The Gnus Newsreader
Table of Contents
1 Don’t Panic
2 Starting Gnus
2.1 Finding the News
2.2 The Server is Down
2.3 Child Gnusae
2.4 New Groups
2.4.1 Checking New Groups
2.4.2 Subscription Methods
2.4.3 Filtering New Groups
2.5 Changing Servers
2.6 Startup Files
2.7 Auto Save
2.8 The Active File
2.9 Startup Variables
3 Group Buffer
3.1 Group Buffer Format
3.1.1 Group Line Specification
3.1.2 Group Mode Line Specification
3.1.3 Group Highlighting
3.2 Group Maneuvering
3.3 Selecting a Group
3.4 Subscription Commands
3.5 Group Data
3.6 Group Levels
3.7 Group Score
3.8 Marking Groups
3.9 Foreign Groups
3.10 Group Parameters
3.11 Listing Groups
3.12 Sorting Groups
3.13 Group Maintenance
3.14 Browse Foreign Server
3.15 Exiting Gnus
3.16 Group Topics
3.16.1 Topic Commands
3.16.2 Topic Variables
3.16.3 Topic Sorting
3.16.4 Topic Topology
3.16.5 Topic Parameters
3.17 Accessing groups of non-English names
3.18 Misc Group Stuff
3.18.1 Scanning New Messages
3.18.2 Group Information
3.18.3 Group Timestamp
3.18.4 File Commands
3.18.5 Sieve Commands
4 Summary Buffer
4.1 Summary Buffer Format
4.1.1 Summary Buffer Lines
4.1.2 To From Newsgroups
4.1.3 Summary Buffer Mode Line
4.1.4 Summary Highlighting
4.2 Summary Maneuvering
4.3 Choosing Articles
4.3.1 Choosing Commands
4.3.2 Choosing Variables
4.4 Scrolling the Article
4.5 Reply, Followup and Post
4.5.1 Summary Mail Commands
4.5.2 Summary Post Commands
4.5.3 Summary Message Commands
4.5.4 Canceling Articles
4.6 Delayed Articles
4.7 Marking Articles
4.7.1 Unread Articles
4.7.2 Read Articles
4.7.3 Other Marks
4.7.4 Setting Marks
4.7.5 Generic Marking Commands
4.7.6 Setting Process Marks
4.8 Limiting
4.9 Threading
4.9.1 Customizing Threading
4.9.1.1 Loose Threads
4.9.1.2 Filling In Threads
4.9.1.3 More Threading
4.9.1.4 Low-Level Threading
4.9.2 Thread Commands
4.10 Sorting the Summary Buffer
4.11 Asynchronous Article Fetching
4.12 Article Caching
4.13 Persistent Articles
4.14 Sticky Articles
4.15 Article Backlog
4.16 Saving Articles
4.17 Decoding Articles
4.17.1 Uuencoded Articles
4.17.2 Shell Archives
4.17.3 PostScript Files
4.17.4 Other Files
4.17.5 Decoding Variables
4.17.5.1 Rule Variables
4.17.5.2 Other Decode Variables
4.17.5.3 Uuencoding and Posting
4.17.6 Viewing Files
4.18 Article Treatment
4.18.1 Article Highlighting
4.18.2 Article Fontifying
4.18.3 Article Hiding
4.18.4 Article Washing
4.18.5 Article Header
4.18.6 Article Buttons
4.18.6.1 Related variables and functions
4.18.7 Article button levels
4.18.8 Article Date
4.18.9 Article Display
4.18.10 Article Signature
4.18.11 Article Miscellanea
4.19 MIME Commands
4.20 Charsets
4.21 Article Commands
4.22 Summary Sorting
4.23 Finding the Parent
4.24 Alternative Approaches
4.24.1 Pick and Read
4.24.2 Binary Groups
4.25 Tree Display
4.26 Mail Group Commands
4.27 Various Summary Stuff
4.27.1 Summary Group Information
4.27.2 Searching for Articles
4.27.3 Summary Generation Commands
4.27.4 Really Various Summary Commands
4.28 Exiting the Summary Buffer
4.29 Crosspost Handling
4.30 Duplicate Suppression
4.31 Security
4.32 Mailing List
5 Article Buffer
5.1 Hiding Headers
5.2 Using MIME
5.3
HTML
5.4 Customizing Articles
5.5 Article Keymap
5.6 Misc Article
6 Composing Messages
6.1 Mail
6.2 Posting Server
6.3 POP before SMTP
6.4 Mail and Post
6.5 Archived Messages
6.6 Posting Styles
6.7 Drafts
6.8 Rejected Articles
6.9 Signing and encrypting
