Re: Stuff I stumbeled over while writing Gnus-FAQ

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:

> Is the following sentence still valid?
> -->--
>    Gnus 5.8.x requires an emacs version that is greater
>    than or equal to Emacs 20.x or XEmacs 20.x.
> -->--

Emacs 20.3 and XEmacs 20.1, I think.

> There's often the question "How to prevent Gnus from deleting the Mail
> on the server it retrieves from my Pop3-server", there's no
> functionality for this in any version of Gnus, so people have to use
> either something like fetchmail, or the pop3.el from XEmacs mail-lib,
> correct?

Yes.

> And this pop3.el doesn't work with Gnu Emacs, correct too?

Wasn't there some paperwork problems with that?  I forget...

> Do I remember correctly that there's no chance of specifying an other
> browser than w3 for rendering html-mail in 5.8.8?

I think so.  In Oort, there's `mm-text-html-renderer'.

> Is there any solution better than marking all messages and moving them
> to the group they were already in before for the "Gnus' estimation of
> total articles in Group is to high" problem?

Nope.

> If you want to tick a message you say !, wouldn't it be nice if C-u ! 
> removed the tick mark?

`C-u !' is the same as `4 !'.  That is, tick the next four messages.
(That's the normal Emacs numerical prefix rule.)

> I know that Oort has an variable which makes Gnus ask you for
> confirmation when replying in a newsgroup. Is this in 5.8.8, too?

I don't think so...

> Is there anybody out there using aspell together with flyspell and
> ispell.el? Where does configuration compared to ispell differ? Is it
> enough to set ispell-program-name to aspell?

Uhm...  Somebody else take this one.  :-)

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