at
- <URL:http://www.ccs.neu.edu/software/contrib/gnus/>. Off-line formats
- are also available:
- ASCII: <URL:ftp://gnus.xemacs.org/pub/gnus/gnus-faq>.
- PostScript: <URL:ftp://gnus.xemacs.org/pub/gnus/gnus-faq.ps>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q1.9 Gnus hangs on connecting to NNTP server
-
- I am running XEmacs on SunOS and Gnus prints a message about
- Connecting to NNTP server and then just hangs.
-
- Ben Wing <wing@666.com> writes :
- I wonder if you're hitting the infamous libresolv problem. The basic
- problem is that under SunOS you can compile either with DNS or NIS
- name lookup libraries but not both. Try substituting the IP address
- and see if that works; if so, you need to download the sources and
- recompile.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q1.10 Mailcrypt 3.4 doesn't work
-
- You are attempting to use the mailcrypt 3.4 distribution with Gnus
- 5.3. Mailcrypt 3.4 needs some minor patches to work with Gnus 5.[23],
- that are present in the version of mailcrypt distributed with XEmacs
- 19.14 or later.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q1.11 What other packages work with Gnus? [updated]
-
- Mailcrypt
-
- Mailcrypt is an Emacs interface to PGP, written by Patrick LoPresti
- <patl@lcs.mit.edu> and Jin Choi <jin@atype.com>. It works, it installs
- without hassle, and integrates very easily. Mailcrypt can be obtained
- from
- <URL:http://cag-www.lcs.mit.edu/mailcrypt/>.
-
- Tools for Mime
-
- Tools for Mime is an Emacs MUA interface to MIME written by MORIOKA
- Tomohiko <morioka@jaist.ac.jp>, and KOBAYASHI Shuhei
- <shuhei-k@jaist.ac.jp>. It can be obtained from
- <URL:ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/elisp/mime/>. It has mirrors at:
- <URL:ftp://ftp.nis.co.jp/pub/gnu/emacs-lisp/tm/> (Japan)
- <URL:ftp://ftp.nisiq.net/pub/gnu/emacs-lisp/tm/> (USA)
- <URL:ftp://gnus.xemacs.org/pub/mime/jaist.ac.jp/> (USA)
- <URL:ftp://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/mail/mime/tm/> (Brasil)
- <URL:ftp://ftp.th-darmstadt.de/pub/editors/GNU-Emacs/lisp/mime/>
- (Germany)
- <URL:ftp://ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de/pub/editors/xemacs/contrib/>
- (Germany).
-
- To use with Gnus add the line
- (load "mime-setup")
-
- to your .emacs file before you initialize Gnus.
-
- Alternately, you can use gnus-setup.el to activate tm, bbdb,
- supercite, and other packages. See Question #2.12 for details.
-
- If you are using an XEmacs version of 19.15 or newer, you do not need
- tm as it is now included standard with XEmacs.
-
- Group Lens
-
- Group Lens is a collaborative filtering system that helps you work
- together with other people to find the quality news articles out of
- the huge volume of news articles generated every day. It was written
- by Brad Miller <bmiller@cs.umn.edu> as his PhD thesis. It is now
- distributed as a standard part of Gnus. A copy for Gnus 5 can be
- obtained at:
- <URL:http://www.cs.umn.edu/Research/GroupLens/>. GroupLens has its own
- FAQ at <URL:http://www.cs.umn.edu/Research/GroupLens/glfaq.html>.
-
- Insidious Big Brother Database
-
- BBDB is a rolodex-like database program for GNU Emacs written by Jamie
- Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com> of Netscape fame. Jamie has a web page for
- BBDB at <URL:http://people.netscape.com/jwz/bbdb/>. It can also be
- found at
- <URL:ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/bbdb/>. You should also pick up
- gnus-bbdb from Brian Edmonds:
- <URL:http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds/usenet/gnus/gnus-bbdb.el>.
- Please note that work is underway for a new version of bbdb that
- contains gnus-bbdb.el.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q1.12 How do I make Gnus start faster?
-
- Make sure you kill your unsubscribed groups. This will make Gnus start
- much faster, and keep your .newsrc file sizes down to boot.
-
- Pranav Kumar Tiwari <pktiwari@eos.ncsu.edu> writes :
- I posted the same query recently and I got an answer to it. I am going
- to repeat the answer. What you need is a newer version of gnus,
- version 5.0.4+. I am using 5.0.12 and it works fine with me with the
- following settings:
-
- (setq gnus-check-new-newsgroups nil
- gnus-read-active-file 'some
- gnus-nov-is-evil nil
- gnus-select-method '(nntp gnus-nntp-server))
-
- Francesco Potort∞ <pot@cnuce.cnr.it> writes :
- I would rather write: 'ask-server instead of nil. It is more useful to
- most people, and does not increase the load time too much.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q1.13 I've upgraded to 5.2 (or greater) and my hooks no longer work
-
- Gnus now uses a combined mode for editing mail and news posts called
- message-mode. All your hooks must change to reflect this. You can
- either use gnus-setup.el provided with Gnus 5.2 (please see Q2.12 for
- details), or you can make the changes by hand.
