* Gnus (Emacs Newsreader) FAQ
@ 1996-11-20 3:36 Steven L Baur
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Archive-name: gnus-faq
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Last-modified: Nov 19 16:54 PST 1996
URL: http://www.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html
[This is a special edition of the Gnus FAQ, as this is the very last
one I'll be posting. The next editor will be Justin Sheehy
<dworkin@ccs.neu.edu>. My heartfelt thanks go out to the others who
offered to take the FAQ on. I'll be mirroring Justin's work as soon
as the changeover is completed, so old URL pointers will still work
for awhile.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who ever
emailed me a suggestion for new material, or who sent in corrections.
All input was appreciated. If the FAQ has been useful to people, it
has been due to all the good input I got from the emacs community over
the past year or so while compiling it.
I'd like to offer special thanks to Per Abrahamsen
<abraham@dina.kvl.dk>, who provided much needed guidance throughout
the early going when I needed it the most.
I'm not leaving my current job, nor am I leaving the Usenet emacs
newsgroups and abandoning emacs & Gnus in case anyone was wondering. -sb]
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.
If you have a Web browser, the official hypertext version is at:
<URL:http://www.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html>. 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
(Steve Baur's) fault, sorry.
What's changed since last time?
1. Added a question regarding counting lines in the .signature.
2. Updated some of the ftp mirror locations.
This file was last modified on November 16, 1996.
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Subject: Table Of Contents
1. Installation
+ Q1.1 What is the latest version? [updated]
+ Q1.2 Where do I get Gnus?
+ 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? [updated]
+ Q1.8 What resources are available?
+ Q1.9 Gnus hangs on connecting to NNTP server.
+ Q1.10 Mailcrypt 3.4 doesn't work [updated]
+ Q1.11 What other packages can I use with Gnus? [updated]
+ Q1.12 How do I make Gnus start faster? [updated]
+ 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? [new]
2. Customizing Gnus
+ Q2.2 How do I quote messages?
+ Q2.4 Any suggestions for all.SCORE?
+ Q2.5 How do I use yank-through when replying?
+ Q2.6 I don't like the default WWW browser
+ Q2.9 Increasing score of favorite authors.
+ Q2.10 Multiple .signatures. [updated]
+ 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?
+ Q2.17 Gnus says my .signature is too long and it isn't
+ Q2.18 What replaces gnus-author-copy? [updated]
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? [updated]
+ 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? [updated]
+ Q4.7 Group renumbering
+ Q4.8 Procmail and Gnus [new]
+ Q4.9 Getting new mail, but not new news [new]
_________________________________________________________________
1. Installation
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.1 What is the latest version of Gnus? [updated]
There are many different versions of Gnus available now. The latest
(and greatest) general version is 5.2.40. While in alpha testing it
was called September 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. Gnus 5.0.15 is the most recent version that
will work with old emacsen like XEmacs 19.13.
Gnus 5.2.25 is included standard with XEmacs 19.14.
Red Gnus is the latest developmental version, and will have version
numbers of 5.4 & 5.5 when released. It has lots of new stuff in it,
including new backends for using search engines like Dejanews as a
source of articles. Since it's developmental code, do not expect it to
be stable.
As of October 17, Red Gnus is in feature freeze, and the expected
release date of Gnus 5.4 is late December.
The next experimental version of Gnus has been named Mamey Sapote
Gnus. If you really want to know why, take a look at
<URL:http://www.miranova.com/~steve/why-mamey-sapote.html>.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.2 Where do I get Gnus?
The latest version is available via anonymous FTP or
<URL:ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/emacs/gnus/gnus.tar.gz>. You can also
fetch it from the North American mirrors:
<URL:ftp://ftp.miranova.com/pub/gnus/ifi.uio.no/>,
<URL:ftp://aphrodite.nectar.cs.cmu.edu/pub/ding-gnus/> or
<URL:ftp://ftp.statsci.com/pub/users/scott/ding-gnus/>. The last site
should only be used as a last resort.
Or, get it from the South American mirror:
<URL:ftp://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/news.software/gnus/>.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.3 Which version of Emacs do I need? [updated]
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 19.14 or later.
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.
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Subject: Q1.6 How do I unsubscribe from the Mailing List?
Send an e-mail message to <URL:mailto:ding-request@ifi.uio.no> 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? [updated]
You don't. Gnus is distributed with both emacsen, use the version of
Gnus that comes with your emacs.
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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@ifi.uio.no 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.
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.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/ding.html>. A Gnus tips page exists
at
<URL:http://www.fuentez.com/public-info/ding/ding.html>.
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. The canonical
source is in Norway at
<URL:http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/ding-manual/gnus_toc.html>
There are three mirrors in the United States:
<URL:http://www.c2.org/~mrblond/gnus/>
<URL:http://www.miranova.com/gnus-man/>
<URL:http://www.rtd.com/~woo/gnus/>
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.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html>. Off-line formats
are also available:
ASCII: <URL:ftp://ftp.miranova.com/pub/gnus/gnus-faq>.
PostScript: <URL:ftp://ftp.miranova.com/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 [updated]
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.
------------------------------
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://ftp.miranova.com/pub/gnus/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.
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 September 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. BBDB can 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? [updated]
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 Potortì <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.
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Subject: Q1.13 I've upgraded to 5.2 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? [new]
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
`mail-indentation-spaces' spaces or `mail-yank-prefix' if that is
non-nil, unless you have set your own `mail-citation-hook', 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.
------------------------------
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@illusion.apk.net>
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))
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Subject: Q2.5 What do I use to yank-through when replying?
