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15 @node Frequently Asked Questions
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18 @menu
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19 * FAQ - Changes::
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20 * FAQ - Introduction:: About Gnus and this FAQ.
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21 * FAQ 1 - Installation FAQ:: Installation of Gnus.
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22 * FAQ 2 - Startup / Group buffer:: Start up questions and the
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23 first buffer Gnus shows you.
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24 * FAQ 3 - Getting Messages:: Making Gnus read your mail
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25 and news.
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26 * FAQ 4 - Reading messages:: How to efficiently read
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27 messages.
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28 * FAQ 5 - Composing messages:: Composing mails or Usenet
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30 * FAQ 6 - Old messages:: Importing, archiving,
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31 searching and deleting messages.
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32 * FAQ 7 - Gnus in a dial-up environment:: Reading mail and news while
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33 offline.
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34 * FAQ 8 - Getting help:: When this FAQ isn't enough.
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35 * FAQ 9 - Tuning Gnus:: How to make Gnus faster.
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36 * FAQ - Glossary:: Terms used in the FAQ
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37 explained.
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38 @end menu
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40 @subheading Abstract
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42 This is the new Gnus Frequently Asked Questions list.
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43 If you have a Web browser, the official hypertext version is at
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44 @uref{http://my.gnus.org/FAQ/},
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48 Please submit features and suggestions to the
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49 @email{faq-discuss@@my.gnus.org, FAQ discussion list}.
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50 The list is protected against junk mail with
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52 a subscriber, your submissions will automatically pass. You can
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54 @email{faq-discuss-subscribe@@my.gnus.org, faq-discuss-subscribe@@my.gnus.org}
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55 and @uref{http://mail1.kens.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-browse?command=monthbythread%26list=faq-discuss, browse
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56 the archive (BROKEN)}.
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58 @node FAQ - Changes
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59 @subheading Changes
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74 @node FAQ - Introduction
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75 @subheading Introduction
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79 Gnus is a Usenet Newsreader and Electronic Mail User Agent implemented
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82 that time. Gnus 5 is the latest (and greatest) incarnation. The
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83 original version was called GNUS, and was written by Masanobu UMEDA.
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88 customizable. It is somewhat intimidating at first glance, but
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89 most of the complexity can be ignored until you're ready to take
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93 high volume newsgroups or are just bored, then Gnus is what you
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94 want.
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96 This FAQ was maintained by Justin Sheehy until March 2002. He
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97 would like to thank Steve Baur and Per Abrahamsen for doing a wonderful
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98 job with this FAQ before him. We would like to do the same - thanks,
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99 Justin!
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101 If you have a Web browser, the official hypertext version is at:
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102 @uref{http://my.gnus.org/FAQ/}.
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103 This version is much nicer than the unofficial hypertext
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104 versions that are archived at Utrecht, Oxford, Smart Pages, Ohio
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105 State, and other FAQ archives. See the resources question below
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106 if you want information on obtaining it in another format.
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108 The information contained here was compiled with the assistance
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109 of the Gnus development mailing list, and any errors or
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110 misprints are the my.gnus.org team's fault, sorry.
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112 @node FAQ 1 - Installation FAQ
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113 @subsection Installation FAQ
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116 * FAQ 1-1:: What is the latest version of Gnus?
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117 * FAQ 1-2:: What's new in 5.10?
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118 * FAQ 1-3:: Where and how to get Gnus?
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119 * FAQ 1-4:: What to do with the tarball now?
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120 * FAQ 1-5:: I sometimes read references to No Gnus and Oort Gnus,
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121 what are those?
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122 * FAQ 1-6:: Which version of Emacs do I need?
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123 * FAQ 1-7:: How do I run Gnus on both Emacs and XEmacs?
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124 @end menu
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126 @node FAQ 1-1
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127 @subsubheading Question 1.1
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129 What is the latest version of Gnus?
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131 @subsubheading Answer
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133 Jingle please: Gnus 5.10 is released, get it while it's
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134 hot! As well as the step in version number is rather
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135 small, Gnus 5.10 has tons of new features which you
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136 shouldn't miss. The current release (5.13) should be at
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137 least as stable as the latest release of the 5.8 series.
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139 @node FAQ 1-2
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140 @subsubheading Question 1.2
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142 What's new in 5.10?
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144 @subsubheading Answer
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146 First of all, you should have a look into the file
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147 GNUS-NEWS in the toplevel directory of the Gnus tarball,
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148 there the most important changes are listed. Here's a
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149 short list of the changes I find especially
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150 important/interesting:
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152 @itemize @bullet
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154 @item
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155 Major rewrite of the Gnus agent, Gnus agent is now
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156 active by default.
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158 @item
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159 Many new article washing functions for dealing with
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160 ugly formatted articles.
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162 @item
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163 Anti Spam features.
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165 @item
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166 Message-utils now included in Gnus.
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264 file exists. Do you want to read it?", what does this mean and
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265 how to prevent it?
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267 what's this?
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268 * FAQ 2-3:: How to change the format of the lines in Group buffer?
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270 sort my groups into categories so I can easier browse through
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271 them?
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273 sort the groups in a topic?
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279 Every time I start Gnus I get a message "Gnus auto-save
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285 This message means that the last time you used Gnus, it
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291 To prevent this message make sure you exit Gnus
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340 you can use @samp{T n} to create a topic
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341 at point and @samp{T m} to move a group to
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343 menu. You might want to include the %P specifier at the
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344 beginning of your gnus-group-line-format variable to have
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345 the groups nicely indented.
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347 @node FAQ 2-5
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350 How to manually sort the groups in Group buffer? How to
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351 sort the groups in a topic?
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355 Move point over the group you want to move and
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356 hit @samp{C-k}, now move point to the
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357 place where you want the group to be and
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358 hit @samp{C-y}.
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360 @node FAQ 3 - Getting Messages
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361 @subsection Getting Messages
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366 * FAQ 3-2:: I'm working under Windows and have no idea what
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367 ~/.gnus.el means.
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368 * FAQ 3-3:: My news server requires authentication, how to store
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369 user name and password on disk?
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371 subscribe to a group.
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372 * FAQ 3-5:: Gnus doesn't show all groups / Gnus says I'm not allowed
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373 to post on this server as well as I am, what's that?
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374 * FAQ 3-6:: I want Gnus to fetch news from several servers, is this
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375 possible?
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376 * FAQ 3-7:: And how about local spool files?
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377 * FAQ 3-8:: OK, reading news works now, but I want to be able to
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378 read my mail with Gnus, too. How to do it?
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379 * FAQ 3-9:: And what about IMAP?
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380 * FAQ 3-10:: At the office we use one of those MS Exchange servers,
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381 can I use Gnus to read my mail from it?
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382 * FAQ 3-11:: Can I tell Gnus not to delete the mails on the server it
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383 retrieves via POP3?
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389 I just installed Gnus, started it via
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390 @samp{M-x gnus}
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391 but it only says "nntp (news) open error", what to do?
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395 You've got to tell Gnus where to fetch the news from. Read
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396 the documentation for information on how to do this. As a
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397 first start, put those lines in ~/.gnus.el:
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399 @example
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413 The ~/ means the home directory where Gnus and Emacs look
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414 for the configuration files. However, you don't really
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415 need to know what this means, it suffices that Emacs knows
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416 what it means :-) You can type
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417 @samp{C-x C-f ~/.gnus.el RET }
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419 Emacs will open the right file for you. (It will most
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420 likely be new, and thus empty.)
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421 However, I'd discourage you from doing so, since the
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422 directory Emacs chooses will most certainly not be what
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423 you want, so let's do it the correct way.
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424 The first thing you've got to do is to
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425 create a suitable directory (no blanks in directory name
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426 please) e.g. c:\myhome. Then you must set the environment
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427 variable HOME to this directory. To do this under Win9x
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428 or Me include the line
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430 @example
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431 SET HOME=C:\myhome
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437 to Control Panel -> System -> Advanced). There you'll find the
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438 possibility to set environment variables. Create a new one with
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439 name HOME and value C:\myhome. Rebooting is not necessary.
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441 Now to create ~/.gnus.el, say
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442 @samp{C-x C-f ~/.gnus.el RET C-x C-s}.
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443 in Emacs.
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448 My news server requires authentication, how to store
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449 user name and password on disk?
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451 @subsubheading Answer
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453 Create a file ~/.authinfo which includes for each server a line like this
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455 @example
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456 machine news.yourprovider.net login YourUserName password YourPassword
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458 @noindent
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459 .
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460 Make sure that the file isn't readable to others if you
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461 work on a OS which is capable of doing so. (Under Unix
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462 say
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463 @example
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464 chmod 600 ~/.authinfo
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473 Gnus seems to start up OK, but I can't find out how to
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474 subscribe to a group.
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478 If you know the name of the group say @samp{U
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479 name.of.group RET} in group buffer (use the
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480 tab-completion Luke). Otherwise hit ^ in group buffer,
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482 cursor) over the server which carries the group you want,
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483 hit @samp{RET}, move point to the group
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484 you want to subscribe to and say @samp{u}
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485 to subscribe to it.
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490 Gnus doesn't show all groups / Gnus says I'm not allowed to
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495 Some providers allow restricted anonymous access and full
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496 access only after authorization. To make Gnus send authinfo
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497 to those servers append
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500 force yes
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509 I want Gnus to fetch news from several servers, is this possible?
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511 @subsubheading Answer
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513 Of course. You can specify more sources for articles in the
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514 variable gnus-secondary-select-methods. Add something like
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515 this in ~/.gnus.el:
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518 (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
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519 '(nntp "news.yourSecondProvider.net"))
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520 (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
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521 '(nntp "news.yourThirdProvider.net"))
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522 @end example
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525 @node FAQ 3-7
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527
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528 And how about local spool files?
