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* doc/misc/gnus-coding.texi (Gnus Maintenance Guide): Update GNUS-NEWS section to match current file locations and procedure. * etc/GNUS-NEWS: Regenerate by using new procedure. * lisp/Makefile.in (update-gnus-news): New rule, containing a procedure for building GNUS-NEWS. The old procedure got lost somehow when Gnus was merged into Emacs.
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GNUS NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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Copyright (C) 1999-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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See the end of the file for license conditions.
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Please send Gnus bug reports to bugs@gnus.org.
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For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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* Supported Emacs versions The following Emacs versions are supported by No
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Gnus:
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** Emacs 22 and up
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** XEmacs 21.4
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** XEmacs 21.5
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** SXEmacs
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* Installation changes
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** Upgrading from previous (stable) version if you have used No Gnus.
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If you have tried No Gnus (the unstable Gnus branch leading to this
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release) but went back to a stable version, be careful when upgrading to
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this version. In particular, you will probably want to remove the
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'~/News/marks' directory (perhaps selectively), so that flags are read
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from your '~/.newsrc.eld' instead of from the stale marks file, where
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this release will store flags for nntp. See a later entry for more
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information about nntp marks. Note that downgrading isn't safe in
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general.
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** Incompatibility when switching from Emacs 23 to Emacs 22 In Emacs 23,
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Gnus uses Emacs's new internal coding system 'utf-8-emacs' for saving
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articles drafts and '~/.newsrc.eld'. These files may not be read
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correctly in Emacs 22 and below. If you want to use Gnus across
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different Emacs versions, you may set 'mm-auto-save-coding-system' to
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'emacs-mule'.
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** Lisp files are now installed in '.../site-lisp/gnus/' by default. It
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defaulted to '.../site-lisp/' formerly. In addition to this, the new
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installer issues a warning if other Gnus installations which will shadow
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the latest one are detected. You can then remove those shadows manually
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or remove them using 'make remove-installed-shadows'.
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** The installation directory name is allowed to have spaces and/or tabs.
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* New packages and libraries within Gnus
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** New version of 'nnimap'
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'nnimap' has been reimplemented in a mostly-compatible way. See the Gnus
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manual for a description of the new interface. In particular,
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'nnimap-inbox' and the client side split method has changed.
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** Gnus includes the Emacs Lisp SASL library.
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This provides a clean API to SASL mechanisms from within Emacs. The user
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visible aspects of this, compared to the earlier situation, include
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support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM. *Note Emacs SASL: (sasl)Top.
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** ManageSieve connections uses the SASL library by default.
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The primary change this brings is support for DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM, when
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the server supports it.
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** Gnus includes a password cache mechanism in password.el.
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It is enabled by default (see 'password-cache'), with a short timeout of
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16 seconds (see 'password-cache-expiry'). If PGG is used as the PGP back
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end, the PGP passphrase is managed by this mechanism. Passwords for
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ManageSieve connections are managed by this mechanism, after querying the
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user about whether to do so.
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** Using EasyPG with Gnus When EasyPG, is available, Gnus will use it
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instead of PGG. EasyPG is an Emacs user interface to GNU Privacy Guard.
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*Note EasyPG Assistant user's manual: (epa)Top. EasyPG is included in
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Emacs 23 and available separately as well.
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* Changes in group mode
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** Symbols like 'gcc-self' now have the same precedence rules in
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'gnus-parameters' as other "real" variables: The last match wins instead
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of the first match.
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** Old intermediate incoming mail files ('Incoming*') are deleted after a
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couple of days, not immediately. *Note Mail Source Customization::.
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(New in Gnus 5.10.10 / No Gnus 0.8)
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* Changes in summary and article mode
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** There's now only one variable that determines how HTML is rendered:
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'mm-text-html-renderer'.
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** Gnus now supports sticky article buffers. Those are article buffers that
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are not reused when you select another article. *Note Sticky Articles::.