You should probably reply and followup with R and F, instead of r and
f, which solves your problem. But you could try something like:
(defconst mail-yank-ignored-headers
"^.*:"
"Delete these headers from old message when it's inserted in a reply.")
------------------------------
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 ;-).
1. Activate `Customize...' from the `Help' menu.
2. Scroll down to the `WWW Browser' field.
3. Click `mouse-2' on `WWW Browser'.
4. Select `Netscape' from the pop up menu.
5. Press `C-c C-c'
That's it.
If you are using XEmacs then to specify Netscape do
(setq gnus-button-url 'gnus-netscape-open-url)
------------------------------
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))
------------------------------
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?
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.
Please note that this also works with ISO-Latin 1 characters like:
(setq user-full-name "Finn Håkansson")
------------------------------
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? [updated]
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")))
_________________________________________________________________
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 Potortì <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 at the moment. (It's on the to-do list,
though.) 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.
------------------------------
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 [updated]
How do you keep groups always visible in the Group buffer, whether or
not they have any new articles in them?
There is no magic command right now. 5l will list all subscribed
groups. This list will get compacted the next time you issue a g
command though.
Another trick which almost works is to make sure that you mark an
article with ! in every group you want to keep visible. While this
works, entering the group with something like M-5 SPC is no longer as
convenient.
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
I've added a gnus-permanently-visible-groups regexp variable to match
groups that should always be shown, no matter whether there are unread
articles in the groups or not. I've also added a visible group
parameter that will have the same effect.
------------------------------
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 [new]
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 [new]
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.
_________________________________________________________________
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send comments, and suggestions to Steve Baur
<URL:mailto:steve@miranova.com>.
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* Gnus (Emacs Newsreader) FAQ
@ 1996-08-20 4:33 Steven L Baur
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From: Steven L Baur @ 1996-08-20 4:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
Archive-name: gnus-faq
Posting-frequency: monthly (on or about the 19th)
Last-modified: Aug 19 19:30 PST 1996
URL: http://www.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html
[Very few changes this month, other than the addition of new mirrors
to find Gnus sources. The Gnus 5.0 stuff in here is getting pretty
dated. Is anybody still using 5.0? -sb]
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 5 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.
If you have a Web browser, the official hypertext version is at:
<URL:http://www.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html>. 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
(Steve Baur's) fault, sorry.
What's changed since last time?
1. Added a question regarding counting lines in the .signature.
2. Updated some of the ftp mirror locations.
This file was last modified on August 19, 1996.
------------------------------
Subject: Table Of Contents
1. Installation
+ Q1.1 What is the latest version?
+ Q1.2 Where do I get Gnus?
+ Q1.3 What Emacs versions are required?
+ Q1.4 Where is timezone.el?
+ Q1.5 I get weird messages when running under XEmacs 19.13.
+ 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?
+ 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? [New!]
2. Customizing Gnus
+ Q2.1 Custom doesn't work under XEmacs
+ Q2.2 How do I quote messages?
+ Q2.4 Any suggestions for all.SCORE?
+ Q2.5 How do I use yank-through when replying?
+ Q2.6 I don't like the default WWW browser
+ Q2.8 Moving between groups is slow.
+ 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?
+ Q2.17 Gnus says my .signature is too long and it isn't [New!]
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
_________________________________________________________________
1. Installation
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.1 What is the latest version of Gnus?
There are many different versions of Gnus available now. The latest
(and greatest) general version is 5.2.39. While in alpha testing it
was called September 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.
Gnus 5.2.25 is included standard with XEmacs 19.14.
Red Gnus is the latest developmental version, and will have version
numbers of 5.4 & 5.5 when released. It has lots of new stuff in it,
including new backends for using search engines like Dejanews as a
source of articles. Since it's developmental code, do not expect it to
be stable.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.2 Where do I get Gnus?
The latest version is available via anonymous FTP or
<URL:ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/emacs/gnus/gnus.tar.gz>. You can also
fetch it from the North American mirrors:
<URL:ftp://ftp.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/>,
<URL:http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/>,
<URL:gopher://gopher.pilgrim.umass.edu/11/pub/misc/ding/>,
<URL:ftp://ftp.miranova.com/pub/gnus/ifi.uio.no/>,
<URL:ftp://aphrodite.nectar.cs.cmu.edu/pub/ding-gnus/> or
<URL:ftp://ftp.statsci.com/pub/users/scott/ding-gnus/>. The last site
should only be used as a last resort.
------------------------------
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 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: Q1.4 Where is timezone.el?
Upgrade to XEmacs 19.13. In earlier versions of XEmacs this file was
placed with Gnus 4.1.3, but that has been corrected.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.5 When I run Gnus on XEmacs 19.13 I get weird error messages.
You're running an old version of Gnus. Upgrade to at least version
5.0.4.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.6 How do I unsubscribe from the Mailing List?
Send an e-mail message to <URL:mailto:ding-request@ifi.uio.no> 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?
The basic answer is to byte-compile under XEmacs, and then you can run
under either Emacsen. There is, however, a potential version problem
with easymenu.el with Gnu Emacs prior to 19.29.
Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes :
The internal easymenu.el interface changed between 19.28 and 19.29 in
order to make it possible to create byte compiled files that can be
shared between Gnu Emacs and XEmacs. The change is upward compatible,
but not downward compatible. This gives the following compatibility
table:
Compiled with: | Can be used with:
----------------+--------------------------------------
19.28 | 19.28 19.29
19.29 | 19.29 XEmacs
XEmacs | 19.29 XEmacs
If you have Gnu Emacs 19.28 or earlier, or XEmacs 19.12 or earlier,
get a recent version of auc-menu.el from
<URL:ftp://ftp.iesd.auc.dk/pub/emacs-lisp/auc-menu.el> and install it
under the name easymenu.el somewhere early in your load path.
------------------------------
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@ifi.uio.no 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.
This mailing list is now mirrored on the World Wide Web at
<URL:http://www.miranova.com/gnus-list/>. The archives date back to
mid August, are separated by month for access speed, and were
assembled with the Hypermail 1.02 utility.
Gnus has a home World Wide Web page at
<URL:http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/ding.html>. A Gnus tips page exists
at
<URL:http://www.fuentez.com/public-info/ding/ding.html>.
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. The canonical
source is in Norway at
<URL:http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/ding-manual/gnus_toc.html>
There are four mirrors in the United States:
<URL:http://www.c2.org/~mrblond/gnus/>
<URL:http://www.miranova.com/gnus-man/>
<URL:http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/manual/gnus_toc.html>
<URL:http://www.rtd.com/~woo/gnus/>
PostScript copies of the Gnus Reference card are available from
<URL:ftp://ftp.cs.ualberta.ca/pub/oolog/gnus/>. They are mirrored at
<URL:ftp://ftp.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/refcard/>. In the
United States. And
<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.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html>. Off-line formats
are also available:
ASCII: <URL:ftp://ftp.miranova.com/pub/gnus/gnus-faq>.
PostScript: <URL:ftp://ftp.miranova.com/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
Is Gnus in your load-path?
Patrick LoPresti <patl@lcs.mit.edu > writes :
Note that this is not a bug in either Gnus or Mailcrypt; you cannot
expect any file to byte-compile correctly if required packages are not
in your load path. (Or, worse, if a completely different version of
the package is in the load path at compile-time than at run-time.)
Moreover, this need is documented in the Mailcrypt INSTALL file, so
the problem is really just a failure to follow directions...
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.11 What other packages work with Gnus?
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://ftp.miranova.com/pub/gnus/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).
To use with Gnus add the line
(load "mime-setup")
to your .gnus file.
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 September 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. BBDB can 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?
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 Potortì <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 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).
_________________________________________________________________
2. Customizing Gnus
------------------------------
Subject: Q2.1 Custom Edit does not work under XEmacs
Please upgrade to Gnus 5.2, where it does work.
------------------------------
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
`mail-indentation-spaces' spaces or `mail-yank-prefix' if that is
non-nil, unless you have set your own `mail-citation-hook', 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.
------------------------------
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@illusion.apk.net>
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: Q2.5 What do I use to yank-through when replying?
You should probably reply and followup with R and F, instead of r and
f, which solves your problem. But you could try something like:
(defconst mail-yank-ignored-headers
"^.*:"
"Delete these headers from old message when it's inserted in a reply.")
------------------------------
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 ;-).
1. Activate `Customize...' from the `Help' menu.
2. Scroll down to the `WWW Browser' field.
3. Click `mouse-2' on `WWW Browser'.
4. Select `Netscape' from the pop up menu.
5. Press `C-c C-c'
That's it.
If you are using XEmacs then to specify Netscape do
(setq gnus-button-url 'gnus-netscape-open-url)
------------------------------
Subject: Q2.8 Moving between groups is slow.
Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
Do you call define-key or something like that in one of the summary
mode hooks? This would force Emacs to recalculate the keyboard
shortcuts.
Removing the call should speed up M-x gnus-summary-mode RET by a
couple of orders of magnitude. You can use
(define-key gnus-summary-mode-map KEY COMMAND)
in your .gnus instead.
------------------------------
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))
))))
------------------------------
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:BR> 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?
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.
------------------------------
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.
_________________________________________________________________
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 Potorti` <pot@cnuce.cnr.it> writes: Just use C-u SPC or C-u
RET for entering the group.
------------------------------
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 at the moment. (It's on the to-do list,
though.) 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.
------------------------------
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?
There is no magic command right now. 5l will list all subscribed
groups. This list will get compacted the next time you issue a g
command though.
Another trick which almost works is to make sure that you mark an
article with ! in every group you want to keep visible. While this
works, entering the group with something like M-5 SPC is no longer as
convenient.
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
Ok. I'll be adding a gnus-permanently-visible-groups regexp variable
to match groups that should always be shown, no matter whether there
are unread articles in the groups or not. I'll also be adding a
visible group parameter that will have the same effect.
------------------------------
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.
_________________________________________________________________
This FAQ is Copyright © 1995, 1996 Free Software Foundation. Please
send comments, and suggestions to Steve Baur
<URL:mailto:steve@miranova.com>.
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Archive-name: gnus-faq
Posting-frequency: monthly (on or about the 19th)
Last-modified: Jul 14 08:42 PST 1996
URL: http://www.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html
[XEmacs 19.14 has arrived. Marker doesn't point anywhere is a
bug in line-number-mode not Gnus. If you have a misconfigured site,
`so-shoot-me' see Q2.16. -sb]
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 5 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.
If you have a Web browser, the official hypertext version is at:
<URL:http://www.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html>. 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
(Steve Baur's) fault, sorry.
What's changed since last time?
Added a question regarding the Sender: header. Added a question about
specifying where to find News, added a question about setting the
From: line.
This file was last modified on July 14, 1996.
------------------------------
Subject: Table Of Contents
1. Installation
+ Q1.1 What is the latest version?