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529
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531
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532 No problem, this is just one more select method called
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533 nnspool, so you want this:
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534
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535 @example
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536 (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnspool ""))
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537 @end example
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538 @noindent
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539
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540 Or this if you don't want an NNTP Server as primary news source:
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541
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542 @example
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543 (setq gnus-select-method '(nnspool ""))
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544 @end example
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545 @noindent
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546
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547 Gnus will look for the spool file in /usr/spool/news, if you
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548 want something different, change the line above to something like this:
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549
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550 @example
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551 (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
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552 '(nnspool ""
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553 (nnspool-directory "/usr/local/myspoolddir")))
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556
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557 This sets the spool directory for this server only.
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558 You might have to specify more stuff like the program used
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559 to post articles, see the Gnus manual on how to do this.
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562 @subsubheading Question 3.8
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563
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564 OK, reading news works now, but I want to be able to read my mail
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565 with Gnus, too. How to do it?
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566
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567 @subsubheading Answer
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569 That's a bit harder since there are many possible sources
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570 for mail, many possible ways for storing mail and many
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571 different ways for sending mail. The most common cases are
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572 these: 1: You want to read your mail from a pop3 server and
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573 send them directly to a SMTP Server 2: Some program like
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574 fetchmail retrieves your mail and stores it on disk from
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575 where Gnus shall read it. Outgoing mail is sent by
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576 Sendmail, Postfix or some other MTA. Sometimes, you even
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577 need a combination of the above cases.
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578
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579 However, the first thing to do is to tell Gnus in which way
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580 it should store the mail, in Gnus terminology which back end
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581 to use. Gnus supports many different back ends, the most
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582 commonly used one is nnml. It stores every mail in one file
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583 and is therefor quite fast. However you might prefer a one
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584 file per group approach if your file system has problems with
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585 many small files, the nnfolder back end is then probably the
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586 choice for you. To use nnml add the following to ~/.gnus.el:
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589 (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml ""))
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590 @end example
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591 @noindent
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593 As you might have guessed, if you want nnfolder, it's
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595 @example
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596 (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnfolder ""))
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597 @end example
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598 @noindent
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600 Now we need to tell Gnus, where to get it's mail from. If
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601 it's a POP3 server, then you need something like this:
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603 @example
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604 (eval-after-load "mail-source"
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605 '(add-to-list 'mail-sources '(pop :server "pop.YourProvider.net"
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606 :user "yourUserName"
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607 :password "yourPassword")))
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608 @end example
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609 @noindent
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611 Make sure ~/.gnus.el isn't readable to others if you store
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612 your password there. If you want to read your mail from a
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613 traditional spool file on your local machine, it's
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615 @example
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616 (eval-after-load "mail-source"
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617 '(add-to-list 'mail-sources '(file :path "/path/to/spool/file"))
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621 If it's a Maildir, with one file per message as used by
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622 postfix, Qmail and (optionally) fetchmail it's
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625 (eval-after-load "mail-source"
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626 '(add-to-list 'mail-sources '(maildir :path "/path/to/Maildir/"
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627 :subdirs ("cur" "new")))
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629 @noindent
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631 And finally if you want to read your mail from several files
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632 in one directory, for example because procmail already split your
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633 mail, it's
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636 (eval-after-load "mail-source"
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637 '(add-to-list 'mail-sources
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638 '(directory :path "/path/to/procmail-dir/"
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639 :suffix ".prcml")))
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641 @noindent
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643 Where :suffix ".prcml" tells Gnus only to use files with the
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644 suffix .prcml.
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646 OK, now you only need to tell Gnus how to send mail. If you
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647 want to send mail via sendmail (or whichever MTA is playing
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648 the role of sendmail on your system), you don't need to do
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649 anything. However, if you want to send your mail to an
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650 SMTP Server you need the following in your ~/.gnus.el
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652 @example
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653 (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
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654 (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
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655 (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.yourProvider.net")
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657 @noindent
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662 And what about IMAP?
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664 @subsubheading Answer
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667 to use IMAP like POP3, that means Gnus fetches the mail from
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668 the IMAP server and stores it on disk. If you want to do
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669 this (you don't really want to do this) add the following to
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670 ~/.gnus.el
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673 (add-to-list 'mail-sources '(imap :server "mail.mycorp.com"
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674 :user "username"
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675 :pass "password"
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677 :authentication login
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679 :fetchflag "\\Seen"))
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685 Specifiers" for possible values.
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686
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687 If you want to use IMAP the way it's intended, you've got to
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688 follow a different approach. You've got to add the nnimap
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689 back end to your select method and give the information
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690 about the server there.
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691
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692 @example
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693 (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
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694 '(nnimap "Give the baby a name"
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695 (nnimap-address "imap.yourProvider.net")
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696 (nnimap-port 143)
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697 (nnimap-list-pattern "archive.*")))
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698 @end example
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699 @noindent
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700
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701 Again, you might have to specify how to authenticate to the
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702 server if Gnus can't guess the correct way, see the Manual
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703 Node "IMAP" for detailed information.
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705 @node FAQ 3-10
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707
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708 At the office we use one of those MS Exchange servers, can I use
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709 Gnus to read my mail from it?
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710
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711 @subsubheading Answer
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712
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713 Offer your administrator a pair of new running shoes for
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714 activating IMAP on the server and follow the instructions
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715 above.
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716
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717 @node FAQ 3-11
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718 @subsubheading Question 3.11
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719
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720 Can I tell Gnus not to delete the mails on the server it
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721 retrieves via POP3?
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722
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723 @subsubheading Answer
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724
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725 First of all, that's not the way POP3 is intended to work,
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726 if you have the possibility, you should use the IMAP
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727 Protocol if you want your messages to stay on the
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728 server. Nevertheless there might be situations where you
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729 need the feature, but sadly Gnus itself has no predefined
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730 functionality to do so.
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731
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732 However this is Gnus county so there are possibilities to
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733 achieve what you want. The easiest way is to get an external
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734 program which retrieves copies of the mail and stores them
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735 on disk, so Gnus can read it from there. On Unix systems you
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736 could use e.g. fetchmail for this, on MS Windows you can use
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737 Hamster, an excellent local news and mail server.
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738
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739 The other solution would be, to replace the method Gnus
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740 uses to get mail from POP3 servers by one which is capable
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741 of leaving the mail on the server. If you use XEmacs, get
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742 the package mail-lib, it includes an enhanced pop3.el,
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743 look in the file, there's documentation on how to tell
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744 Gnus to use it and not to delete the retrieved mail. For
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745 GNU Emacs look for the file epop3.el which can do the same
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746 (If you know the home of this file, please send me an
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747 e-mail). You can also tell Gnus to use an external program
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748 (e.g. fetchmail) to fetch your mail, see the info node
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749 "Mail Source Specifiers" in the Gnus manual on how to do
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750 it.
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751
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752 @node FAQ 4 - Reading messages
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753 @subsection Reading messages
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754
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755 @menu
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756 * FAQ 4-1:: When I enter a group, all read messages are gone. How to
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757 view them again?
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758 * FAQ 4-2:: How to tell Gnus to show an important message every time
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759 I enter a group, even when it's read?
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760 * FAQ 4-3:: How to view the headers of a message?
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761 * FAQ 4-4:: How to view the raw unformatted message?
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762 * FAQ 4-5:: How can I change the headers Gnus displays by default at
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763 the top of the article buffer?
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764 * FAQ 4-6:: I'd like Gnus NOT to render HTML-mails but show me the
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765 text part if it's available. How to do it?
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766 * FAQ 4-7:: Can I use some other browser than w3 to render my
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767 HTML-mails?
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768 * FAQ 4-8:: Is there anything I can do to make poorly formatted
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769 mails more readable?
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770 * FAQ 4-9:: Is there a way to automatically ignore posts by specific
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771 authors or with specific words in the subject? And can I
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772 highlight more interesting ones in some way?
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773 * FAQ 4-10:: How can I disable threading in some (e.g. mail-) groups,
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774 or set other variables specific for some groups?
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775 * FAQ 4-11:: Can I highlight messages written by me and follow-ups to
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776 those?
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777 * FAQ 4-12:: The number of total messages in a group which Gnus
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778 displays in group buffer is by far to high, especially in mail
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779 groups. Is this a bug?
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780 * FAQ 4-13:: I don't like the layout of summary and article buffer,
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781 how to change it? Perhaps even a three pane display?
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782 * FAQ 4-14:: I don't like the way the Summary buffer looks, how to
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783 tweak it?
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784 * FAQ 4-15:: How to split incoming mails in several groups?
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785 @end menu
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786
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788 @subsubheading Question 4.1
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789
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790 When I enter a group, all read messages are gone. How to view them again?
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791
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792 @subsubheading Answer
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793
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794 If you enter the group by saying
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795 @samp{RET}
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796 in group buffer with point over the group, only unread and ticked messages are loaded. Say
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797 @samp{C-u RET}
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798 instead to load all available messages. If you want only the e.g. 300 newest say
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799 @samp{C-u 300 RET}
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800
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801 Loading only unread messages can be annoying if you have threaded view enabled, say
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802
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803 @example
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804 (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 'some)
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805 @end example
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806 @noindent
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807
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808 in ~/.gnus.el to load enough old articles to prevent teared threads, replace 'some with t to load
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809 all articles (Warning: Both settings enlarge the amount of data which is
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811
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813 @samp{/o N}
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814 In summary buffer to load the last N messages, this feature is not available in 5.8.8
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815
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816 If you don't want all old messages, but the parent of the message you're just reading,
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818 the message you're just reading belongs to, @samp{A T} is your friend.