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** Gnus can selectively display 'text/html' articles with a WWW browser with
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'K H'. *Note MIME Commands::.
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** International host names (IDNA) can now be decoded inside article bodies
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using 'W i' ('gnus-summary-idna-message'). This requires that GNU Libidn
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(<http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/>) has been installed.
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** The non-ASCII group names handling has been much improved. The back ends
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that fully support non-ASCII group names are now 'nntp', 'nnml', and
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'nnrss'. Also the agent, the cache, and the marks features work with
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those back ends. *Note Non-ASCII Group Names::.
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** Gnus now displays DNS master files sent as text/dns using dns-mode.
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** Gnus supports new limiting commands in the Summary buffer: '/ r'
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('gnus-summary-limit-to-replied') and '/ R'
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('gnus-summary-limit-to-recipient'). *Note Limiting::.
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** You can now fetch all ticked articles from the server using 'Y t'
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('gnus-summary-insert-ticked-articles'). *Note Summary Generation
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Commands::.
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** Gnus supports a new sort command in the Summary buffer: 'C-c C-s C-t'
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('gnus-summary-sort-by-recipient'). *Note Summary Sorting::.
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** S/MIME now features LDAP user certificate searches. You need to
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configure the server in 'smime-ldap-host-list'.
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** URLs inside OpenPGP headers are retrieved and imported to your PGP key
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ring when you click on them.
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** Picons can be displayed right from the textual address, see
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'gnus-picon-style'. *Note Picons::.
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** ANSI SGR control sequences can be transformed using 'W A'.
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ANSI sequences are used in some Chinese hierarchies for highlighting
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articles ('gnus-article-treat-ansi-sequences').
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** Gnus now MIME decodes articles even when they lack "MIME-Version" header.
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This changes the default of 'gnus-article-loose-mime'.
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** 'gnus-decay-scores' can be a regexp matching score files. For example,
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set it to '\\.ADAPT\\'' and only adaptive score files will be decayed.
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*Note Score Decays::.
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** Strings prefixing to the 'To' and 'Newsgroup' headers in summary lines
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when using 'gnus-ignored-from-addresses' can be customized with
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'gnus-summary-to-prefix' and 'gnus-summary-newsgroup-prefix'. *Note To
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From Newsgroups::.
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** You can replace MIME parts with external bodies. See
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'gnus-mime-replace-part' and 'gnus-article-replace-part'. *Note MIME
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Commands::, *note Using MIME::.
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** The option 'mm-fill-flowed' can be used to disable treatment of
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format=flowed messages. Also, flowed text is disabled when sending
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inline PGP signed messages. *Note Flowed text: (emacs-mime)Flowed text.
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(New in Gnus 5.10.7)
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** Now the new command 'S W' ('gnus-article-wide-reply-with-original') for a
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wide reply in the article buffer yanks a text that is in the active
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region, if it is set, as well as the 'R'
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('gnus-article-reply-with-original') command. Note that the 'R' command
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in the article buffer no longer accepts a prefix argument, which was used
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to make it do a wide reply. *Note Article Keymap::.
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** The new command 'C-h b' ('gnus-article-describe-bindings') used in the
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article buffer now shows not only the article commands but also the real
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summary commands that are accessible from the article buffer.
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* Changes in Message mode
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** Gnus now defaults to saving all outgoing messages in per-month nnfolder
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archives.
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** Gnus now supports the "hashcash" client puzzle anti-spam mechanism. Use
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'(setq message-generate-hashcash t)' to enable. *Note Hashcash::.
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** You can now drag and drop attachments to the Message buffer. See
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'mml-dnd-protocol-alist' and 'mml-dnd-attach-options'. *Note MIME:
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(message)MIME.
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** The option 'message-yank-empty-prefix' now controls how empty lines are
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prefixed in cited text. *Note Insertion Variables: (message)Insertion
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Variables.