-
- In particular, mail-mode, news-reply-mode, and news-mode have all been
- replaced with message-mode.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q1.14 How do I specify the NNTP server?
-
- There are a variety of ways, all documented in the Gnus user's manual.
-
- 1. (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.somewhere.edu"))
- 2. (setq gnus-select-method '(nnspool ""))
- 3. If gnus-select-method is not set, Gnus will take a look at the
- NNTPSERVER environment variable. If that variable isn't set, Gnus
- will see whether gnus-nntpserver-file (/etc/nntpserver by default)
- has any opinions on the matter. If that fails as well, Gnus will
- will try to use the machine that is running Emacs as an NNTP
- server.
- 4. If gnus-nntp-server is set, this variable will override
- gnus-select-method. You should therefore set gnus-nntp-server to
- nil, which is what it is by default.
- 5. You can also make Gnus prompt you interactively for the name of an
- NNTP server. If you give a non-numerical prefix to gnus (i.e., C-u
- M-x gnus), Gnus will let you choose between the servers in the
- gnus-secondary-servers list (if any).
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q1.15 What is the difference between persistent and unexpirable
- messages?
-
- Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes: The terms are not
- synonymous, they are orthogonal.
-
- If you tap * on an article, you have made it persistent. Nothing you
- ever do, except using the M-* command, will remove it from the cache
- where it's stored.
-
- If you mark an article with the E mark, (ie., made it expirable), it
- will be deleted by the mail backend when it reaches a certain age. The
- persistent copy of the message will not be touched.
-
- The two terms are not related.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- 2. Customizing Gnus
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q2.2 How do I quote messages?
-
- I see lots of messages with quoted material in them. I am wondering
- how to have Gnus do it for me.
-
- This is Gnus, so there are a number of ways of doing this. You can use
- the built-in commands to do this. There are the ``F'' and ``R'' keys
- from the summary buffer which automatically include the article being
- responded to. These commands are also selectable as Followup and Yank
- and Reply and Yank in the Post menu.
-
- C-c C-y grabs the previous message and prefixes each line with
- `message-indentation-spaces' spaces or `message-yank-prefix' if that
- is non-nil, unless you have set your own `message-cite-function',
- which will be called to do the job.
-
- You might also consider the Supercite package, which allows for pretty
- arbitrarily complex quoting styles. Some people love it, some people
- hate it.
-
- If you decide to use Supercite, you need to modify more than just
- `mail-citation-hook'. You need something similar to the following:
-
- (autoload 'sc-cite-original "supercite" "Supercite 3.1" t)
- (setq message-cite-function 'sc-cite-original)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q2.4 Any good suggestions on stuff for an all.SCORE file?
-
- Here is a collection of suggestions from various sources:
-
- From "Dave Disser" <disser@sdd.hp.com>
-
- I like blasting anything without lowercase letters. Weeds out most of
- the make $$ fast, as well as the lame titles like "IBM" and "HP-UX"
- with no further description.
-
- (("Subject"
- ("^\\(Re: \\)?[^a-z]*$" -200 nil R)))
-
- From "Peter Arius" <arius@immd2.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
-
- The most vital entries in my (still young) all.SCORE:
- (("xref"
- ("alt.fan.oj-simpson" -1000 nil s))
- ("subject"
- ("\\<\\(make\\|fast\\|big\\)\\s-*\\(money\\|cash\\|bucks?\\)\\>" -1000 nil r)
- ("$$$$" -1000 nil s)))
-
- From "Per Abrahamsen" <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
-
- (("subject"
- ;; CAPS OF THE WORLD, UNITE
- ("^..[^a-z]+$" -1 nil R)
- ;; $$$ Make Money $$$ (Try work)
- ("$" -1 nil s)
- ;; I'm important! And I have exclamation marks to prove it!
- ("!" -1 nil s)))
-
- From "heddy boubaker" <boubaker@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr>
-
- I would like to contribute with mine.
- (
- (read-only t)
- ("subject"
- ;; ALL CAPS SUBJECTS
- ("^\\([Rr][Ee]: +\\)?[^a-z]+$" -1 nil R)
- ;; $$$ Make Money $$$
- ("$$" -10 nil s)
- ;; Empty subjects are worthless!
- ("^ *\\([(<]none[>)]\\|(no subject\\( given\\)?)\\)? *$" -10 nil r)
- ;; Sometimes interesting announces occur!
- ("ANN?OU?NC\\(E\\|ING\\)" +10 nil r)
- ;; Some people think they're on mailing lists
- ("\\(un\\)?sub?scribe" -100 nil r)
- ;; Stop Micro$oft NOW!!