+ Q1.2 Where do I get Gnus?
+ Q1.3 What Emacs versions are required?
+ Q1.4 Where is timezone.el?
+ Q1.5 I get weird messages when running under XEmacs 19.13.
+ 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?
+ 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? [New!]
2. Customizing Gnus
+ Q2.1 Custom doesn't work under XEmacs
+ Q2.2 How do I quote messages?
+ Q2.4 Any suggestions for all.SCORE?
+ Q2.5 How do I use yank-through when replying?
+ Q2.6 I don't like the default WWW browser
+ Q2.8 Moving between groups is slow.
+ 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? [New!]
+ Q2.16 How do I customize the From: line? [New!]
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
_________________________________________________________________
1. Installation
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.1 What is the latest version of Gnus?
There are many different versions of Gnus available now. The latest
(and greatest) general version is 5.2.37. While in alpha testing it
was called September 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 5.2.26 aka Gnus 5.3 is
included in Emacs 19.32.
Gnus 5.2.25 is included standard with XEmacs 19.14.
Plans for the next version are already underway. It has been codenamed
Red Gnus, and will have a version number of 5.4 & 5.5 when released.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.2 Where do I get Gnus?
The latest version is available via anonymous FTP or <URL:
ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/emacs/gnus/gnus.tar.gz>. You can also fetch
it from the North American mirrors:
<URL:ftp://ftp.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/>,
<URL:http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/>,
<URL:gopher://gopher.pilgrim.umass.edu/11/pub/misc/ding/>, or
<URL:ftp://aphrodite.nectar.cs.cmu.edu/pub/ding-gnus/> or
<URL:ftp://ftp.statsci.com/pub/users/scott/ding-gnus/>. The last site
should only be used as a last resort.
------------------------------
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 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: Q1.4 Where is timezone.el?
Upgrade to XEmacs 19.13. In earlier versions of XEmacs this file was
placed with Gnus 4.1.3, but that has been corrected.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.5 When I run Gnus on XEmacs 19.13 I get weird error messages.
You're running an old version of Gnus. Upgrade to at least version
5.0.4.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.6 How do I unsubscribe from the Mailing List?
Send an e-mail message to <URL: mailto:ding-request@ifi.uio.no> 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?
The basic answer is to byte-compile under XEmacs, and then you can run
under either Emacsen. There is, however, a potential version problem
with easymenu.el with Gnu Emacs prior to 19.29.
Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes :
The internal easymenu.el interface changed between 19.28 and 19.29 in
order to make it possible to create byte compiled files that can be
shared between Gnu Emacs and XEmacs. The change is upward compatible,
but not downward compatible. This gives the following compatibility
table:
Compiled with: | Can be used with:
----------------+--------------------------------------
19.28 | 19.28 19.29
19.29 | 19.29 XEmacs
XEmacs | 19.29 XEmacs
If you have Gnu Emacs 19.28 or earlier, or XEmacs 19.12 or earlier,
get a recent version of auc-menu.el from
<URL: ftp://ftp.iesd.auc.dk/pub/emacs-lisp/auc-menu.el> and install it
under the name easymenu.el somewhere early in your load path.
------------------------------
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@ifi.uio.no 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.
This mailing list is now mirrored on the World Wide Web at
<URL: http://www.miranova.com/gnus-list/>. The archives date back to
mid August, are separated by month for access speed, and were
assembled with the Hypermail 1.02 utility.
Gnus has a home World Wide Web page at
<URL: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/ding.html>. A Gnus tips page exists
at
<URL: http://www.fuentez.com/public-info/ding/ding.html>.
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. The canonical
source is in Norway at
<URL: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/ding-manual/gnus_toc.html>
There are four mirrors in the United States:
<URL: http://www.c2.org/~mrblond/gnus/>
<URL: http://www.miranova.com/gnus-man/>
<URL: http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/manual/gnus_toc.html>
<URL: http://www.rtd.com/~woo/gnus/>
PostScript copies of the Gnus Reference card are available from
<URL: ftp://ftp.cs.ualberta.ca/pub/oolog/gnus/>. They are mirrored at
<URL: ftp://ftp.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/refcard/>. In the
United States. And
<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.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html>. Off-line formats
are also available:
ASCII: <URL: ftp://ftp.miranova.com/pub/gnus/gnus-faq>.
PostScript: <URL: ftp://ftp.miranova.com/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
Is Gnus in your load-path?
Patrick LoPresti <patl@lcs.mit.edu > writes :
Note that this is not a bug in either Gnus or Mailcrypt; you cannot
expect any file to byte-compile correctly if required packages are not
in your load path. (Or, worse, if a completely different version of
the package is in the load path at compile-time than at run-time.)
Moreover, this need is documented in the Mailcrypt INSTALL file, so
the problem is really just a failure to follow directions...
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.11 What other packages work with Gnus?
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), and
<URL: ftp://ftp.nisiq.net/pub/gnu/emacs-lisp/tm/> (USA).
Be sure to apply the supplied patch. It works with Gnus through
version 5.0.15 and September Gnus. In order for all dependencies to
work correctly the load sequence is as follows:
(load "tm-setup")
(load "gnus")
(load "mime-compose")
In September Gnus, gnus-setup.el automates this task, and there is no
special patch to apply.
Caveat Emptor: Loading the package disables citation highlighting by
default. To get the old behavior back, use the M-t command.
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 September 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. BBDB can 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?
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 Potortì <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 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).