7 Select Methods
7.1 Server Buffer
7.1.1 Server Buffer Format
7.1.2 Server Commands
7.1.3 Example Methods
7.1.4 Creating a Virtual Server
7.1.5 Server Variables
7.1.6 Servers and Methods
7.1.7 Unavailable Servers
7.2 Getting News
7.2.1 NNTP
7.2.1.1 Direct Functions
7.2.1.2 Indirect Functions
7.2.1.3 Common Variables
7.2.2 News Spool
7.3 Using IMAP
7.3.1 Connecting to an IMAP Server
7.3.2 Customizing the IMAP Connection
7.3.3 Client-Side IMAP Splitting
7.3.4 Support for IMAP Extensions
7.4 Getting Mail
7.4.1 Mail in a Newsreader
7.4.2 Getting Started Reading Mail
7.4.3 Splitting Mail
7.4.4 Mail Sources
7.4.4.1 Mail Source Specifiers
7.4.4.2 Function Interface
7.4.4.3 Mail Source Customization
7.4.4.4 Fetching Mail
7.4.5 Mail Back End Variables
7.4.6 Fancy Mail Splitting
7.4.7 Group Mail Splitting
7.4.8 Incorporating Old Mail
7.4.9 Expiring Mail
7.4.10 Washing Mail
7.4.11 Duplicates
7.4.12 Not Reading Mail
7.4.13 Choosing a Mail Back End
7.4.13.1 Unix Mail Box
7.4.13.2 Babyl
7.4.13.3 Mail Spool
7.4.13.4 MH Spool
7.4.13.5 Maildir
7.4.13.6 Group parameters
7.4.13.7 Article identification
7.4.13.8 NOV data
7.4.13.9 Article marks
7.4.13.10 Mail Folders
7.4.13.11 Comparing Mail Back Ends
7.5 Browsing the Web
7.5.1 Web Searches
7.5.2 RSS
7.5.3 Atom
7.6 Other Sources
7.6.1 Directory Groups
7.6.2 Anything Groups
7.6.3 Document Groups
7.6.3.1 Document Server Internals
7.6.4 Mail-To-News Gateways
7.6.5 The Empty Backend
7.7 Virtual Groups
7.7.1 Select Groups
7.7.2 Combined Groups
7.8 Email Based Diary
7.8.1 The NNDiary Back End
7.8.1.1 Diary Messages
7.8.1.2 Running NNDiary
7.8.1.3 Customizing NNDiary
7.8.2 The Gnus Diary Library
7.8.2.1 Diary Summary Line Format
7.8.2.2 Diary Articles Sorting
7.8.2.3 Diary Headers Generation
7.8.2.4 Diary Group Parameters
7.9 Gnus Unplugged
7.9.1 Agent Basics
7.9.2 Agent Categories
7.9.2.1 Category Syntax
7.9.2.2 Category Buffer
7.9.2.3 Category Variables
7.9.3 Agent Commands
7.9.3.1 Group Agent Commands
7.9.3.2 Summary Agent Commands
7.9.3.3 Server Agent Commands
7.9.4 Agent Visuals
7.9.5 Agent as Cache
7.9.6 Agent Expiry
7.9.7 Agent Regeneration
7.9.8 Agent and flags
7.9.9 Agent and IMAP
7.9.10 Outgoing Messages
7.9.11 Agent Variables
7.9.12 Example Setup
7.9.13 Batching Agents
7.9.14 Agent Caveats
8 Scoring
8.1 Summary Score Commands
8.2 Group Score Commands
8.3 Score Variables
8.4 Score File Format
8.5 Score File Editing
8.6 Adaptive Scoring
8.7 Home Score File
8.8 Followups To Yourself
8.9 Scoring On Other Headers
8.10 Scoring Tips
8.11 Reverse Scoring
8.12 Global Score Files
8.13 Kill Files
8.14 Converting Kill Files
8.15 Advanced Scoring
8.15.1 Advanced Scoring Syntax
8.15.2 Advanced Scoring Examples
8.15.3 Advanced Scoring Tips
8.16 Score Decays
9 Searching
9.1 Search Engines
9.2 Creating Search Groups
9.3 Search Queries
9.3.1 Date value parsing
9.4 nnmairix
9.4.1 About mairix
9.4.2 nnmairix requirements
9.4.3 What nnmairix does
9.4.4 Setting up mairix
9.4.5 Configuring nnmairix
9.4.6 nnmairix keyboard shortcuts
9.4.7 Propagating marks
9.4.8 nnmairix tips and tricks
9.4.9 nnmairix caveats
9.5 Migrating from nnir
10 Various
10.1 Process/Prefix
10.2 Interactive
10.3 Symbolic Prefixes
10.4 Formatting Variables
10.4.1 Formatting Basics
10.4.2 Mode Line Formatting
10.4.3 Advanced Formatting
10.4.4 User-Defined Specs
10.4.5 Formatting Fonts
10.4.6 Positioning Point
10.4.7 Tabulation
10.5 Window Layout