- ("\\(m\\(icro\\)?[s$]\\(oft\\|lot\\)?-?\\)?wind?\\(ows\\|aube\\|oze\\)?[- ]*\
- \('?95\\|NT\\|3[.]1\\|32\\)" -1001 nil r)
- ;; I've nothing to buy
- ("\\(for\\|4\\)[- ]*sale" -100 nil r)
- ;; SELF-DISCIPLINED people
- ("\\[[^a-z0-9 \t\n][^a-z0-9 \t\n]\\]" +100 nil r)
- )
- ("from"
- ;; To keep track of posters from my site
- (".dgac.fr" +1000 nil s))
- ("followup"
- ;; Keep track of answers to my posts
- ("boubaker" +1000 nil s))
- ("lines"
- ;; Some people have really nothing to say!!
- (1 -10 nil <=))
- (mark -100)
- (expunge -1000)
- )
-
- From "Christopher Jones" <cjones@au.oracle.com>
-
- The sample all.SCORE files from Per and boubaker could be augmented
- with:
-
- (("subject"
- ;; No junk mail please!
- ("please ignore" -500 nil s)
- ("test" -500 nil e))
- )
-
- From "Brian Edmonds" <edmonds@cs.ubc.ca>
-
- Augment any of the above with a fast method of scoring down
- excessively cross posted articles.
-
- ("xref"
- ;; the more cross posting, the exponentially worse the article
- ("^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+" -1 nil r)
- ("^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+" -2 nil r)
- ("^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+" -4 nil r)
- ("^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+" -8 nil r)
- ("^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+" -16 nil r)
- ("^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+" -32 nil r)
- ("^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+" -64 nil
- r)
- ("^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+" -
- 128 nil r)
- ("^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\
- S-+" -256 nil r)
- ("^xref: \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\S-+ \\
- S-+ \\S-+" -512 nil r))
-
- Or see <URL:http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds/usenet/gnus/SCORE>
- which also includes pointers to my SMEGHEADS and BLACKLIST files.
-
- From "Hardrock" <dharland@kendaco.telebyte.com>
-
- (Original source unknown, this is used by permission from the Grubor
- FAQ 2.21).
-
- ("from"
- ("Law Doctor" -10000 nil s)
- ("Manus" -10000 nil s)
- ("Grubor" -10000 nil s)
- ("DrG" -10000 nil s))
-
- From "d. hall" <dhall@virage.org>
-
- Here's an example of using the orphan scoring rule to make reading of
- large newsgroups more pleasant, in this case comp.lang.c.
-
- (("subject"
- ("windows" -100)
- ("dos" -100))
- (orphan -200)
- (mark-and-expunge -100))
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q2.6 I don't like the default WWW browser
-
- Now when choosing an URL Gnus starts up a W3 buffer, I would like it
- to always use Netscape (I don't browse in text-mode ;-).
-
- You should set your browse-url-browser-function:
- (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-netscape)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q2.9 How can I make favorite authors be highlighted in the Summary
- buffer?
-
- Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
- Just increase their score, and they will be highlighted.
-
- You can increase the score of all articles written by Larry Wall in
- comp.lang.perl by entering the group, find an article written by Larry
- Wall, and type I A (Increase Author) or even better I a s p (Increase
- author by substring permanently). You will be prompted with the
- content of the From header for the current article, so you can edit
- trim string down to just Larry Wall if you want.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q2.10 How do I get multiple .signature files?
-
- Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
-
- (defun my-signature ()
- (cond ((string-match "ding" gnus-newsgroup-name)
- "Signature for Ding")
- ((string-match "^nnml:" gnus-newsgroup-name)
- "Signature for mail groups")
- (t
- "Default signature")))
- (setq message-signature 'my-signature)
-
- You get the idea ...
-
- Jack Vinson <jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu> writes:
- For multiple signature files, I advise the message-insert-signature
- function to set message-signature-file to a random file from my
- signature directory: (I have files that look like sig1 sig2 etc in
- that directory).
-
- ;; random insertion of .signature file
- ;; Thanks to Glenn R Coombs: glenn@prl.philips.co.uk
- (defvar grc-signature-dir "~/.sig/")
- (defvar grc-signature-base "sig")
-
- (defadvice message-insert-signature (before random-mail-sig-ag act comp)
- "Change the value of message-signature-file each time
- `message-insert-signature' is called."
- (let ((files (file-name-all-completions
- grc-signature-base (expand-file-name grc-signature-dir))))
- (if files (let ((file (nth (random (length files)) files)))
- (setq message-signature-file (concat grc-signature-dir file))
- ))))
-
- Ralph Schleicher <rs@purple.UL.BaWue.DE> writes:
- Here's a version which will add a fortune cookie to your .signature.