_________________________________________________________________
2. Customizing Gnus
------------------------------
Subject: Q2.1 Custom Edit does not work under XEmacs
Please upgrade to Gnus 5.2, where it does work.
------------------------------
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
`mail-indentation-spaces' spaces or `mail-yank-prefix' if that is
non-nil, unless you have set your own `mail-citation-hook', 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.
------------------------------
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@illusion.apk.net>
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: Q2.5 What do I use to yank-through when replying?
You should probably reply and followup with R and F, instead of r and
f, which solves your problem. But you could try something like:
(defconst mail-yank-ignored-headers
"^.*:"
"Delete these headers from old message when it's inserted in a reply.")
------------------------------
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 ;-).
1. Activate `Customize...' from the `Help' menu.
2. Scroll down to the `WWW Browser' field.
3. Click `mouse-2' on `WWW Browser'.
4. Select `Netscape' from the pop up menu.
5. Press `C-c C-c'
That's it.
If you are using XEmacs then to specify Netscape do
(setq gnus-button-url 'gnus-netscape-open-url)
------------------------------
Subject: Q2.8 Moving between groups is slow.
Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
Do you call define-key or something like that in one of the summary
mode hooks? This would force Emacs to recalculate the keyboard
shortcuts.
Removing the call should speed up M-x gnus-summary-mode RET by a
couple of orders of magnitude. You can use
(define-key gnus-summary-mode-map KEY COMMAND)
in your .gnus instead.
------------------------------
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))
))))
------------------------------
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:BR> 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?
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.
_________________________________________________________________
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://baugi.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-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 Potorti` <pot@cnuce.cnr.it> writes: Just use C-u SPC or C-u
RET for entering the group.
------------------------------
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 at the moment. (It's on the to-do list,
though.) 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.
------------------------------
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?
There is no magic command right now. 5l will list all subscribed
groups. This list will get compacted the next time you issue a g
command though.
Another trick which almost works is to make sure that you mark an
article with ! in every group you want to keep visible. While this
works, entering the group with something like M-5 SPC is no longer as
convenient.
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
Ok. I'll be adding a gnus-permanently-visible-groups regexp variable
to match groups that should always be shown, no matter whether there
are unread articles in the groups or not. I'll also be adding a
visible group parameter that will have the same effect.
------------------------------
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.
_________________________________________________________________
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send comments, and suggestions to Steve Baur <URL:
mailto:steve@miranova.com>.
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Archive-name: gnus-faq
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Last-modified: June 19 20:24:00 PST 1996
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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 5 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.
If you have a Web browser, the official hypertext version is at:
<URL:http://www.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html>. 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
(Steve Baur's) fault, sorry.
What's changed since last time?
Added questions about News and Mail directories, and color and
backgrounds. Added a question about organization of mail directories.
This file was last modified on June 19, 1996.
------------------------------
Subject: Table Of Contents
1. Installation
+ Q1.1 What is the latest version?
+ Q1.2 Where do I get Gnus?
+ Q1.3 What Emacs versions are required?
+ Q1.4 Where is timezone.el?
+ Q1.5 I get weird messages when running under XEmacs 19.13.
+ 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?
+ Q1.12 How do I make Gnus start faster?
+ Q1.13 I've upgraded to 5.2 and my hooks no longer work [New!]
2. Customizing Gnus
+ Q2.1 Custom doesn't work under XEmacs
+ Q2.2 How do I quote messages?
+ Q2.4 Any suggestions for all.SCORE?
+ Q2.5 How do I use yank-through when replying?
+ Q2.6 I don't like the default WWW browser
+ Q2.8 Moving between groups is slow.
+ 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. [New!]
+ Q2.14 Gnus colors have problems with my background color.
[New!]
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 [New!]
_________________________________________________________________
1. Installation
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.1 What is the latest version of Gnus?
There are two different versions of Gnus available now. The latest
(and greatest) general version is 5.2.22. While in alpha testing it
was called September 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 will be included standard with XEmacs 19.14 (scheduled to be
released on June 23). It appears that Gnus 5.2 will be the Gnus
bundled with it.
Plans for the next version are already underway. It has been codenamed
Red Gnus, and will (probably) have a version number of 5.4 & 5.5 when
released.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.2 Where do I get Gnus?
The latest version is available via anonymous FTP or <URL:
ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/emacs/gnus/gnus.tar.gz>. You can also fetch
it from the North American mirrors:
<URL:ftp://ftp.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/>,
<URL:http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/>,
<URL:gopher://gopher.pilgrim.umass.edu/11/pub/misc/ding/>, or
<URL:ftp://aphrodite.nectar.cs.cmu.edu/pub/ding-gnus/> or
<URL:ftp://ftp.statsci.com/pub/users/scott/ding-gnus/>. The last site
should only be used as a last resort.
------------------------------
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 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.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.4 Where is timezone.el?
Upgrade to XEmacs 19.13. In earlier versions of XEmacs this file was
placed with Gnus 4.1.3, but that has been corrected.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.5 When I run Gnus on XEmacs 19.13 I get weird error messages.
You're running an old version of Gnus. Upgrade to at least version
5.0.4.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.6 How do I unsubscribe from the Mailing List?
Send an e-mail message to <URL: mailto:ding-request@ifi.uio.no> 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?
The basic answer is to byte-compile under XEmacs, and then you can run
under either Emacsen. There is, however, a potential version problem
with easymenu.el with Gnu Emacs prior to 19.29.
Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes :
The internal easymenu.el interface changed between 19.28 and 19.29 in
order to make it possible to create byte compiled files that can be
shared between Gnu Emacs and XEmacs. The change is upward compatible,
but not downward compatible. This gives the following compatibility
table:
Compiled with: | Can be used with:
----------------+--------------------------------------
19.28 | 19.28 19.29
19.29 | 19.29 XEmacs
XEmacs | 19.29 XEmacs
If you have Gnu Emacs 19.28 or earlier, or XEmacs 19.12 or earlier,
get a recent version of auc-menu.el from
<URL: ftp://ftp.iesd.auc.dk/pub/emacs-lisp/auc-menu.el> and install it
under the name easymenu.el somewhere early in your load path.
------------------------------
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@ifi.uio.no 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.
This mailing list is now mirrored on the World Wide Web at
<URL: http://www.miranova.com/gnus-list/>. The archives date back to
mid August, are separated by month for access speed, and were
assembled with the Hypermail 1.02 utility.
Gnus has a home World Wide Web page at
<URL: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/ding.html>. A Gnus tips page exists
at
<URL: http://www.fuentez.com/public-info/ding/ding.html>.
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 X Windows Applications 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. The canonical
source is in Norway at
<URL: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/ding-manual/gnus_toc.html>
There are four mirrors in the United States:
<URL: http://www.c2.org/~mrblond/gnus/>
<URL: http://www.miranova.com/gnus-man/>
<URL: http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/manual/gnus_toc.html>
<URL: http://www.rtd.com/~woo/gnus/>
PostScript copies of the Gnus Reference card are available from
<URL: ftp://ftp.cs.ualberta.ca/pub/oolog/gnus/>. They are mirrored at
<URL: ftp://ftp.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/refcard/>. In the
United States. And
<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.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html>. Off-line formats
are also available:
ASCII: <URL: ftp://ftp.miranova.com/pub/gnus/gnus-faq>.
PostScript: <URL: ftp://ftp.miranova.com/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@netcom.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
Is Gnus in your load-path?
Patrick LoPresti <patl@lcs.mit.edu > writes :
Note that this is not a bug in either Gnus or Mailcrypt; you cannot
expect any file to byte-compile correctly if required packages are not
in your load path. (Or, worse, if a completely different version of
the package is in the load path at compile-time than at run-time.)
Moreover, this need is documented in the Mailcrypt INSTALL file, so
the problem is really just a failure to follow directions...
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.11 What other packages work with Gnus?
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), and
<URL: ftp://ftp.nisiq.net/pub/gnu/emacs-lisp/tm/> (USA).
Be sure to apply the supplied patch. It works with Gnus through
version 5.0.15 and September Gnus. In order for all dependencies to
work correctly the load sequence is as follows:
(load "tm-setup")
(load "gnus")
(load "mime-compose")
In September Gnus, gnus-setup.el automates this task, and there is no
special patch to apply.
Caveat Emptor: Loading the package disables citation highlighting by
default. To get the old behavior back, use the M-t command.
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 September 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. BBDB can be found at
<URL:
ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/packages
/bbdb-1.50.tar.Z>. You should also pick up gnus-bbdb from Brian
Edmonds:
<URL: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds/usenet/gnus-bbdb.el>.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.12 How do I make Gnus start faster?
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 Potortì <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 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.
_________________________________________________________________
2. Customizing Gnus
------------------------------
Subject: Q2.1 Custom Edit does not work under XEmacs
The custom package has not been ported to XEmacs.
------------------------------
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
`mail-indentation-spaces' spaces or `mail-yank-prefix' if that is
non-nil, unless you have set your own `mail-citation-hook', which will
be called to 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.
------------------------------
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@illusion.apk.net>
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: Q2.5 What do I use to yank-through when replying?
You should probably reply and followup with R and F, instead of r and
f, which solves your problem. But you could try something like:
(defconst mail-yank-ignored-headers
"^.*:"
"Delete these headers from old message when it's inserted in a reply.")
------------------------------
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 ;-).
1. Activate `Customize...' from the `Help' menu.
2. Scroll down to the `WWW Browser' field.
3. Click `mouse-2' on `WWW Browser'.
4. Select `Netscape' from the pop up menu.
5. Press `C-c C-c'
That's it.
If you are using XEmacs then to specify Netscape do
(setq gnus-button-url 'gnus-netscape-open-url)
------------------------------
Subject: Q2.8 Moving between groups is slow.
Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
Do you call define-key or something like that in one of the summary
mode hooks? This would force Emacs to recalculate the keyboard
shortcuts.
Removing the call should speed up M-x gnus-summary-mode RET by a
couple of orders of magnitude. You can use
(define-key gnus-summary-mode-map KEY COMMAND)
in your .gnus instead.
------------------------------
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))
))))
------------------------------
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:BR> 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.
_________________________________________________________________
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://baugi.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-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 Potorti` <pot@cnuce.cnr.it> writes: Just use C-u SPC or C-u
RET for entering the group.
------------------------------
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 at the moment. (It's on the to-do list,
though.) 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.
------------------------------
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?
There is no magic command right now. 5l will list all subscribed
groups. This list will get compacted the next time you issue a g
command though.
Another trick which almost works is to make sure that you mark an
article with ! in every group you want to keep visible. While this
works, entering the group with something like M-5 SPC is no longer as
convenient.
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
Ok. I'll be adding a gnus-permanently-visible-groups regexp variable
to match groups that should always be shown, no matter whether there
are unread articles in the groups or not. I'll also be adding a
visible group parameter that will have the same effect.
------------------------------
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.