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821 @subsubheading Question 4.2
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822
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823 How to tell Gnus to show an important message every time I
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824 enter a group, even when it's read?
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825
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826 @subsubheading Answer
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827
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828 You can tick important messages. To do this hit
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829 @samp{u} while point is in summary buffer
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830 over the message. When you want to remove the mark, hit
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831 either @samp{d} (this deletes the tick
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835 @node FAQ 4-3
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837
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838 How to view the headers of a message?
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839
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840 @subsubheading Answer
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841
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842 Say @samp{t}
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844 @samp{t}
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845 hides them again.
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847 @node FAQ 4-4
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850 How to view the raw unformatted message?
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851
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852 @subsubheading Answer
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854 Say
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855 @samp{C-u g}
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856 to show the raw message
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857 @samp{g}
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858 returns to normal view.
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860 @node FAQ 4-5
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861 @subsubheading Question 4.5
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862
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863 How can I change the headers Gnus displays by default at
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864 the top of the article buffer?
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865
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866 @subsubheading Answer
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867
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868 The variable gnus-visible-headers controls which headers
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869 are shown, its value is a regular expression, header lines
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870 which match it are shown. So if you want author, subject,
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871 date, and if the header exists, Followup-To and MUA / NUA
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872 say this in ~/.gnus.el:
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873
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874 @example
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875 (setq gnus-visible-headers
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876 '("^From" "^Subject" "^Date" "^Newsgroups" "^Followup-To"
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877 "^User-Agent" "^X-Newsreader" "^X-Mailer"))
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878 @end example
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879 @noindent
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881 @node FAQ 4-6
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883
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884 I'd like Gnus NOT to render HTML-mails but show me the
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885 text part if it's available. How to do it?
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886
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887 @subsubheading Answer
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888
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889 Say
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890
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891 @example
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892 (eval-after-load "mm-decode"
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893 '(progn
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894 (add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/html")
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895 (add-to-list 'mm-discouraged-alternatives "text/richtext")))
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896 @end example
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897 @noindent
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898
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899 in ~/.gnus.el. If you don't want HTML rendered, even if there's no text alternative add
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900
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901 @example
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902 (setq mm-automatic-display (remove "text/html" mm-automatic-display))
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903 @end example
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904 @noindent
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905
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906 too.
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908 @node FAQ 4-7
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909 @subsubheading Question 4.7
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910
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911 Can I use some other browser than w3 to render my HTML-mails?
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912
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913 @subsubheading Answer
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914
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915 Only if you use Gnus 5.10 or younger. In this case you've got the
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916 choice between w3, w3m, links, lynx and html2text, which
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917 one is used can be specified in the variable
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918 mm-text-html-renderer, so if you want links to render your
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919 mail say
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920
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921 @example
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922 (setq mm-text-html-renderer 'links)
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923 @end example
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924 @noindent
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926 @node FAQ 4-8
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927 @subsubheading Question 4.8
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928
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929 Is there anything I can do to make poorly formatted mails
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930 more readable?
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931
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932 @subsubheading Answer
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933
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934 Gnus offers you several functions to "wash" incoming mail, you can
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935 find them if you browse through the menu, item
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936 Article->Washing. The most interesting ones are probably "Wrap
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937 long lines" (@samp{W w}), "Decode ROT13"
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938 (@samp{W r}) and "Outlook Deuglify" which repairs
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939 the dumb quoting used by many users of Microsoft products
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940 (@samp{W Y f} gives you full deuglify.
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941 See @samp{W Y C-h} or have a look at the menus for
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942 other deuglifications). Outlook deuglify is only available since
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943 Gnus 5.10.
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944
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945 @node FAQ 4-9
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947
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948 Is there a way to automatically ignore posts by specific
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949 authors or with specific words in the subject? And can I
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950 highlight more interesting ones in some way?
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951
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952 @subsubheading Answer
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953
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954 You want Scoring. Scoring means, that you define rules
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955 which assign each message an integer value. Depending on
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956 the value the message is highlighted in summary buffer (if
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957 it's high, say +2000) or automatically marked read (if the
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958 value is low, say -800) or some other action happens.
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959
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960 There are basically three ways of setting up rules which assign
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961 the scoring-value to messages. The first and easiest way is to set
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962 up rules based on the article you are just reading. Say you're
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963 reading a message by a guy who always writes nonsense and you want
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964 to ignore his messages in the future. Hit
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965 @samp{L}, to set up a rule which lowers the score.
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966 Now Gnus asks you which the criteria for lowering the Score shall
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967 be. Hit @samp{?} twice to see all possibilities,
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968 we want @samp{a} which means the author (the from
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969 header). Now Gnus wants to know which kind of matching we want.
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970 Hit either @samp{e} for an exact match or
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971 @samp{s} for substring-match and delete afterwards
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972 everything but the name to score down all authors with the given
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973 name no matter which email address is used. Now you need to tell
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974 Gnus when to apply the rule and how long it should last, hit e.g.
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975 @samp{p} to apply the rule now and let it last
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976 forever. If you want to raise the score instead of lowering it say
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977 @samp{I} instead of @samp{L}.
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978
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979 You can also set up rules by hand. To do this say @samp{V
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980 f} in summary buffer. Then you are asked for the name
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981 of the score file, it's name.of.group.SCORE for rules valid in
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982 only one group or all.Score for rules valid in all groups. See the
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983 Gnus manual for the exact syntax, basically it's one big list
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984 whose elements are lists again. the first element of those lists
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985 is the header to score on, then one more list with what to match,
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986 which score to assign, when to expire the rule and how to do the
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987 matching. If you find me very interesting, you could e.g. add the
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988 following to your all.Score:
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989
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990 @example
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991 (("references" ("hschmi22.userfqdn.rz-online.de" 500 nil s))
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992 ("message-id" ("hschmi22.userfqdn.rz-online.de" 999 nil s)))
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993 @end example
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994 @noindent
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995
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996 This would add 999 to the score of messages written by me
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997 and 500 to the score of messages which are a (possibly
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998 indirect) answer to a message written by me. Of course
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999 nobody with a sane mind would do this :-)
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1000
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1001 The third alternative is adaptive scoring. This means Gnus
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1002 watches you and tries to find out what you find
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1003 interesting and what annoying and sets up rules
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1004 which reflect this. Adaptive scoring can be a huge help
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1005 when reading high traffic groups. If you want to activate
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1006 adaptive scoring say
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1007
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1008 @example
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1009 (setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring t)
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1010 @end example
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1012
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1017
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1018 How can I disable threading in some (e.g. mail-) groups, or
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1019 set other variables specific for some groups?
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1020
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1023 While in group buffer move point over the group and hit
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1024 @samp{G c}, this opens a buffer where you
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1025 can set options for the group. At the bottom of the buffer
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1026 you'll find an item that allows you to set variables
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1027 locally for the group. To disable threading enter
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1028 gnus-show-threads as name of variable and nil as
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1029 value. Hit button done at the top of the buffer when
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1030 you're ready.
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1034
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1035 Can I highlight messages written by me and follow-ups to
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1036 those?
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1037
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1038 @subsubheading Answer
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1039
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1040 Stop those "Can I ..." questions, the answer is always yes
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1041 in Gnus Country :-). It's a three step process: First we
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1042 make faces (specifications of how summary-line shall look
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1043 like) for those postings, then we'll give them some
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1044 special score and finally we'll tell Gnus to use the new
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1045 faces. You can find detailed instructions on how to do it on
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1046 @uref{http://my.gnus.org/node/view/224, my.gnus.org}
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1050
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1051 The number of total messages in a group which Gnus
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1052 displays in group buffer is by far to high, especially in
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1053 mail groups. Is this a bug?
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1054
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1055 @subsubheading Answer
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1056
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1057 No, that's a matter of design of Gnus, fixing this would
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1058 mean reimplementation of major parts of Gnus'
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1059 back ends. Gnus thinks "highest-article-number -
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1060 lowest-article-number = total-number-of-articles". This
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1061 works OK for Usenet groups, but if you delete and move
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1062 many messages in mail groups, this fails. To cure the
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1063 symptom, enter the group via @samp{C-u RET}
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1064 (this makes Gnus get all messages), then
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1065 hit @samp{M P b} to mark all messages and
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1066 then say @samp{B m name.of.group} to move
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1067 all messages to the group they have been in before, they
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1068 get new message numbers in this process and the count is
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1069 right again (until you delete and move your mail to other
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1070 groups again).
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1072 @node FAQ 4-13
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1073 @subsubheading Question 4.13
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1074
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1075 I don't like the layout of summary and article buffer, how
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1076 to change it? Perhaps even a three pane display?
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1077
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1078 @subsubheading Answer
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1079
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1080 You can control the windows configuration by calling the
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1081 function gnus-add-configuration. The syntax is a bit
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1082 complicated but explained very well in the manual node
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1083 "Window Layout". Some popular examples:
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1084
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1085 Instead 25% summary 75% article buffer 35% summary and 65%
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1086 article (the 1.0 for article means "take the remaining
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1087 space"):
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1088
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1089 @example
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1090 (gnus-add-configuration
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1091 '(article (vertical 1.0 (summary .35 point) (article 1.0))))
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1092 @end example
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1093 @noindent
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1094
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1095 A three pane layout, Group buffer on the left, summary
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1096 buffer top-right, article buffer bottom-right:
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1097
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1098 @example
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1099 (gnus-add-configuration
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1100 '(article
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1101 (horizontal 1.0
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1102 (vertical 25
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1103 (group 1.0))
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1104 (vertical 1.0
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1105 (summary 0.25 point)
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1106 (article 1.0)))))
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1107 (gnus-add-configuration
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1108 '(summary
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1109 (horizontal 1.0
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1110 (vertical 25
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1111 (group 1.0))
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1112 (vertical 1.0
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1113 (summary 1.0 point)))))
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1114 @end example
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1115 @noindent
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1119
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1120 I don't like the way the Summary buffer looks, how to tweak it?