-
- (setq message-signature 'fortune)
-
- (defvar fortune-program nil
- "*Program used to generate epigrams, default \"fortune\".")
-
- (defvar fortune-switches nil
- "*List of extra arguments when `fortune-program' is invoked.")
-
- (defun fortune (&optional long-p)
- "Generate a random epigram.
- An optional prefix argument generates a long epigram.
- The epigram is inserted at point if called interactively."
- (interactive "*P")
- (let ((fortune-buffer (generate-new-buffer " fortune"))
- (fortune-string "Have an adequate day."))
- (unwind-protect
- (save-excursion
- (set-buffer fortune-buffer)
- (apply 'call-process
- (append (list (or fortune-program "fortune") nil t nil)
- fortune-switches (list (if long-p "-l" "-s"))))
- (skip-chars-backward "\n\t ")
- (setq fortune-string (buffer-substring (point-min) (point))))
- (kill-buffer fortune-buffer))
- (if (interactive-p)
- (insert fortune-string))
- fortune-string))
-
- Bjorn Borud <borud@guardian.no> offers:
-
- (setq message-borud-newsgroup-signature
- '(
- ("^no\\.test$" . "~/.no.test-signatur")
- ("^no\\.irc$" . "~/.no.irc-signature")
- ("^no\\.general" . "~/.no.general-signature")
- ("^no\\.alt\\.frust" . "~/.no.alt.frustrasjoner-signature")
- ("^no\\.alt\\." . "~/.no.alt-signature")
- ("www" . "~/.www-signature")
- ("^no\\." . "~/.no-signature")
- ("^alt\\.irc" . "~/.alt.irc-signature")
- ("^alt\\." . "~/.alt-signature")
- ("^comp\\." . "~/.comp-signature")))
-
- (setq message-borud-default-signature (expand-file-name "~/.signature"))
-
-
- (defun message-borud-signature (group)
- "Find the signature file that applies to the newsgroup
- specified by GROUP. If this file is not found return the
- value of message-borud-default-signature"
- (let ((tmp message-borud-newsgroup-signature))
- (while (and tmp (not (string-match (caar tmp) group)))
- (setq tmp (cdr tmp)))
- (if tmp
- (cdar tmp)
- message-borud-default-signature)))
-
-
- ;;; Standard stuff
-
- (setq message-signature
- (lambda ()
- (progn
- (let
- ((sigfile (message-borud-signature gnus-newsgroup-name)))
- (if (file-exists-p sigfile)
- (save-excursion
- (progn
- (goto-char (point-max))
- (insert "\n\n-- \n")
- (insert-file-contents sigfile)
- (goto-char (point-min)))))))))
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q2.11 Gnus and compression hooks
-
- Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu> writes:
- I just stumbled into a nasty gotcha, a conflict between Gnus (probably
- any version) and any on-the-fly file compression hooks. This morning,
- the code that pulls the system mailbox into a local Incoming file
- created a file called Incominga003.Z. The problem should be apparent:
- the .Z extension gets the file flagged as compressed, so the
- compression code tries to decompress it; since it is not compressed,
- this fails.
-
- The solution: do not allow periods in the pseudo-random Incoming file
- names.
-
- Editor's note: Similar behavior has been observed with jka-compr as
- well.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q2.12 Using Gnus and Other Packages
-
- Kevin J Hilman <khilman@vision.d.umn.edu> writes:
- How do you hook Supercite into September Gnus? Adding sc-cite-original
- to mail-citation-hook works for VM but not Gnus. There must be some
- message-mode hook I can add sc-cite-original to, but I cant seem to
- figure it out.
-
- Steve Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
- You're probably not using gnus-setup.el, but you should. So long as
- you have sgnus as a subdirectory of site-lisp in the standard location
- all you need to do put in your .emacs is:
-
- (setq gnus-use-september t)
- (load "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/sgnus/lisp/gnus-setup.el")
-
- and everything is set up for you.
-
- gnus-setup also handles integration with tm, bbdb, mailcrypt, vm, and
- mh-e. Set these variable to choose exactly what you want:
-
- gnus-use-tm [t]
- Set this if you want MIME support for Gnus
-
- gnus-use-mhe [nil]
- Set this if you want to use MH-E for mail reading
-
- gnus-use-rmail [nil]
- Set this if you want to use RMAIL for mail reading
-
- gnus-use-sendmail [nil]
- Set this if you want to use SENDMAIL for mail reading
-
- gnus-use-vm [nil]
- Set this if you want to use the VM package for mail reading
-
- gnus-use-sc [t]
- Set this if you want to use Supercite
-
- gnus-use-mailcrypt [t]
- Set this if you want to use Mailcrypt for dealing with PGP
- messages
-
- gnus-use-bbdb [nil]
- Set this if you want to use the Big Brother DataBase
-
- gnus-use-september [nil]
- Set this if you are using the experimental September Gnus
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q2.13 Changing Mail and News directories
-
- I don't like the default locations for storing Mail and News how do I
- change them?