_________________________________________________________________
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send comments, and suggestions to Steve Baur <URL:
mailto:steve@miranova.com>.
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From: Steven L Baur @ 1996-05-20 0:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
Archive-name: gnus-faq
Posting-frequency: monthly (on or about the 19th)
Last-modified: May 19 14:36:34 PST 1996
URL: http://www.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html
[With the release of Gnus 5.2 imminent, this will be the last edition of
the FAQ oriented towards Gnus 5.0. In other breaking news, I'm
anticipating a positive court decision in Philadelphia overruling the
indecency part of the CDA. So as of 18 May 1996 16:00 -0700, the Gnus
Mailing list archives have been reopened. -sb]
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 5 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.
If you have a Web browser, the official hypertext version is at:
<URL:http://www.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html>. 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
(Steve Baur's) fault, sorry.
What's changed since last time?
Added a question regarding find-file-hooks. Added explanation of
gnus-setup.el with September Gnus. Added information about using
multiple .signature files.
This file was last modified on May 19, 1996.
------------------------------
Subject: Table Of Contents
1. Installation
+ Q1.1 What is the latest version?
+ Q1.2 Where do I get Gnus?
+ Q1.3 What Emacs versions are required?
+ Q1.4 Where is timezone.el?
+ Q1.5 I get weird messages when running under XEmacs 19.13.
+ 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?
+ Q1.12 How do I make Gnus start faster?
2. Customizing Gnus
+ Q2.1 Custom doesn't work under XEmacs
+ Q2.2 How do I quote messages?
+ Q2.4 Any suggestions for all.SCORE?
+ Q2.5 How do I use yank-through when replying?
+ Q2.6 I don't like the default WWW browser
+ Q2.8 Moving between groups is slow.
+ Q2.9 Increasing score of favorite authors.
+ Q2.10 Multiple .signatures. [New!]
+ Q2.11 Gnus and compression hooks. [New!]
+ Q2.12 Using Gnus and other packages. [New!]
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?
_________________________________________________________________
1. Installation
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.1 What is the latest version of Gnus?
There are three different versions of Gnus available now. The latest
(and greatest) general version is 5.0.15. This is the portable version
and supports older GNU Emacs and XEmacs.
Gnus 5.x is included in the official distribution of Emacs 19.30 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. It corresponds to 5.0.13, and includes everything
except stuff like XEmacs support.
Gnus 5.0.15 will be included standard with XEmacs 19.14 (scheduled to
be released sometime in the near future, but probably not by the end
of the month of May).
What was the Alpha version of the next major release of Gnus (5.2) is
something called September Gnus. It is currently at version 0.89.
September Gnus runs on XEmacs 19.13 and later, and on GNU Emacs 19.30
and later.
Newsflash: September Gnus is being readied for release in about a week
or so.
Plans for the next version are already underway. It has been codenamed
Red Gnus.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.2 Where do I get Gnus?
The latest version is available via anonymous FTP or <URL:
ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/emacs/gnus/gnus.tar.gz>. You can also fetch
it from the North American mirrors:
<URL:ftp://ftp.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/>,
<URL:http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/>,
<URL:gopher://gopher.pilgrim.umass.edu/11/pub/misc/ding/>, or
<URL:ftp://aphrodite.nectar.cs.cmu.edu/pub/ding-gnus/> or
<URL:ftp://ftp.statsci.com/pub/users/scott/ding-gnus/>. The last site
should only be used as a last resort.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.3 Which version of Emacs do I need?
At least GNU Emacs 19.28, or XEmacs 19.12 is 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.
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.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.4 Where is timezone.el?
Upgrade to XEmacs 19.13. In earlier versions of XEmacs this file was
placed with Gnus 4.1.3, but that has been corrected.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.5 When I run Gnus on XEmacs 19.13 I get weird error messages.
You're running an old version of Gnus. Upgrade to at least version
5.0.4.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.6 How do I unsubscribe from the Mailing List?
Send an e-mail message to <URL: mailto:ding-request@ifi.uio.no> 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?
The basic answer is to byte-compile under XEmacs, and then you can run
under either Emacsen. There is, however, a potential version problem
with easymenu.el with Gnu Emacs prior to 19.29.
Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes :
The internal easymenu.el interface changed between 19.28 and 19.29 in
order to make it possible to create byte compiled files that can be
shared between Gnu Emacs and XEmacs. The change is upward compatible,
but not downward compatible. This gives the following compatibility
table:
Compiled with: | Can be used with:
----------------+--------------------------------------
19.28 | 19.28 19.29
19.29 | 19.29 XEmacs
XEmacs | 19.29 XEmacs
If you have Gnu Emacs 19.28 or earlier, or XEmacs 19.12 or earlier,
get a recent version of auc-menu.el from
<URL: ftp://ftp.iesd.auc.dk/pub/emacs-lisp/auc-menu.el> and install it
under the name easymenu.el somewhere early in your load path.
------------------------------
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@ifi.uio.no 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.
This mailing list is now mirrored on the World Wide Web at
<URL: http://www.miranova.com/gnus-list/>. The archives date back to
mid August, are separated by month for access speed, and were
assembled with the Hypermail 1.02 utility.
Gnus has a home World Wide Web page at
<URL: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/ding.html>. A Gnus tips page exists
at
<URL: http://www.fuentez.com/public-info/ding/ding.html>.
Ketil Z Malde <ketil@ii.uib.no> has a page on mail filtering using
Gnus:
<URL:http://www.ii.uib.no/~ketil/mailsorting.html>.