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1121
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1122 @subsubheading Answer
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1123
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1124 You've got to play around with the variable
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1125 gnus-summary-line-format. It's value is a string of
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1126 symbols which stand for things like author, date, subject
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1127 etc. A list of the available specifiers can be found in the
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1128 manual node "Summary Buffer Lines" and the often forgotten
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1129 node "Formatting Variables" and it's sub-nodes. There
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1130 you'll find useful things like positioning the cursor and
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1131 tabulators which allow you a summary in table form, but
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1132 sadly hard tabulators are broken in 5.8.8.
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1133
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1134 Since 5.10, Gnus offers you some very nice new specifiers,
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1135 e.g. %B which draws a thread-tree and %&user-date which
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1136 gives you a date where the details are dependent of the
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1137 articles age. Here's an example which uses both:
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1138
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1139 @example
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1140 (setq gnus-summary-line-format ":%U%R %B %s %-60=|%4L |%-20,20f |%&user-date; \n")
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1141 @end example
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1142 @noindent
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1143
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1144 resulting in:
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1145
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1146 @example
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1147 :O Re: [Richard Stallman] rfc2047.el | 13 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt |Sat 23:06
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1148 :O Re: Revival of the ding-patches list | 13 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt |Sat 23:12
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1149 :R > Re: Find correct list of articles for a gro| 25 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt |Sat 23:16
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1150 :O \-> ... | 21 |Kai Grossjohann | 0:01
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1151 :R > Re: Cry for help: deuglify.el - moving stuf| 28 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt |Sat 23:34
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1152 :O \-> ... | 115 |Raymond Scholz | 1:24
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1153 :O \-> ... | 19 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt |15:33
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1154 :O Slow mailing list | 13 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt |Sat 23:49
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1155 :O Re: `@@' mark not documented | 13 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt |Sat 23:50
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1156 :R > Re: Gnus still doesn't count messages prope| 23 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt |Sat 23:57
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1157 :O \-> ... | 18 |Kai Grossjohann | 0:35
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1158 :O \-> ... | 13 |Lars Magne Ingebrigt | 0:56
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1159 @end example
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1160 @noindent
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1163 @subsubheading Question 4.15
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1164
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1165 How to split incoming mails in several groups?
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1166
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1167 @subsubheading Answer
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1168
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1169 Gnus offers two possibilities for splitting mail, the easy
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1170 nnmail-split-methods and the more powerful Fancy Mail
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1171 Splitting. I'll only talk about the first one, refer to
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1172 the manual, node "Fancy Mail Splitting" for the latter.
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1173
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1174 The value of nnmail-split-methods is a list, each element
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1176 the form "group where matching articles should go to",
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1177 "regular expression which has to be matched", the first
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1178 rule which matches wins. The last rule must always be a
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1179 general rule (regular expression .*) which denotes where
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1180 articles should go which don't match any other rule. If
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1181 the folder doesn't exist yet, it will be created as soon
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1182 as an article lands there. By default the mail will be
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1183 send to all groups whose rules match. If you
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1184 don't want that (you probably don't want), say
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1185
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1186 @example
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1187 (setq nnmail-crosspost nil)
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1188 @end example
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1189 @noindent
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1190
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1194 my nnmail-split-methods. Note that I send duplicates in a
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1195 special group and that the default group is spam, since I
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1196 filter all mails out which are from some list I'm
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1197 subscribed to or which are addressed directly to me
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1198 before. Those rules kill about 80% of the Spam which
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1199 reaches me (Email addresses are changed to prevent spammers
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1200 from using them):
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1201
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1202 @example
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1203 (setq nnmail-split-methods
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1204 '(("duplicates" "^Gnus-Warning:.*duplicate")
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1205 ("XEmacs-NT" "^\\(To:\\|CC:\\).*localpart@@xemacs.invalid.*")
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1206 ("Gnus-Tut" "^\\(To:\\|CC:\\).*localpart@@socha.invalid.*")
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1207 ("tcsh" "^\\(To:\\|CC:\\).*localpart@@mx.gw.invalid.*")
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1208 ("BAfH" "^\\(To:\\|CC:\\).*localpart@@.*uni-muenchen.invalid.*")
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1209 ("Hamster-src" "^\\(CC:\\|To:\\).*hamster-sourcen@@yahoogroups.\\(de\\|com\\).*")
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1210 ("Tagesschau" "^From: tagesschau <localpart@@www.tagesschau.invalid>$")
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1211 ("Replies" "^\\(CC:\\|To:\\).*localpart@@Frank-Schmitt.invalid.*")
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1212 ("EK" "^From:.*\\(localpart@@privateprovider.invalid\\|localpart@@workplace.invalid\\).*")
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1213 ("Spam" "^Content-Type:.*\\(ks_c_5601-1987\\|EUC-KR\\|big5\\|iso-2022-jp\\).*")
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1214 ("Spam" "^Subject:.*\\(This really work\\|XINGA\\|ADV:\\|XXX\\|adult\\|sex\\).*")
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1215 ("Spam" "^Subject:.*\\(\=\?ks_c_5601-1987\?\\|\=\?euc-kr\?\\|\=\?big5\?\\).*")
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1216 ("Spam" "^X-Mailer:\\(.*BulkMailer.*\\|.*MIME::Lite.*\\|\\)")
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1217 ("Spam" "^X-Mailer:\\(.*CyberCreek Avalanche\\|.*http\:\/\/GetResponse\.com\\)")
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1218 ("Spam" "^From:.*\\(verizon\.net\\|prontomail\.com\\|money\\|ConsumerDirect\\).*")
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1219 ("Spam" "^Delivered-To: GMX delivery to spamtrap@@gmx.invalid$")
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1220 ("Spam" "^Received: from link2buy.com")
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1221 ("Spam" "^CC: .*azzrael@@t-online.invalid")
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1222 ("Spam" "^X-Mailer-Version: 1.50 BETA")
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1223 ("Uni" "^\\(CC:\\|To:\\).*localpart@@uni-koblenz.invalid.*")
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1224 ("Inbox" "^\\(CC:\\|To:\\).*\\(my\ name\\|address@@one.invalid\\|adress@@two.invalid\\)")
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1225 ("Spam" "")))
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1226 @end example
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1227 @noindent
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1228
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1229 @node FAQ 5 - Composing messages
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1230 @subsection Composing messages
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1231
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1232 @menu
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1233 * FAQ 5-1:: What are the basic commands I need to know for sending
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1234 mail and postings?
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1235 * FAQ 5-2:: How to enable automatic word-wrap when composing
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1236 messages?
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1237 * FAQ 5-3:: How to set stuff like From, Organization, Reply-To,
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1238 signature...?
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1239 * FAQ 5-4:: Can I set things like From, Signature etc group based on
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1240 the group I post too?
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1241 * FAQ 5-5:: Is there a spell-checker? Perhaps even on-the-fly
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1242 spell-checking?
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1243 * FAQ 5-6:: Can I set the dictionary based on the group I'm posting
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1244 to?
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1245 * FAQ 5-7:: Is there some kind of address-book, so I needn't
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1246 remember all those email addresses?
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1247 * FAQ 5-8:: Sometimes I see little images at the top of article
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1248 buffer. What's that and how can I send one with my postings,
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1249 too?
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1250 * FAQ 5-9:: Sometimes I accidentally hit r instead of f in
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1251 newsgroups. Can Gnus warn me, when I'm replying by mail in
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1252 newsgroups?
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1253 * FAQ 5-10:: How to tell Gnus not to generate a sender header?
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1254 * FAQ 5-11:: I want Gnus to locally store copies of my send mail and
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1255 news, how to do it?
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1256 * FAQ 5-12:: I want Gnus to kill the buffer after successful sending
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1257 instead of keeping it alive as "Sent mail to...", how to do it?
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1258 * FAQ 5-13:: People tell me my Message-IDs are not correct, why
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1259 aren't they and how to fix it?
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1260 @end menu
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1262 @node FAQ 5-1
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1263 @subsubheading Question 5.1
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1264
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1265 What are the basic commands I need to know for sending mail and postings?
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1266
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1267 @subsubheading Answer
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1268
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1269 To start composing a new mail hit @samp{m}
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1270 either in Group or Summary buffer, for a posting, it's
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1271 either @samp{a} in Group buffer and
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1272 filling the Newsgroups header manually
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1273 or @samp{a} in the Summary buffer of the
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1274 group where the posting shall be send to. Replying by mail
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1275 is
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1276 @samp{r} if you don't want to cite the
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1277 author, or import the cited text manually and
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1278 @samp{R} to cite the text of the original
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1279 message. For a follow up to a newsgroup, it's
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1280 @samp{f} and @samp{F}
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1281 (analogously to @samp{r} and
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1282 @samp{R}).
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1283
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1284 Enter new headers above the line saying "--text follows
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1285 this line--", enter the text below the line. When ready
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1286 hit @samp{C-c C-c}, to send the message,
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1287 if you want to finish it later hit @samp{C-c
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1288 C-d} to save it in the drafts group, where you
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1289 can start editing it again by saying @samp{D
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1290 e}.
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1292 @node FAQ 5-2
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1293 @subsubheading Question 5.2
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1294
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1295 How to enable automatic word-wrap when composing messages?