10.5.1 Window Configuration Names
10.5.2 Example Window Configurations
10.6 Tabbed Interface
10.7 Faces and Fonts
10.8 Mode Lines
10.9 Highlighting and Menus
10.10 Daemons
10.11 Undo
10.12 Predicate Specifiers
10.13 Moderation
10.14 Fetching a Group
10.15 Image Enhancements
10.15.1 X-Face
10.15.2 Face
10.15.3 Smileys
10.15.4 Picons
10.15.5 Gravatars
10.15.5.1 Tool bar
10.16 Fuzzy Matching
10.17 Thwarting Email Spam
10.17.1 The problem of spam
10.17.2 Anti-Spam Basics
10.17.3 SpamAssassin, Vipul’s Razor, DCC, etc
10.17.4 Hashcash
10.18 Spam Package
10.18.1 Spam Package Introduction
10.18.2 Filtering Incoming Mail
10.18.3 Detecting Spam in Groups
10.18.4 Spam and Ham Processors
10.18.5 Spam Package Configuration Examples
10.18.6 Spam Back Ends
10.18.6.1 Blacklists and Whitelists
10.18.6.2 BBDB Whitelists
10.18.6.3 Gmane Spam Reporting
10.18.6.4 Anti-spam Hashcash Payments
10.18.6.5 Blackholes
10.18.6.6 Regular Expressions Header Matching
10.18.6.7 Bogofilter
10.18.6.8 SpamAssassin back end
10.18.6.9 ifile spam filtering
10.18.6.10 Spam Statistics Filtering
10.18.6.11 Using SpamOracle with Gnus
10.18.7 Extending the Spam package
10.18.8 Spam Statistics Package
10.18.8.1 Creating a spam-stat dictionary
10.18.8.2 Splitting mail using spam-stat
10.18.8.3 Low-level interface to the spam-stat dictionary
10.19 The Gnus Registry
10.19.1 Gnus Registry Setup
10.19.2 Fetching by
Message-ID
Using the Registry
10.19.3 Fancy splitting to parent
10.19.4 Store custom flags and keywords
10.19.5 Store arbitrary data
10.20 The Gnus Cloud
10.20.1 Gnus Cloud Setup
10.20.2 Gnus Cloud Usage
10.21 D-Bus Integration
10.22 Interaction with other modes
10.22.1 Dired
10.23 Various Various
11 The End
12 Appendices
12.1 History
12.1.1 Gnus Versions
12.1.2 Why?
12.1.3 Conformity
12.1.4 Contributors
12.1.5 New Features
12.1.5.1 (ding) Gnus
12.1.5.2 September Gnus
12.1.5.3 Red Gnus
12.1.5.4 Quassia Gnus
12.1.5.5 Pterodactyl Gnus
12.1.5.6 Oort Gnus
12.1.5.7 No Gnus
12.1.5.8 Ma Gnus
12.2 On Writing Manuals
12.3 Terminology
12.4 Customization
12.4.1 Slow/Expensive Connection
12.4.2 Slow Terminal Connection
12.4.3 Little Disk Space
12.4.4 Slow Machine
12.5 Troubleshooting
12.6 Gnus Reference Guide
12.6.1 Gnus Utility Functions
12.6.2 Back End Interface
12.6.2.1 Required Back End Functions
12.6.2.2 Optional Back End Functions
12.6.2.3 Error Messaging
12.6.2.4 Writing New Back Ends
12.6.2.5 Hooking New Back Ends Into Gnus
12.6.2.6 Mail-like Back Ends
12.6.2.7 Web Feed Back Ends
12.6.3 Score File Syntax
12.6.4 Headers
12.6.5 Ranges
12.6.6 Group Info
12.6.7 Extended Interactive
12.6.8 Various File Formats
12.6.8.1 Active File Format
12.6.8.2 Newsgroups File Format
12.7 Emacs for Heathens
12.7.1 Keystrokes
12.7.2 Emacs Lisp
12.8 Frequently Asked Questions
12.8.1 Introduction
12.8.2 Installation FAQ
12.8.3 Startup / Group buffer
12.8.4 Getting Messages
12.8.5 Reading messages
12.8.6 Composing messages
12.8.7 Old messages
12.8.8 Gnus in a dial-up environment
12.8.9 Getting help
12.8.10 Tuning Gnus
12.8.11 Glossary
13 GNU Free Documentation License
14 Index
15 Key Index
Short Table of Contents
1 Don’t Panic
2 Starting Gnus
3 Group Buffer
4 Summary Buffer
5 Article Buffer
6 Composing Messages
7 Select Methods
8 Scoring
9 Searching
10 Various
11 The End
12 Appendices
13 GNU Free Documentation License
14 Index
15 Key Index
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