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Update Gnus to No Gnus 0.7 from the Gnus CVS trunk Revision: emacs@sv.gnu.org/emacs--devo--0--patch-911
author Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
date Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:18:39 +0000
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1 @title Configuring Gnus for the first time
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3 @node What do you want to do with Gnus?
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5 @variable outbound (:radio ((item :tag "Send mail via sendmail" "sendmail") (item :tag "Send mail via SMTP" "smtp"))) "sendmail"
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7 @variable backends (:set ((item :tag "Read news via NNTP" "nntp") (item :tag "Read mail, store it locally" "nnml") (item :tag "Read mail and store it on an IMAP server" "nnimap"))) (list "nnml")
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8 @result primary-mail-selections (list backends outbound)
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10 @text
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11 Welcome to Gnus. You need to tell us what you want to do with Gnus
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12 before we go on to specific configurations.
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14 Choose the tasks you want to set up:
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15 @variable{backends}
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17 Choose the method Gnus will use to send mail:
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18 @variable{outbound}
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20 @end text
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22 @next (member "nnml" backends) "Setting up local mail storage (nnml)"
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23 @next (member "nntp" backends) "Setting up a NNTP server"
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25 @node Setting up local mail storage (nnml)
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26 @variable mechanism (:radio ((item :tag "Get mail from your Unix mbox" "mbox") (item :tag "Use POP3 to retrieve mail" "pop3"))) "mbox"
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27 @result nnml-mechanism (list mechanism)
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29 You are setting up local mail storage, using the nnml backend in Gnus terms.
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31 Your mail can be downloaded into Gnus in several ways, choose one:
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32 @variable{mechanism}
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34 @end text
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36 @node Setting up a NNTP server
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38 @text
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39 TODO: this will be a real link.
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40 Run M-x assistant and use the news-server.ast file as input.
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41 @end text
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44 @c Local variables:
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45 @c mode: texinfo
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46 @c End:
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48 @ignore
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49 arch-tag: 6b7b200b-9169-4b44-8b32-b73773fa71af
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50 @end ignore
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