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1296
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1297 @subsubheading Answer
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1298
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1299 Starting from No Gnus, automatic word-wrap is already enabled by
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1300 default, see the variable message-fill-column.
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1302 For other versions of Gnus, say
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1304 @example
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1305 (unless (boundp 'message-fill-column)
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1306 (add-hook 'message-mode-hook
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1307 (lambda ()
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1308 (setq fill-column 72)
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1309 (turn-on-auto-fill))))
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1310 @end example
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1311 @noindent
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1312
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1313 in ~/.gnus.el.
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1315 You can reformat a paragraph by hitting @samp{M-q}
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1316 (as usual).
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1317
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1318 @node FAQ 5-3
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1319 @subsubheading Question 5.3
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1320
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1321 How to set stuff like From, Organization, Reply-To, signature...?
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1323 @subsubheading Answer
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1325 There are other ways, but you should use posting styles
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1327 This example should make the syntax clear:
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1329 @example
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1332 (name "Frank Schmitt")
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1334 (organization "Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi")
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1335 (signature-file "~/.signature")
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1336 ("X-SampleHeader" "foobar")
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1338 @end example
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1339 @noindent
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1341 The ".*" means that this settings are the default ones
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1344 organization, address, name or body. The attribute name
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1345 can also be a string. In that case, this will be used as
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1346 a header name, and the value will be inserted in the
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1347 headers of the article; if the value is `nil', the header
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1348 name will be removed. You can also say (eval (foo bar)),
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1349 then the function foo will be evaluated with argument bar
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1350 and the result will be thrown away.
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1352 @node FAQ 5-4
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1353 @subsubheading Question 5.4
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1354
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1355 Can I set things like From, Signature etc group based on the group I post too?
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1356
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1357 @subsubheading Answer
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1358
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1359 That's the strength of posting styles. Before, we used ".*"
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1360 to set the default for all groups. You can use a regexp
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1361 like "^gmane" and the following settings are only applied
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1362 to postings you send to the gmane hierarchy, use
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1363 ".*binaries" instead and they will be applied to postings
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1364 send to groups containing the string binaries in their
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1365 name etc.
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1366
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1367 You can instead of specifying a regexp specify a function
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1368 which is evaluated, only if it returns true, the
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1369 corresponding settings take effect. Two interesting
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1370 candidates for this are message-news-p which returns t if
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1371 the current Group is a newsgroup and the corresponding
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1372 message-mail-p.
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1373
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1374 Note that all forms that match are applied, that means in
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1375 the example below, when I post to
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1376 gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general, the settings under
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1377 ".*" are applied and the settings under message-news-p and
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1378 those under "^gmane" and those under
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1379 "^gmane\\.mail\\.spam\\.spamassassin\\.general$". Because
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1380 of this put general settings at the top and specific ones
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1381 at the bottom.
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1382
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1383 @example
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1384 (setq gnus-posting-styles
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1385 '((".*" ;;default
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1386 (name "Frank Schmitt")
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1387 (organization "Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi")
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1388 (signature-file "~/.signature"))
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1389 ((message-news-p) ;;Usenet news?
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1390 (address "mySpamTrap@@Frank-Schmitt.invalid")
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1391 (reply-to "hereRealRepliesOnlyPlease@@Frank-Schmitt.invalid"))
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1392 ((message-mail-p) ;;mail?
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1393 (address "usedForMails@@Frank-Schmitt.invalid"))
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1394 ("^gmane" ;;this is mail, too in fact
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1395 (address "usedForMails@@Frank-Schmitt.invalid")
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1396 (reply-to nil))
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1397 ("^gmane\\.mail\\.spam\\.spamassassin\\.general$"
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1398 (eval (set (make-local-variable 'message-sendmail-envelope-from)
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1399 "Azzrael@@rz-online.de")))))
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1400 @end example
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1401 @noindent
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1405
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1406 Is there a spell-checker? Perhaps even on-the-fly spell-checking?
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1407
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1408 @subsubheading Answer
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1409
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1410 You can use ispell.el to spell-check stuff in Emacs. So the
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1411 first thing to do is to make sure that you've got either
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1412 @uref{http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/fmg-members/geoff/ispell.html, ispell}
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1413 or @uref{http://aspell.sourceforge.net/, aspell}
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1414 installed and in your Path. Then you need
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1415 @uref{http://www.kdstevens.com/~stevens/ispell-page.html, ispell.el}
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1416 and for on-the-fly spell-checking
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1417 @uref{http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/personnel/Manuel.Serrano/flyspell/flyspell.html, flyspell.el}.
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1418 Ispell.el is shipped with Emacs and available through the XEmacs package system,
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1419 flyspell.el is shipped with Emacs and part of XEmacs text-modes package which is
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1420 available through the package system, so there should be no need to install them
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1421 manually.
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1422
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1423 Ispell.el assumes you use ispell, if you choose aspell say
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1424
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1425 @example
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1426 (setq ispell-program-name "aspell")
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1427 @end example
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1428 @noindent
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1429
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1430 in your Emacs configuration file.
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1431
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1432 If you want your outgoing messages to be spell-checked, say
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1433
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1434 @example
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1435 (add-hook 'message-send-hook 'ispell-message)
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1436 @end example
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1437 @noindent
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1438
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1439 In your ~/.gnus.el, if you prefer on-the-fly spell-checking say
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1440
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1441 @example
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1442 (add-hook 'message-mode-hook (lambda () (flyspell-mode 1)))
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1443 @end example
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1444 @noindent
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1447 @subsubheading Question 5.6
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1448
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1449 Can I set the dictionary based on the group I'm posting to?
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1450
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1451 @subsubheading Answer
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1452
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1453 Yes, say something like
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1454
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1455 @example
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1456 (add-hook 'gnus-select-group-hook
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1457 (lambda ()
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1458 (cond
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1459 ((string-match
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1460 "^de\\." (gnus-group-real-name gnus-newsgroup-name))
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1461 (ispell-change-dictionary "deutsch8"))
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1462 (t
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1463 (ispell-change-dictionary "english")))))
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1464 @end example
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1465 @noindent
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1466
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1467 in ~/.gnus.el. Change "^de\\." and "deutsch8" to something
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1468 that suits your needs.
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1470 @node FAQ 5-7
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1472
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1473 Is there some kind of address-book, so I needn't remember
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1474 all those email addresses?
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1475
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1476 @subsubheading Answer
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1477
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1478 There's an very basic solution for this, mail aliases.
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1479 You can store your mail addresses in a ~/.mailrc file using a simple
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1480 alias syntax:
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1481
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1482 @example
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1483 alias al "Al <al@@english-heritage.invalid>"
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1484 @end example
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1485 @noindent
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1487 Then typing your alias (followed by a space or punctuation
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1488 character) on a To: or Cc: line in the message buffer will
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1489 cause Gnus to insert the full address for you. See the
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1490 node "Mail Aliases" in Message (not Gnus) manual for
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1491 details.
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1492
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1493 However, what you really want is the Insidious Big Brother
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1494 Database bbdb. Get it through the XEmacs package system or from
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1495 @uref{http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/, bbdb's homepage}.
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1496 Now place the following in ~/.gnus.el, to activate bbdb for Gnus:
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1497
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1498 @example
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1499 (require 'bbdb)
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1500 (bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message)
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1501 @end example
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1502 @noindent
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1504 Now you probably want some general bbdb configuration,
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1505 place them in ~/.emacs:
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1506
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1507 @example
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1508 (require 'bbdb)
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1509 ;;If you don't live in Northern America, you should disable the
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1510 ;;syntax check for telephone numbers by saying
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1511 (setq bbdb-north-american-phone-numbers-p nil)
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1512 ;;Tell bbdb about your email address:
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1513 (setq bbdb-user-mail-names
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1514 (regexp-opt '("Your.Email@@here.invalid"
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1515 "Your.other@@mail.there.invalid")))
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1516 ;;cycling while completing email addresses
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1517 (setq bbdb-complete-name-allow-cycling t)
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1518 ;;No popup-buffers
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1519 (setq bbdb-use-pop-up nil)
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1520 @end example
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1521 @noindent
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1522
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1523 Now you should be ready to go. Say @samp{M-x bbdb RET
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1524 RET} to open a bbdb buffer showing all
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1525 entries. Say @samp{c} to create a new
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1526 entry, @samp{b} to search your BBDB and
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1527 @samp{C-o} to add a new field to an
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1528 entry. If you want to add a sender to the BBDB you can
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1529 also just hit `:' on the posting in the summary buffer and
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1530 you are done. When you now compose a new mail,
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1531 hit @samp{TAB} to cycle through know
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1532 recipients.
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1534 @node FAQ 5-8
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1535 @subsubheading Question 5.8
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1536
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1537 Sometimes I see little images at the top of article
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1538 buffer. What's that and how can I send one with my
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1539 postings, too?
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1540
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1541 @subsubheading Answer
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1542
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1543 Those images are called X-Faces. They are 48*48 pixel b/w
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1544 pictures, encoded in a header line. If you want to include
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1545 one in your posts, you've got to convert some image to a
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1546 X-Face. So fire up some image manipulation program (say
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1547 Gimp), open the image you want to include, cut out the
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1548 relevant part, reduce color depth to 1 bit, resize to
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1549 48*48 and save as bitmap. Now you should get the compface
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1550 package from
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1551 @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/faces/, this site}.
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1552 and create the actual X-face by saying
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1553
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1554 @example
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1555 cat file.xbm | xbm2ikon | compface > file.face
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1556 cat file.face | sed 's/\\/\\\\/g;s/\"/\\\"/g;' > file.face.quoted
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1557 @end example
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1558 @noindent
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1559
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1560 If you can't use compface, there's an online X-face converter at
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1561 @uref{http://www.dairiki.org/xface/}.