-
- The following variables are used at present for News:
- * gnus-article-save-directory
- * gnus-kill-files-directory
-
- Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com> writes
-
- (setq gnus-startup-file "~/.mit-newsrc")
- (setq nnml-directory "~/MITmail/")
- (setq nnmail-crash-box "~/.mit-gnus-crash-box")
- (setq nnml-newsgroups-file
- (concat (file-name-as-directory nnml-directory) "newsgroups"))
-
- (setq gnus-message-archive-method
- '(nnfolder "archive"
- (nnfolder-directory "~/MITmail/archive/")
- (nnfolder-active-file "~/MITmail/archive/active")
- (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil)
- (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t)))
-
- but that's only for mail, not news.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q2.14 Gnus colors have problems with my background.
-
- Gnus colors don't look quite right on my background, and it'll take a
- bit of fiddling to get it right.
-
- Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@aegir.ifi.uio.no> writes:
- It's quite difficult to come up with a set of colors that work with
- the entire range of dark backgrounds. The current defaults seem to
- work quite well on very dark backgrounds (and very light backgrounds),
- but if you use mid-range background colours, you have to do some
- fiddling.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q2.15 How do I customize the Sender: line?
-
- Just change it in the message buffer.
-
- Richard Krehbiel <rich@kastle.com> writes:
- The original poster wants to correct a broken Sender: line. If the
- value that Emacs computes is wrong, (mine is wrong too BTW) then
- making a right one is better, no?
-
- Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
- No. If you think it serves a useful purpose for the user to change the
- value of the Sender field, then you do not understand the purpose of
- that field.
-
- The Sender field contains the following information: The user has
- customized the from address. Here is the original, uncustomized value.
- Thus, if you customize the Sender field in any way, it will be wrong.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q2.16 How do I customize the From: line? (or, how to fix a broken
- Message-ID:)
-
- How do I change the From: line? I have set gnus-user-from-line to Gail
- Gurman <gail.gurman@sybase.com>, but XEmacs Gnus doesn't use it.
- Instead it uses Gail Mara Gurman <gailg@deall> and then complains that
- it's incorrect. Also, as you perhaps can see, my Message-ID is screwy.
- How can I change that?
-
- Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@aegir.ifi.uio.no> writes:
- Set user-mail-address to gail.gurman@sybase.com or mail-host-address
- to sybase.com.
-
- Andre Deparade <deparade@bartok.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> asked:
- What can I do, if I get this 'misconfigured_system_so_shoot_me'
- Message-ID when I try to post something?
-
- The solution is the same as for the above problem. Set either
- user-mail-address or mail-host-address to the correct value.
-
- In Gnus 5.4, the error message was changed to make this fix more
- obvious. The Message-ID, instead of saying that your system is
- misconfigured, will tell you to set mail-host-address.
-
- Please note that this also works with ISO-Latin 1 characters like:
- (setq user-full-name "Finn Hσkansson")
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q2.17 Gnus says my .signature is too long and it isn't
-
- Check for blank lines at the end. Blank lines count as well.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q2.18 What replaces gnus-author-copy?
-
- The BCC: or Fcc: field still works:
- (setq message-default-headers "Fcc: ~/spool/sent.spool\n")
- (setq message-default-mail-headers "Fcc: ~/spool/sent-mail.spool\n")
- (setq message-default-news-headers "Fcc: ~/spool/sent-news.spool\n")
-
- Replace Fcc: with Bcc: if you wish.
-
- Another possibility is to use the Gcc: header:
- (setq gnus-message-archive-method
- `(nnfolder
- "archive"
- (nnfolder-directory ,(nnheader-concat message-directory "archive"))
- (nnfolder-active-file
- ,(nnheader-concat message-directory "archive/active"))
- (nnfolder-get-new-mail nil)
- (nnfolder-inhibit-expiry t)))
-
- (setq gnus-message-archive-group
- '((if (message-news-p) "misc-news" "misc-mail")))
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q2.19 How do I launch Netscape when clicking on an URL?
-
- New versions of Gnus use the browse-url package when you click a URL
- button. See the question on changing your default browser to alter its
- behavior.
-
- If you want something a bit faster, get Jamie Zawinsky's
- netscape-remote program, found at
- <URL:http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/remote.c>. You then need to
- tell browse-url to use this instead of netscape:
-
- (setq browse-url-browser-program "netscape-remote")
-
- For those using NT, Harald Backer <harald.backer@fou.telenor.no>
- supplies his setup:
-
- (setq browse-url-browser-function
- ;; No window system at build time, ie. site-start.el, ~/.emacs
- ;; or ~/.gnus
- (if window-system
- (if (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
- 'shell-execute-url
- 'browse-url-netscape) ; or browse-url-mosaic
- 'browse-url-w3))
-
- (defun shell-execute-url (url &optional new-window)
- "Invoke the shell-execute-helper program to call ShellExecute and launch
- or re-direct a web browser on the specified url."