Gnus has a write up in the X Windows Applications 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. The canonical
source is in Norway at
<URL: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/ding-manual/gnus_toc.html>
There are four mirrors in the United States:
<URL: http://www.c2.org/~mrblond/gnus/>
<URL: http://www.miranova.com/gnus-man/>
<URL: http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/manual/gnus_toc.html>
<URL: http://www.rtd.com/~woo/gnus/>
PostScript copies of the Gnus Reference card are available from
<URL: ftp://ftp.cs.ualberta.ca/pub/oolog/gnus/>. They are mirrored at
<URL: ftp://ftp.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/misc/ding/refcard/>. In the
United States. And
<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.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html>. Off-line formats
are also available:
ASCII: <URL: ftp://ftp.miranova.com/pub/gnus/gnus-faq>.
PostScript: <URL: ftp://ftp.miranova.com/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@netcom.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
Is Gnus in your load-path?
Patrick LoPresti <patl@lcs.mit.edu > writes :
Note that this is not a bug in either Gnus or Mailcrypt; you cannot
expect any file to byte-compile correctly if required packages are not
in your load path. (Or, worse, if a completely different version of
the package is in the load path at compile-time than at run-time.)
Moreover, this need is documented in the Mailcrypt INSTALL file, so
the problem is really just a failure to follow directions...
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.11 What other packages work with Gnus?
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), and
<URL: ftp://ftp.nisiq.net/pub/gnu/emacs-lisp/tm/> (USA).
Be sure to apply the supplied patch. It works with Gnus through
version 5.0.15 and September Gnus. In order for all dependencies to
work correctly the load sequence is as follows:
(load "tm-setup")
(load "gnus")
(load "mime-compose")
In September Gnus, gnus-setup.el automates this task, and there is no
special patch to apply.
Caveat Emptor: Loading the package disables citation highlighting by
default. To get the old behavior back, use the M-t command.
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 September 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. BBDB can be found at
<URL:
ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/packages
/bbdb-1.50.tar.Z>. You should also pick up gnus-bbdb from Brian
Edmonds:
<URL: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds/usenet/gnus-bbdb.el>.
------------------------------
Subject: Q1.12 How do I make Gnus start faster?
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 Potorti` <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.
_________________________________________________________________
2. Customizing Gnus
------------------------------
Subject: Q2.1 Custom Edit does not work under XEmacs
The custom package has not been ported to XEmacs.
------------------------------
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
`mail-indentation-spaces' spaces or `mail-yank-prefix' if that is
non-nil, unless you have set your own `mail-citation-hook', which will
be called to 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.
------------------------------
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@illusion.apk.net>
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: Q2.5 What do I use to yank-through when replying?
You should probably reply and followup with R and F, instead of r and
f, which solves your problem. But you could try something like:
(defconst mail-yank-ignored-headers
"^.*:"
"Delete these headers from old message when it's inserted in a reply.")
------------------------------
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 ;-).
1. Activate `Customize...' from the `Help' menu.
2. Scroll down to the `WWW Browser' field.
3. Click `mouse-2' on `WWW Browser'.
4. Select `Netscape' from the pop up menu.
5. Press `C-c C-c'
That's it.
If you are using XEmacs then to specify Netscape do
(setq gnus-button-url 'gnus-netscape-open-url)
------------------------------
Subject: Q2.8 Moving between groups is slow.
Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
Do you call define-key or something like that in one of the summary
mode hooks? This would force Emacs to recalculate the keyboard
shortcuts.
Removing the call should speed up M-x gnus-summary-mode RET by a
couple of orders of magnitude. You can use
(define-key gnus-summary-mode-map KEY COMMAND)
in your .gnus instead.
------------------------------
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))
))))
------------------------------
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
_________________________________________________________________
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://baugi.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-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 Potorti` <pot@cnuce.cnr.it> writes: Just use C-u SPC or C-u
RET for entering the group.
------------------------------
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):
$ telnet news.somewhere.com nntp
Trying 199.74.141.7...
Connected to news.somewhere.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 news.somewhere.com InterNetNews NNRP server Netscape 1.1 951101 INN 1.4
22-Dec-93 ready (posting ok).
GROUP news.answers
211 903 31117 32212 news.answers
XOVER 32212
224 data follows
32212 FAQ: comp.ai.genetic part 4/6 (A Guide to Frequently Asked Questions
) David.Beasley@cs.cf.ac.uk (David Beasley) Mon, 18 Mar 1996 18:58:21 G
MT <part4_827175470@cs.cf.ac.uk> <part3_827175470@cs.cf.ac.uk> 71671 15
03
.
If your output looks like this, your newsfeed is broken. If you see a
field that looks similar to an Xref: line, then your newsfeed is O.K.
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 at the moment. (It's on the to-do list,
though.) 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.
------------------------------
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?
There is no magic command right now. 5l will list all subscribed
groups. This list will get compacted the next time you issue a g
command though.
Another trick which almost works is to make sure that you mark an
article with ! in every group you want to keep visible. While this
works, entering the group with something like M-5 SPC is no longer as
convenient.
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
Ok. I'll be adding a gnus-permanently-visible-groups regexp variable
to match groups that should always be shown, no matter whether there
are unread articles in the groups or not. I'll also be adding a
visible group parameter that will have the same effect.
_________________________________________________________________
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send comments, and suggestions to Steve Baur <URL:
mailto:steve@miranova.com>.
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just wanted to tell you that GNUS ain't mirrored on ftp.solace.mh.se
since october last year, i guess i could start mirroring it on
pfawww.pp.se if there's an interest.
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