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1562 If you use MS Windows, you could also use the WinFace program from
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1563 @uref{http://www.xs4all.nl/~walterln/winface/}.
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1564 Now you only have to tell Gnus to include the X-face in your postings by saying
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1565
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1566 @example
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1567 (setq message-default-headers
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1568 (with-temp-buffer
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1569 (insert "X-Face: ")
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1570 (insert-file-contents "~/.xface")
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1571 (buffer-string)))
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1572 @end example
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1573 @noindent
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1574
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1575 in ~/.gnus.el. If you use Gnus 5.10, you can simply add an entry
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1576
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1577 @example
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1578 (x-face-file "~/.xface")
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1579 @end example
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1580 @noindent
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1581
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1582 to gnus-posting-styles.
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1583
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1584 @node FAQ 5-9
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1585 @subsubheading Question 5.9
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1586
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1587 Sometimes I accidentally hit r instead of f in
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1588 newsgroups. Can Gnus warn me, when I'm replying by mail in
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1589 newsgroups?
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1590
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1591 @subsubheading Answer
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1592
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1593 Put this in ~/.gnus.el:
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1594
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1595 @example
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1596 (setq gnus-confirm-mail-reply-to-news t)
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1597 @end example
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1598 @noindent
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1599
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1600 if you already use Gnus 5.10, if you still use 5.8.8 or
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1601 5.9 try this instead:
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1602
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1603 @example
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1604 (eval-after-load "gnus-msg"
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1605 '(unless (boundp 'gnus-confirm-mail-reply-to-news)
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1606 (defadvice gnus-summary-reply (around reply-in-news activate)
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1607 "Request confirmation when replying to news."
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1608 (interactive)
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1609 (when (or (not (gnus-news-group-p gnus-newsgroup-name))
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1610 (y-or-n-p "Really reply by mail to article author? "))
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1611 ad-do-it))))
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1612 @end example
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1613 @noindent
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1615 @node FAQ 5-10
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1616 @subsubheading Question 5.10
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1617
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1618 How to tell Gnus not to generate a sender header?
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1619
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1620 @subsubheading Answer
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1621
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1622 Since 5.10 Gnus doesn't generate a sender header by
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1623 default. For older Gnus' try this in ~/.gnus.el:
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1624
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1625 @example
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1626 (eval-after-load "message"
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1627 '(add-to-list 'message-syntax-checks '(sender . disabled)))
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1628 @end example
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1629 @noindent
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1631 @node FAQ 5-11
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1632 @subsubheading Question 5.11
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1633
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1634 I want Gnus to locally store copies of my send mail and
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1635 news, how to do it?
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1636
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1637 @subsubheading Answer
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1638
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1639 You must set the variable gnus-message-archive-group to do
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1640 this. You can set it to a string giving the name of the
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1641 group where the copies shall go or like in the example
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1642 below use a function which is evaluated and which returns
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1643 the group to use.
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1644
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1645 @example
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1646 (setq gnus-message-archive-group
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1647 '((if (message-news-p)
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1648 "nnml:Send-News"
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1649 "nnml:Send-Mail")))
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1650 @end example
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1651 @noindent
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1653 @node FAQ 5-12
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1654 @subsubheading Question 5.12
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1655
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1656 I want Gnus to kill the buffer after successful sending instead of keeping
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1657 it alive as "Sent mail to...", how to do it?
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1659 @subsubheading Answer
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1661 Add this to your ~/.gnus:
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1663 @example
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1664 (setq message-kill-buffer-on-exit t)
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1665 @end example
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1666 @noindent
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1670
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1671 People tell me my Message-IDs are not correct, why
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1672 aren't they and how to fix it?
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1673
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1674 @subsubheading Answer
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1675
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1676 The message-ID is an unique identifier for messages you
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1677 send. To make it unique, Gnus need to know which machine
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1678 name to put after the "@@". If the name of the machine
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1679 where Gnus is running isn't suitable (it probably isn't
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1680 at most private machines) you can tell Gnus what to use
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1681 by saying:
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1682
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1683 @example
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1684 (setq message-user-fqdn "yourmachine.yourdomain.tld")
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1685 @end example
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1686 @noindent
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1687
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1688 in ~/.gnus.el. If you use Gnus 5.9 or earlier, you can use this
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1689 instead (works for newer versions as well):
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1690
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1691 @example
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1692 (eval-after-load "message"
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1693 '(let ((fqdn "yourmachine.yourdomain.tld"));; <-- Edit this!
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1694 (if (boundp 'message-user-fqdn)
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1695 (setq message-user-fqdn fqdn)
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1696 (gnus-message 1 "Redefining `message-make-fqdn'.")
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1697 (defun message-make-fqdn ()
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1698 "Return user's fully qualified domain name."
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1699 fqdn))))
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1700 @end example
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1701 @noindent
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1702
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1703 If you have no idea what to insert for
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1704 "yourmachine.yourdomain.tld", you've got several
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1705 choices. You can either ask your provider if he allows
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1706 you to use something like
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1707 yourUserName.userfqdn.provider.net, or you can use
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1708 somethingUnique.yourdomain.tld if you own the domain
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1709 yourdomain.tld, or you can register at a service which
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1710 gives private users a FQDN for free.
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1711
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1712 Finally you can tell Gnus not to generate a Message-ID
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1713 for News at all (and letting the server do the job) by saying
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1714
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1715 @example
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1716 (setq message-required-news-headers
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1717 (remove' Message-ID message-required-news-headers))
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1718 @end example
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1719 @noindent
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1720
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1721 you can also tell Gnus not to generate Message-IDs for mail by saying
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1722
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1723 @example
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1724 (setq message-required-mail-headers
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1725 (remove' Message-ID message-required-mail-headers))
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1726 @end example
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1727 @noindent
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1728
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1729 , however some mail servers don't generate proper
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1730 Message-IDs, too, so test if your Mail Server behaves
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1731 correctly by sending yourself a Mail and looking at the Message-ID.
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1732
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1733 @node FAQ 6 - Old messages
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1734 @subsection Old messages
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1735
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1736 @menu
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1737 * FAQ 6-1:: How to import my old mail into Gnus?
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1738 * FAQ 6-2:: How to archive interesting messages?
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1739 * FAQ 6-3:: How to search for a specific message?
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1740 * FAQ 6-4:: How to get rid of old unwanted mail?
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1741 * FAQ 6-5:: I want that all read messages are expired (at least in
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1742 some groups). How to do it?
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1743 * FAQ 6-6:: I don't want expiration to delete my mails but to move
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1744 them to another group.
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1745 @end menu
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1746
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1747 @node FAQ 6-1
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1748 @subsubheading Question 6.1
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1749
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1750 How to import my old mail into Gnus?
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1751
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1752 @subsubheading Answer
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1753
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1754 The easiest way is to tell your old mail program to
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1755 export the messages in mbox format. Most Unix mailers
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1756 are able to do this, if you come from the MS Windows
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1757 world, you may find tools at
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1758 @uref{http://mbx2mbox.sourceforge.net/}.
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1759
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1760 Now you've got to import this mbox file into Gnus. To do
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1761 this, create a nndoc group based on the mbox file by
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1762 saying @samp{G f /path/file.mbox RET} in
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1763 Group buffer. You now have read-only access to your
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1764 mail. If you want to import the messages to your normal
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1765 Gnus mail groups hierarchy, enter the nndoc group you've
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1766 just created by saying @samp{C-u RET}
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1767 (thus making sure all messages are retrieved), mark all
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1768 messages by saying @samp{M P b} and
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1769 either copy them to the desired group by saying
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1770 @samp{B c name.of.group RET} or send them
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1771 through nnmail-split-methods (respool them) by saying
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1772 @samp{B r}.
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1773
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1774 @node FAQ 6-2
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1775 @subsubheading Question 6.2
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1776
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1777 How to archive interesting messages?
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1778
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1779 @subsubheading Answer
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1780
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1781 If you stumble across an interesting message, say in
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1782 gnu.emacs.gnus and want to archive it there are several
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1783 solutions. The first and easiest is to save it to a file
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1784 by saying @samp{O f}. However, wouldn't
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1785 it be much more convenient to have more direct access to
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1786 the archived message from Gnus? If you say yes, put this
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1787 snippet by Frank Haun <pille3003@@fhaun.de> in
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1788 ~/.gnus.el:
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1789
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1790 @example
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1791 (defun my-archive-article (&optional n)
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1792 "Copies one or more article(s) to a corresponding `nnml:' group, e.g.
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1793 `gnus.ding' goes to `nnml:1.gnus.ding'. And `nnml:List-gnus.ding' goes
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1794 to `nnml:1.List-gnus-ding'.
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1795
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1796 Use process marks or mark a region in the summary buffer to archive
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1797 more then one article."
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1798 (interactive "P")
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1799 (let ((archive-name
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1800 (format
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1801 "nnml:1.%s"
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1802 (if (featurep 'xemacs)
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1803 (replace-in-string gnus-newsgroup-name "^.*:" "")
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1804 (replace-regexp-in-string "^.*:" "" gnus-newsgroup-name)))))
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1805 (gnus-summary-copy-article n archive-name)))
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1806 @end example
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1807 @noindent
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1808
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1809 You can now say @samp{M-x
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1810 my-archive-article} in summary buffer to
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1811 archive the article under the cursor in a nnml
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1812 group. (Change nnml to your preferred back end)
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1813
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1814 Of course you can also make sure the cache is enabled by saying
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1815
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1816 @example
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1817 (setq gnus-use-cache t)
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1818 @end example
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1819 @noindent
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1820
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1821 then you only have to set either the tick or the dormant
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1822 mark for articles you want to keep, setting the read
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1823 mark will remove them from cache.