- (interactive "sURL: ")
- (call-process shell-execute-helper nil nil nil url))
-
- Also see <URL:http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html>
- for shell-execute-helper and other NT related stuff.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q2.20 Could I see someone else's ~/.gnus file?
-
- You sure can, thanks to David Lebel. He has made a collection of
- ~/.gnus files available at <URL:http://superdave.socom.com/gnus/>. To
- submit yours to his collection, mail it to dotgnus@socom.com.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q2.21 How do I use different headers for mail than for news?
-
- Check out the variables 'message-default-news-headers' and
- 'message-default-mail-headers'. That is exactly what these variables
- are for.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- 3. Reading News
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q3.1 How do I convert my kill files to score files?
-
- A kill-to-score translator was written by Ethan Bradford
- <ethanb@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu>. It is available from
- <URL:http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/ding-various/gnus-kill-to-score.el>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q3.2 My news server has a lot of groups, and killing groups is
- painfully slow.
-
- Don't do that then. The best way to get rid of groups that should be
- dead is to edit your newsrc directly. This problem will be addressed
- in the near future.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q3.3 How do I use an NNTP server with authentication?
-
- Put the following into your .gnus:
- (add-hook 'nntp-server-opened-hook 'nntp-send-authinfo)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q3.4 Not reading the first article.
-
- How do I avoid reading the first article when a group is selected?
- 1. Use RET to select the group instead of SPC.
- 2. (setq gnus-auto-select-first nil)
- 3. elf@mailhost.ee.ryerson.ca (Luis Fernandes) writes:
-
- This is what I use...customize as necessary...
-
- ;;; Don't auto-select first article if reading sources, or archives or
- ;;; jobs postings, etc. and just display the summary buffer
- (add-hook 'gnus-select-group-hook
- (function
- (lambda ()
- (cond ((string-match "sources" gnus-newsgroup-name)
- (setq gnus-auto-select-first nil))
- ((string-match "jobs" gnus-newsgroup-name)
- (setq gnus-auto-select-first nil))
- ((string-match "comp\\.archives" gnus-newsgroup-name)
- (setq gnus-auto-select-first nil))
- ((string-match "reviews" gnus-newsgroup-name)
- (setq gnus-auto-select-first nil))
- ((string-match "announce" gnus-newsgroup-name)
- (setq gnus-auto-select-first nil))
- ((string-match "binaries" gnus-newsgroup-name)
- (setq gnus-auto-select-first nil))
- (t
- (setq gnus-auto-select-first t))))))
- 4. abraham@dina.kvl.dk (Per Abrahamsen) writes:
- Another possibility is to create an `all.binaries.all.SCORE' file
- like this:
-
- ((local
- (gnus-auto-select-first nil)))
-
- and insert
-
- (setq gnus-auto-select-first t)
- in your .gnus.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q3.5 Why aren't BBDB known posters marked in the summary buffer?
-
- Brian Edmonds <edmonds@cs.ubc.ca> writes:
- Due to changes in Gnus 5.0, bbdb-gnus.el no longer marks known posters
- in the summary buffer. An updated version, gnus-bbdb.el is available
- at the locations listed below. This package also supports autofiling
- of incoming mail to folders specified in the BBDB. Extensive
- instructions are included as comments in the file.
-
- * send mail to <URL:mailto: majordomo@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca> with
- the following line in the body of the message: get misc
- gnus-bbdb.el.
- * Or get it from the World Wide Web:
- <URL:http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds/usenet/gnus/gnus-bbdb.el>
- .
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q3.6 Cross posted articles aren't marked as read
-
- Ralf Helbing <helbing@monet.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> writes:
- Why do cross posted articles appear in every group they were posted to
- instead of only the first one? In other words: how can I have them
- marked as read in the current group if I read them already in another
- group?
-
- Gnus will read news overview files to build its article lists for a
- group. An (unfortunately) optional field contains information about
- where an article is crossposted to. If this is disabled, then Gnus
- will not be able to properly deal with crossposts.
-
- Get your system administrator to enable Xref in the news overview
- files.
-
- Failing that, if you add
- (setq nntp-nov-is-evil t)
-
- to your .gnus, Gnus will do The Right Thing with respect to cross
- posts at the cost of slower group entry and exit.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q3.7 How do I read already read messages?
-
- Francesco Potort∞ <pot@cnuce.cnr.it> writes:
- Just use C-u SPC or C-u RET for entering the group.