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** Gnus uses narrowing to hide headers in Message buffers. The 'References'
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header is hidden by default. To make all headers visible, use '(setq
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message-hidden-headers nil)'. *Note Message Headers: (message)Message
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Headers.
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** You can highlight different levels of citations like in the article
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buffer. See 'gnus-message-highlight-citation'.
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** 'auto-fill-mode' is enabled by default in Message mode. See
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'message-fill-column'. *Note Message Headers: (message)Various Message
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Variables.
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** You can now store signature files in a special directory named
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'message-signature-directory'.
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** The option 'message-citation-line-format' controls the format of the
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"Whomever writes:" line. You need to set
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'message-citation-line-function' to
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'message-insert-formatted-citation-line' as well.
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* Changes in Browse Server mode
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** Gnus' sophisticated subscription methods are now available in Browse
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Server buffers as well using the variable
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'gnus-browse-subscribe-newsgroup-method'.
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* Changes in back ends
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** The nntp back end stores article marks in '~/News/marks'.
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The directory can be changed using the (customizable) variable
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'nntp-marks-directory', and marks can be disabled using the (back end)
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variable 'nntp-marks-is-evil'. The advantage of this is that you can
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copy '~/News/marks' (using rsync, scp or whatever) to another Gnus
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installation, and it will realize what articles you have read and marked.
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The data in '~/News/marks' has priority over the same data in
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'~/.newsrc.eld'.
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** You can import and export your RSS subscriptions from OPML files. *Note
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RSS::.
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** IMAP identity (RFC 2971) is supported.
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By default, Gnus does not send any information about itself, but you can
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customize it using the variable 'nnimap-id'.
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** The 'nnrss' back end now supports multilingual text. Non-ASCII group
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names for the 'nnrss' groups are also supported. *Note RSS::.
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** Retrieving mail with POP3 is supported over SSL/TLS and with StartTLS.
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** The nnml back end allows other compression programs beside 'gzip' for
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compressed message files. *Note Mail Spool::.
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** The nnml back end supports group compaction.
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This feature, accessible via the functions 'gnus-group-compact-group' ('G
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z' in the group buffer) and 'gnus-server-compact-server' ('z' in the
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server buffer) renumbers all articles in a group, starting from 1 and
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removing gaps. As a consequence, you get a correct total article count
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(until messages are deleted again).
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* Appearance
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** The tool bar has been updated to use GNOME icons. You can also customize
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the tool bars: 'M-x customize-apropos RET -tool-bar$' should get you
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started. (Only for Emacs, not in XEmacs.)
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** The tool bar icons are now (de)activated correctly in the group buffer,
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see the variable 'gnus-group-update-tool-bar'. Its default value depends
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on your Emacs version.
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** You can change the location of XEmacs's toolbars in Gnus buffers. See
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'gnus-use-toolbar' and 'message-use-toolbar'.
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* Miscellaneous changes
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** Having edited the select-method for the foreign server in the server
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buffer is immediately reflected to the subscription of the groups which
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use the server in question. For instance, if you change
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'nntp-via-address' into 'bar.example.com' from 'foo.example.com', Gnus
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will connect to the news host by way of the intermediate host
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'bar.example.com' from next time.
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** The 'all.SCORE' file can be edited from the group buffer using 'W e'.
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** You can set 'gnus-mark-copied-or-moved-articles-as-expirable' to a
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non-'nil' value so that articles that have been read may be marked as
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expirable automatically when copying or moving them to a group that has
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auto-expire turned on. The default is 'nil' and copying and moving of
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articles behave as before; i.e., the expirable marks will be unchanged
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except that the marks will be removed when copying or moving articles to
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a group that has not turned auto-expire on. *Note Expiring Mail::.
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** NoCeM support has been removed.
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** Carpal mode has been removed.
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* For older news, see Gnus info node "New Features".
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----------------------------------------------------------------------
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This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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Local variables:
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mode: outline
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paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$"
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end:
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