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1825 @node FAQ 6-3
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1826 @subsubheading Question 6.3
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1827
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1828 How to search for a specific message?
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1829
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1830 @subsubheading Answer
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1831
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1832 There are several ways for this, too. For a posting from
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1833 a Usenet group the easiest solution is probably to ask
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1834 @uref{http://groups.google.com, groups.google.com},
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1835 if you found the posting there, tell Google to display
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1836 the raw message, look for the message-id, and say
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1837 @samp{M-^ the@@message.id RET} in a
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1838 summary buffer.
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1839 Since Gnus 5.10 there's also a Gnus interface for
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1840 groups.google.com which you can call with
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1841 @samp{G W}) in group buffer.
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1842
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1843 Another idea which works for both mail and news groups
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1844 is to enter the group where the message you are
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1845 searching is and use the standard Emacs search
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1846 @samp{C-s}, it's smart enough to look at
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1847 articles in collapsed threads, too. If you want to
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1848 search bodies, too try @samp{M-s}
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1849 instead. Further on there are the
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1850 gnus-summary-limit-to-foo functions, which can help you,
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1851 too.
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1852
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1853 Of course you can also use grep to search through your
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1854 local mail, but this is both slow for big archives and
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1855 inconvenient since you are not displaying the found mail
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1856 in Gnus. Here comes nnir into action. Nnir is a front end
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1857 to search engines like swish-e or swish++ and
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1858 others. You index your mail with one of those search
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1859 engines and with the help of nnir you can search trough
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1860 the indexed mail and generate a temporary group with all
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1861 messages which met your search criteria. If this sound
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1862 cool to you get nnir.el from
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1863 @uref{ftp://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/src/emacs/}
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1864 or @uref{ftp://ftp.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/pub/src/emacs/}.
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1865 Instructions on how to use it are at the top of the file.
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1866
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1867 @node FAQ 6-4
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1868 @subsubheading Question 6.4
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1869
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1870 How to get rid of old unwanted mail?
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1871
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1872 @subsubheading Answer
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1873
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1874 You can of course just mark the mail you don't need
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1875 anymore by saying @samp{#} with point
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1876 over the mail and then say @samp{B DEL}
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1877 to get rid of them forever. You could also instead of
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1878 actually deleting them, send them to a junk-group by
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1879 saying @samp{B m nnml:trash-bin} which
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1880 you clear from time to time, but both are not the intended
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1881 way in Gnus.
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1882
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1883 In Gnus, we let mail expire like news expires on a news
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1884 server. That means you tell Gnus the message is
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1885 expirable (you tell Gnus "I don't need this mail
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1886 anymore") by saying @samp{E} with point
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1887 over the mail in summary buffer. Now when you leave the
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1888 group, Gnus looks at all messages which you marked as
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1889 expirable before and if they are old enough (default is
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1890 older than a week) they are deleted.
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1891
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1892 @node FAQ 6-5
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1893 @subsubheading Question 6.5
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1894
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1895 I want that all read messages are expired (at least in
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1896 some groups). How to do it?
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1897
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1898 @subsubheading Answer
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1899
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1900 If you want all read messages to be expired (e.g. in
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1901 mailing lists where there's an online archive), you've
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1902 got two choices: auto-expire and
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1903 total-expire. Auto-expire means, that every article
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1904 which has no marks set and is selected for reading is
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1905 marked as expirable, Gnus hits @samp{E}
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1906 for you every time you read a message. Total-expire
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1907 follows a slightly different approach, here all article
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1908 where the read mark is set are expirable.
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1909
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1910 To activate auto-expire, include auto-expire in the
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1911 Group parameters for the group. (Hit @samp{G
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1912 c} in summary buffer with point over the
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1913 group to change group parameters). For total-expire add
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1914 total-expire to the group-parameters.
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1915
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1916 Which method you choose is merely a matter of taste:
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1917 Auto-expire is faster, but it doesn't play together with
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1918 Adaptive Scoring, so if you want to use this feature,
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1919 you should use total-expire.
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1920
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1921 If you want a message to be excluded from expiration in
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1922 a group where total or auto expire is active, set either
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1923 tick (hit @samp{u}) or dormant mark (hit
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1924 @samp{u}), when you use auto-expire, you
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1925 can also set the read mark (hit
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1926 @samp{d}).
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1927
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1928 @node FAQ 6-6
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1929 @subsubheading Question 6.6
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1930
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1931 I don't want expiration to delete my mails but to move them
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1932 to another group.
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1933
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1934 @subsubheading Answer
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1935
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1936 Say something like this in ~/.gnus.el:
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1937
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1938 @example
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1939 (setq nnmail-expiry-target "nnml:expired")
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1940 @end example
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1941 @noindent
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1942
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1943 (If you want to change the value of nnmail-expiry-target
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1944 on a per group basis see the question "How can I disable
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1945 threading in some (e.g. mail-) groups, or set other
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1946 variables specific for some groups?")
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1947
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1948 @node FAQ 7 - Gnus in a dial-up environment
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1949 @subsection Gnus in a dial-up environment
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1950
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1951 @menu
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1952 * FAQ 7-1:: I don't have a permanent connection to the net, how can I
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1953 minimize the time I've got to be connected?
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1954 * FAQ 7-2:: So what was this thing about the Agent?
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1955 * FAQ 7-3:: I want to store article bodies on disk, too. How to do
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1956 it?
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1957 * FAQ 7-4:: How to tell Gnus not to try to send mails / postings
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1958 while I'm offline?
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1959 @end menu
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1961 @node FAQ 7-1
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1962 @subsubheading Question 7.1
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1963
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1964 I don't have a permanent connection to the net, how can
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1965 I minimize the time I've got to be connected?
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1966
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1967 @subsubheading Answer
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1968
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1969 You've got basically two options: Either you use the
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1970 Gnus Agent (see below) for this, or you can install
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1971 programs which fetch your news and mail to your local
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1972 disk and Gnus reads the stuff from your local
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1973 machine.
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1974
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1975 If you want to follow the second approach, you need a
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1976 program which fetches news and offers them to Gnus, a
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1977 program which does the same for mail and a program which
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1978 receives the mail you write from Gnus and sends them
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1979 when you're online.
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1980
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1981 Let's talk about Unix systems first: For the news part,
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1982 the easiest solution is a small nntp server like
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1983 @uref{http://www.leafnode.org/, Leafnode} or
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1984 @uref{http://infa.abo.fi/~patrik/sn/, sn},
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1985 of course you can also install a full featured news
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1986 server like
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1987 @uref{http://www.isc.org/products/INN/, inn}.
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1988 Then you want to fetch your Mail, popular choices
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1989 are @uref{http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/, fetchmail}
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1990 and @uref{http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-3.0/, getmail}.
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1991 You should tell those to write the mail to your disk and
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1992 Gnus to read it from there. Last but not least the mail
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1993 sending part: This can be done with every MTA like
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1994 @uref{http://www.sendmail.org/, sendmail},
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1995 @uref{http://www.qmail.org/, postfix},
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1996 @uref{http://www.exim.org/, exim} or
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1997 @uref{http://www.qmail.org/, qmail}.
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1998
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1999 On windows boxes I'd vote for
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2000 @uref{http://www.tglsoft.de/, Hamster},
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2001 it's a small freeware, open-source program which fetches
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2002 your mail and news from remote servers and offers them
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2003 to Gnus (or any other mail and/or news reader) via nntp
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2004 respectively POP3 or IMAP. It also includes a smtp
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2005 server for receiving mails from Gnus.
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2008 @subsubheading Question 7.2
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2009
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2010 So what was this thing about the Agent?
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2011
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2012 @subsubheading Answer
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2013
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2014 The Gnus agent is part of Gnus, it allows you to fetch
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2015 mail and news and store them on disk for reading them
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2016 later when you're offline. It kind of mimics offline
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2017 newsreaders like e.g. Forte Agent. If you want to use
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2018 the Agent place the following in ~/.gnus.el if you are
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2019 still using 5.8.8 or 5.9 (it's the default since 5.10):
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2020
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2021 @example
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2022 (setq gnus-agent t)
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2023 @end example
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2024 @noindent
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2025
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2026 Now you've got to select the servers whose groups can be
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2027 stored locally. To do this, open the server buffer
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2028 (that is press @samp{^} while in the
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2029 group buffer). Now select a server by moving point to
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2030 the line naming that server. Finally, agentize the
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2031 server by typing @samp{J a}. If you
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2032 make a mistake, or change your mind, you can undo this
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2033 action by typing @samp{J r}. When
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2034 you're done, type 'q' to return to the group buffer.
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2035 Now the next time you enter a group on a agentized
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2036 server, the headers will be stored on disk and read from
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2037 there the next time you enter the group.
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2038
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2040 @subsubheading Question 7.3
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2041
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2042 I want to store article bodies on disk, too. How to do it?
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2043
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2044 @subsubheading Answer
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2045
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2046 You can tell the agent to automatically fetch the bodies
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2047 of articles which fulfill certain predicates, this is
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2048 done in a special buffer which can be reached by
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2049 saying @samp{J c} in group
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2050 buffer. Please refer to the documentation for
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2051 information which predicates are possible and how
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2052 exactly to do it.
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2053
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2054 Further on you can tell the agent manually which
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2055 articles to store on disk. There are two ways to do
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2056 this: Number one: In the summary buffer, process mark a
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2057 set of articles that shall be stored in the agent by
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2058 saying @samp{#} with point over the
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2059 article and then type @samp{J s}. The
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2060 other possibility is to set, again in the summary
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2061 buffer, downloadable (%) marks for the articles you
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2062 want by typing @samp{@@} with point over
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2063 the article and then typing @samp{J u}.