-
- Gnus 5.4 has a more convenient mechanism whereby you can mark
- individual groups so that they will always show previously read mail
- with:
-
- (display . all)
-
- in the group parameters.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q3.8 Evil nntp
-
- Yair Friedman <yair@cs.huji.ac.il> writes:
- Does anyone has experience with setting nntp-nov-is-evil to t? What
- exactly will I gain or lose by setting this variable?
-
- Setting this variable only makes sense if netnews is set up on your
- system to not provide XREF (cross reference information) in the
- overview files Gnus reads to build group summaries.
-
- A quick test to see if you need to use it is this (substitute your
- nntp server, and use the last number returned on the 211 line as the
- parameter to XOVER):
- (Example courtesy of Christopher Davis <ckd@loiosh.kei.com>).
-
- $ telnet news.somewhere.com nntp
- LIST overview.fmt
-
- You should see something like the following (on INN systems anyway):
-
- 215 Order of fields in overview database.
- Subject:
- From:
- Date:
- Message-ID:
- References:
- Bytes:
- Lines:
- Xref:full
-
- If the Xref:full is missing, ask your news administrator to add it in.
-
- Assuming you have a broken newsfeed, you gain by setting
- nntp-nov-is-evil the ability for Gnus to mark all crossposted articles
- as read the first time you see them. Otherwise, every crossposted
- article is spam, and you see it over and over again if you also read
- the other groups it is crossposted to.
-
- You lose the ability to have Gnus fill in old headers to flesh
- partially read threads with old articles. This may not matter a whole
- lot if expiration times are short. Building group summaries is also
- somewhat slower, though if your network connection to the news server
- is decent this isn't a huge loss.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- 4. Reading Mail
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q4.1 What does the message Buffer has changed on disk mean in a mail
- group?
-
- Your filter program should not deliver mail directly to your folders,
- instead it should put the mail into spool files. Gnus will then move
- the mail safely from the spool files into the folders. This will
- eliminate the problem. Look it up in the manual, in the section
- entitled "Mail & Procmail".
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q4.2 How do you make articles un-expirable?
-
- I am using nnml to read news and have used
- gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups to automagically expire articles in
- some groups (Gnus being one of them). Sometimes there are interesting
- articles in these groups that I want to keep. Is there any way of
- explicitly marking an article as un-expirable - that is mark it as
- read but not expirable?
-
- Use ``u'', ``!'', `d' or `M-u' in the summary buffer. You just remove
- the `E' mark by setting some other mark. It's not necessary to tick
- the articles.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q4.3 How do I delete bogus nnml: groups?
-
- My problem is that I have various mail (nnml) groups generated while
- experimenting with Gnus. How do I remove them now? Setting the level
- to 9 does not help. Also gnus-group-check-bogus-groups does not
- recognize them.
-
- Removing mail groups is tricky in Gnusae prior to 5.4.x. You basically
- have to kill the groups in Gnus, shut down Gnus, edit the active file
- to exclude these groups, and probably remove the nnml directories that
- contained these groups as well. Then start Gnus back up again.
-
- In Gnus 5.4.x, just press
- G DEL
-
- to remove the mail group.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q4.4 What happened to my new mail groups?
-
- I got new mail, but I have never seen the groups they should have been
- placed in.
-
- They are probably there, but as zombies. Press `A z' to list zombie
- groups, and then subscribe to the groups you want with `u'. This is
- all documented quite nicely in the user's manual.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q4.5 Not scoring mail groups
-
- How do you totally turn off scoring in mail groups?
-
- Use an nnbabyl:all.SCORE (or nnmh, or nnml, or whatever) file
- containing:
-
- ((adapt ignore)
- (local (gnus-use-scoring nil))
- (exclude-files "all.SCORE"))
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q4.6 How to keep groups always visible
-
- How do you keep groups always visible in the Group buffer, whether or
- not they have any new articles in them?
-
- Either write a regexp matching the desired groups and place it in
- gnus-permanently-visible-groups, or set the visible group parameter.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q4.7 Group renumbering
-
- Thomas Larsen <lath@interlink.no> writes:
- I'm usinge the nnml backend to read my mail. To get rid of read mail,
- I either expire the article or use B DEL. When I have received more
- than 200 articles in a nnml group, I get prompted for how many
- articles to show when entering it. The problem is that there are only
- about 20 articles present in the group and it's quite annoying to get
- prompted for this every time. Is there a way to fix this without
- setting gnus-large-group to something very high? Can you somehow
- renumber the articles in a group? I'm using Gnus 5.2.1.
-
- Colin Rafferty <craffert@spspme.ml.com> writes:
- Yes.
-
- Enter the group, mark all articles, and then move them all to the
- current group. If they were spread out between 1 and 200, they will
- now all be numbered consecutively starting at 201.
-
- In response to the further question: Can this be done without breaking
- the xref info?
- Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
- Well -- if these are Xreffed from a different group, this'll break the
- Xref info in the other groups. That is, if you (after renumbering the
- articles) read the articles in a different group, they won't be marked
- as read in the renumbered group.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q4.8 Procmail and Gnus
-
- Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> writes:
- With procmail, you cannot write directly into the nnml directories.
- You must create spool files that will be merged into the nnml
- directories at times of Gnus' choosing. Asynch delivery just isn't in
- the cards.
-
- I just posted my setup a week ago. Here it is one more time:
- (setq
- gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml ""))
- nnmail-use-procmail t
- nnmail-spool-file 'procmail ; same as nnmail-use-procmail :-)
- nnmail-procmail-directory "~/.incoming/"
- nnmail-delete-incoming t
- )
-
- And then I have procmail deliver to ~/.incoming/inbox.spool and
- ~/.incoming/list.traffic.spool and so on. The name before .spool
- becomes the nnml: folder in which the stuff will end up.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q4.9 Getting new mail, but not new news
-
- The standard technique is to place all your mail groups at levels 1 or
- level 2. Then you can do a 2 g, or 1 g which will then only fetch new
- mail and not bother with new news.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q4.10 Why can't I move articles?
-
- Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
- Occasionally I get the message "Can't move article!", when I attempt
- to move an article from one nnml group to another, using
-
- B m
-
- in the summary buffer. Other articles can be moved without problem (on
- a set of process marked articles, some are moved, others are left
- untouched).
-
- Yair Friedman <yfriedma@JohnBryce.Co.Il> suggests:
- What is the value of nnmail-keep-last-article? If it is t and the
- article is last in the group, you can't move it.
-
- To this, Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> adds:
- You should add that nnmail-keep-last-article can be set specifically
- for single groups, in the Group Parameters of that group. (ie. if the
- global setting is t, you can set it to nil for one particular group,
- by putting
-
- (nnmail-keep-last-article nil)
-
- in group parameters
- G p
-
- in the *Group* buffer. (It may work the other way around as well, but
- I haven't actually _verified_ that setting it to t in Group
- Parameters, will make it leave the last article, when expiring))
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q4.11 Using Gnus for mail and never news
-
- Sam Falkner <samf@beehive.frii.com> writes:
- I'd like to use gnus to do my email at work, without doing usenet news
- *at all*.
-
- Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@prescienttech.com> responds:
- Change your primary select method to your mail backend:
-
-
- (setq gnus-select-method '(nnml ""))
- (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods nil)
-
- Has been working fine for me since, oh, half way through the (ding)
- development cycle.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q4.12 Compressed mail files
-
- Piotr Pogorzelski <piotr.pogorzelski@ippt.gov.pl> writes:
- Is it possible to have nnml files compressed on disk and decompress
- them on-the-fly for reading ?
-
- Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@trym.ifi.uio.no> replies:
- Yes. Just gzip the files. You'll need to say `(require 'jka-compr)' in
- your .emacs, though.
-
- Note: this only works in Red Gnus (Gnus 5.4) and later.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q4.13 Using an IMAP server
-
- I want to use Gnus to read messages on an IMAP server.
-
- Current versions of Gnus do not have any IMAP capability. However, it
- is planned that nnimap will be working in qgnus. The current version
- of the nnimap code is available, but is very alpha. Do not bother to
- download this unless you are an experienced programmer who would like
- to work on it.
- It can be found at <URL:ftp://naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu/pub/nnimap>
-
- John Prevost <visigoth@cs.cmu.edu> is the person who is maintaining
- this;you should speak with him if you wish to contribute to nnimap.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q4.14 How do I get mail from multiple sources?
-
- I want to get mail from both my local spool directory and from a POP
- server. What do I do?
-
- Just set nnmail-spool-file to a list of your mail sources. For
- example,
-
- (setq nnmail-spool-file '("/var/spool/mail/dworkin" "po:dworkin"))
-
- note: The POP part of this example will work with the external
- movemail program, but not with Gnus' built-in pop3 library.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Q4.15 Can I read mail that was delivered by qmail?
-
- Gnus does not yet have support for directly interacting with qmail
- Maildirs, but there are ways to make Gnus peacefully coexist with
- qmail.
-
- Frank Cringle <fdc@cliwe.ping.de> writes:
- Qmail's suggested default configuration delivers into a Mailbox (mbox)
- file in the user's home directory. You can request delivery to a
- Maildir instead, but that does not seem to be much use for gnus users.
- I just let qmail put new mail into ~/Mailbox and tell gnus to pick up
- the mail from there:
- (setq nnmail-spool-file "/home/fdc/Mailbox")
-
- Ezio Manini <manini@piw.it> adds:
- For the correct mail envelope (e.g. bouncing mail) I use:
- (setq message-send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-qmail)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- This FAQ is Copyright ⌐ 1995, 1996 Free Software Foundation. Please
- send comments, and suggestions to Justin Sheehy
- <URL:mailto:dworkin@ccs.neu.edu>.
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