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2064 What's the difference? Well, process marks are erased as
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2065 soon as you exit the summary buffer while downloadable
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2066 marks are permanent. You can actually set downloadable
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2067 marks in several groups then use fetch session ('J s' in
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2068 the GROUP buffer) to fetch all of those articles. The
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2069 only downside is that fetch session also fetches all of
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2070 the headers for every selected group on an agentized
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2071 server. Depending on the volume of headers, the initial
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2072 fetch session could take hours.
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2074 @node FAQ 7-4
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2075 @subsubheading Question 7.4
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2076
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2077 How to tell Gnus not to try to send mails / postings
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2078 while I'm offline?
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2079
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2080 @subsubheading Answer
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2081
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2082 All you've got to do is to tell Gnus when you are online
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2083 (plugged) and when you are offline (unplugged), the rest
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2084 works automatically. You can toggle plugged/unplugged
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2085 state by saying @samp{J j} in group
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2086 buffer. To start Gnus unplugged say @samp{M-x
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2087 gnus-unplugged} instead of
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2088 @samp{M-x gnus}. Note that for this to
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2089 work, the agent must be active.
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2090
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2091 @node FAQ 8 - Getting help
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2092 @subsection Getting help
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2093
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2094 @menu
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2095 * FAQ 8-1:: How to find information and help inside Emacs?
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2096 * FAQ 8-2:: I can't find anything in the Gnus manual about X (e.g.
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2097 attachments, PGP, MIME...), is it not documented?
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2098 * FAQ 8-3:: Which websites should I know?
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2099 * FAQ 8-4:: Which mailing lists and newsgroups are there?
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2100 * FAQ 8-5:: Where to report bugs?
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2101 * FAQ 8-6:: I need real-time help, where to find it?
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2102 @end menu
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2103
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2104 @node FAQ 8-1
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2105 @subsubheading Question 8.1
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2106
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2107 How to find information and help inside Emacs?
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2108
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2109 @subsubheading Answer
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2110
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2111 The first stop should be the Gnus manual (Say
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2112 @samp{C-h i d m Gnus RET} to start the
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2113 Gnus manual, then walk through the menus or do a
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2114 full-text search with @samp{s}). Then
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2115 there are the general Emacs help commands starting with
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2116 C-h, type @samp{C-h ? ?} to get a list
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2117 of all available help commands and their meaning. Finally
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2118 @samp{M-x apropos-command} lets you
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2119 search through all available functions and @samp{M-x
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2120 apropos} searches the bound variables.
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2122 @node FAQ 8-2
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2123 @subsubheading Question 8.2
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2124
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2125 I can't find anything in the Gnus manual about X
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2127
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2128 @subsubheading Answer
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2129
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2130 There's not only the Gnus manual but also the manuals
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2131 for message, emacs-mime, sieve and pgg. Those packages
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2134 different info files, you should have a look in those
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2135 manuals, too.
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2137 @node FAQ 8-3
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2138 @subsubheading Question 8.3
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2139
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2140 Which websites should I know?
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2141
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2142 @subsubheading Answer
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2143
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2144 The two most important ones are the
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2145 @uref{http://www.gnus.org, official Gnus website}.
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2146 and it's sister site
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2147 @uref{http://my.gnus.org, my.gnus.org (MGO)},
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2148 hosting an archive of lisp snippets, howtos, a (not
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2149 really finished) tutorial and this FAQ.
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2150
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2151 Tell me about other sites which are interesting.
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2153 @node FAQ 8-4
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2154 @subsubheading Question 8.4
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2155
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2156 Which mailing lists and newsgroups are there?
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2157
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2158 @subsubheading Answer
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2159
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2160 There's the newsgroup gnu.emacs.gnus (also available as
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2161 @uref{http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.user,
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2162 gmane.emacs.gnus.user}) which deals with general Gnus
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2163 questions. If you have questions about development versions of
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2164 Gnus, you should better ask on the ding mailing list, see below.
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2165
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2166 If you want to stay in the big8,
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2167 news.software.newssreaders is also read by some Gnus
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2168 users (but chances for qualified help are much better in
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2169 the above groups). If you speak German, there's
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2170 de.comm.software.gnus.
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2173 Gnus. You can read the ding list via NNTP, too under the name
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2174 @uref{http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general,
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2175 gmane.emacs.gnus.general} from news.gmane.org.
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2177 @node FAQ 8-5
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2180 Where to report bugs?
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2182 @subsubheading Answer
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2183
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2184 Say @samp{M-x gnus-bug}, this will start
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2185 a message to the
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2186 @email{bugs@@gnus.org, gnus bug mailing list}
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2187 including information about your environment which make
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2188 it easier to help you.
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2189
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2190 @node FAQ 8-6
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2191 @subsubheading Question 8.6
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2192
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2193 I need real-time help, where to find it?
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2194
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2195 @subsubheading Answer
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2196
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2197 Point your IRC client to irc.freenode.net, channel #gnus.
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2198
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2199 @node FAQ 9 - Tuning Gnus
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2200 @subsection Tuning Gnus
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2201
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2202 @menu
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2205 * FAQ 9-3:: Sending mail becomes slower and slower, what's up?
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2206 @end menu
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2208 @node FAQ 9-1
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2209 @subsubheading Question 9.1
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2210
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2211 Starting Gnus is really slow, how to speed it up?
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2212
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2213 @subsubheading Answer
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2214
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2215 The reason for this could be the way Gnus reads it's
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2216 active file, see the node "The Active File" in the Gnus
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2217 manual for things you might try to speed the process up.
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2218 An other idea would be to byte compile your ~/.gnus.el (say
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2219 @samp{M-x byte-compile-file RET ~/.gnus.el
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2220 RET} to do it). Finally, if you have require
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2221 statements in your .gnus, you could replace them with
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2222 eval-after-load, which loads the stuff not at startup
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2223 time, but when it's needed. Say you've got this in your
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2224 ~/.gnus.el:
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2225
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2226 @example
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2227 (require 'message)
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2228 (add-to-list 'message-syntax-checks '(sender . disabled))
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2229 @end example
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2230 @noindent
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2231
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2232 then as soon as you start Gnus, message.el is loaded. If
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2233 you replace it with
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2234
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2235 @example
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2236 (eval-after-load "message"
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2237 '(add-to-list 'message-syntax-checks '(sender . disabled)))
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2238 @end example
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2239 @noindent
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2240
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2241 it's loaded when it's needed.
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2244 @subsubheading Question 9.2
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2245
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2246 How to speed up the process of entering a group?
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2247
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2248 @subsubheading Answer
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2249
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2250 A speed killer is setting the variable
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2251 gnus-fetch-old-headers to anything different from nil,
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2252 so don't do this if speed is an issue. To speed up
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2253 building of summary say
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2254
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2255 @example
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2256 (gnus-compile)
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2257 @end example
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2258 @noindent
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2259
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2260 at the bottom of your ~/.gnus.el, this will make gnus
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2261 byte-compile things like
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2262 gnus-summary-line-format.
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2263 then you could increase the value of gc-cons-threshold
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2264 by saying something like
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2265
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2266 @example
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2267 (setq gc-cons-threshold 3500000)
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2268 @end example
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2269 @noindent
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2270
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2271 in ~/.emacs. If you don't care about width of CJK
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2272 characters or use Gnus 5.10 or younger together with a
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2273 recent GNU Emacs, you should say
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2274
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2275 @example
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2276 (setq gnus-use-correct-string-widths nil)
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2277 @end example
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2278 @noindent
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2279
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2280 in ~/.gnus.el (thanks to Jesper harder for the last
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2281 two suggestions). Finally if you are still using 5.8.8
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2282 or 5.9 and experience speed problems with summary
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2283 buffer generation, you definitely should update to
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2284 5.10 since there quite some work on improving it has
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2285 been done.
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2287 @node FAQ 9-3
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2288 @subsubheading Question 9.3
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2289
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2290 Sending mail becomes slower and slower, what's up?
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2291
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2292 @subsubheading Answer
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2293
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2294 The reason could be that you told Gnus to archive the
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2295 messages you wrote by setting
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2296 gnus-message-archive-group. Try to use a nnml group
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2297 instead of an archive group, this should bring you back
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2298 to normal speed.
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2299
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2300 @node FAQ - Glossary
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2301 @subsection Glossary
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2302
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2303 @table @dfn
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2305 @item ~/.gnus.el
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2306 When the term ~/.gnus.el is used it just means your Gnus
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2307 configuration file. You might as well call it ~/.gnus or
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2308 specify another name.
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2309
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2310 @item Back End
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2311 In Gnus terminology a back end is a virtual server, a layer
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2312 between core Gnus and the real NNTP-, POP3-, IMAP- or
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2313 whatever-server which offers Gnus a standardized interface
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2314 to functions like "get message", "get Headers" etc.
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2315
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2316 @item Emacs
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2317 When the term Emacs is used in this FAQ, it means either GNU
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2318 Emacs or XEmacs.
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2319
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2320 @item Message
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2321 In this FAQ message means a either a mail or a posting to a
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2322 Usenet Newsgroup or to some other fancy back end, no matter
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2323 of which kind it is.
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2324
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2325 @item MUA
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2326 MUA is an acronym for Mail User Agent, it's the program you
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2327 use to read and write e-mails.
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2328
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2329 @item NUA
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2330 NUA is an acronym for News User Agent, it's the program you
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2331 use to read and write Usenet news.
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2332
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2333 @end table
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2335 @ignore
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2336 arch-tag: 64dc5692-edb4-4848-a965-7aa0181acbb8
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2337 @end ignore