| New Groups
|
| Checking New Groups |
Determining what groups are new. |
| Subscription Methods |
What Gnus should do with new groups. |
| Filtering New Groups |
Making Gnus ignore certain new groups.
|
| Group Buffer
|
| Group Buffer Format |
Information listed and how you can change it. |
| Group Maneuvering |
Commands for moving in the group buffer. |
| Selecting a Group |
Actually reading news. |
| Subscription Commands |
Unsubscribing, killing, subscribing. |
| Group Data |
Changing the info for a group. |
| Group Levels |
Levels? What are those, then? |
| Group Score |
A mechanism for finding out what groups you like. |
| Marking Groups |
You can mark groups for later processing. |
| Foreign Groups |
Creating and editing groups. |
| Group Parameters |
Each group may have different parameters set. |
| Listing Groups |
Gnus can list various subsets of the groups. |
| Sorting Groups |
Re-arrange the group order. |
| Group Maintenance |
Maintaining a tidy .newsrc file. |
| Browse Foreign Server |
You can browse a server. See what it has to offer. |
| Exiting Gnus |
Stop reading news and get some work done. |
| Group Topics |
A folding group mode divided into topics. |
| Non-ASCII Group Names |
Accessing groups of non-English names. |
| Misc Group Stuff |
Other stuff that you can to do.
|
| Group Buffer Format
|
| Group Line Specification |
Deciding how the group buffer is to look. |
| Group Mode Line Specification |
The group buffer mode line. |
| Group Highlighting |
Having nice colors in the group buffer.
|
| Group Topics
|
| Topic Commands |
Interactive E-Z commands. |
| Topic Variables |
How to customize the topics the Lisp Way. |
| Topic Sorting |
Sorting each topic individually. |
| Topic Topology |
A map of the world. |
| Topic Parameters |
Parameters that apply to all groups in a topic.
|
| Misc Group Stuff
|
| Scanning New Messages |
Asking Gnus to see whether new messages have arrived. |
| Group Information |
Information and help on groups and Gnus. |
| Group Timestamp |
Making Gnus keep track of when you last read a group. |
| File Commands |
Reading and writing the Gnus files. |
| Sieve Commands |
Managing Sieve scripts.
|
| Summary Buffer
|
| Summary Buffer Format |
Deciding how the summary buffer is to look. |
| Summary Maneuvering |
Moving around the summary buffer. |
| Choosing Articles |
Reading articles. |
| Paging the Article |
Scrolling the current article. |
| Reply Followup and Post |
Posting articles. |
| Delayed Articles |
Send articles at a later time. |
| Marking Articles |
Marking articles as read, expirable, etc. |
| Limiting |
You can limit the summary buffer. |
| Threading |
How threads are made. |
| Sorting the Summary Buffer |
How articles and threads are sorted. |
| Asynchronous Fetching |
Gnus might be able to pre-fetch articles. |
| Article Caching |
You may store articles in a cache. |
| Persistent Articles |
Making articles expiry-resistant. |
| Sticky Articles |
Article buffers that are not reused. |
| Article Backlog |
Having already read articles hang around. |
| Saving Articles |
Ways of customizing article saving. |
| Decoding Articles |
Gnus can treat series of (uu)encoded articles. |
| Article Treatment |
The article buffer can be mangled at will. |
| MIME Commands |
Doing MIMEy things with the articles. |
| Charsets |
Character set issues. |
| Article Commands |
Doing various things with the article buffer. |
| Summary Sorting |
Sorting the summary buffer in various ways. |
| Finding the Parent |
No child support? Get the parent. |
| Alternative Approaches |
Reading using non-default summaries. |
| Tree Display |
A more visual display of threads. |
| Mail Group Commands |
Some commands can only be used in mail groups. |
| Various Summary Stuff |
What didn't fit anywhere else. |
| Exiting the Summary Buffer |
Returning to the Group buffer,
or reselecting the current group. |
| Crosspost Handling |
How crossposted articles are dealt with. |
| Duplicate Suppression |
An alternative when crosspost handling fails. |
| Security |
Decrypt and Verify. |
| Mailing List |
Mailing list minor mode.
|
| Summary Buffer Format
|
| Summary Buffer Lines |
You can specify how summary lines should look. |
| To From Newsgroups |
How to not display your own name. |
| Summary Buffer Mode Line |
You can say how the mode line should look. |
| Summary Highlighting |
Making the summary buffer all pretty and nice.
|
| Choosing Articles
|
| Choosing Commands |
Commands for choosing articles. |
| Choosing Variables |
Variables that influence these commands.
|
| Reply, Followup and Post
|
| Summary Mail Commands |
Sending mail. |
| Summary Post Commands |
Sending news. |
| Summary Message Commands |
Other Message-related commands. |
| Canceling and Superseding |
|
| Marking Articles
|
| Unread Articles |
Marks for unread articles. |
| Read Articles |
Marks for read articles. |
| Other Marks |
Marks that do not affect readedness. |
| Setting Marks |
How to set and remove marks. |
| Generic Marking Commands |
How to customize the marking. |
| Setting Process Marks |
How to mark articles for later processing.
|
| Threading
|
| Customizing Threading |
Variables you can change to affect the threading. |
| Thread Commands |
Thread based commands in the summary buffer.
|
| Customizing Threading
|
| Loose Threads |
How Gnus gathers loose threads into bigger threads. |
| Filling In Threads |
Making the threads displayed look fuller. |
| More Threading |
Even more variables for fiddling with threads. |
| Low-Level Threading |
You thought it was over... but you were wrong!
|
| Decoding Articles
|
| Uuencoded Articles |
Uudecode articles. |
| Shell Archives |
Unshar articles. |
| PostScript Files |
Split PostScript. |
| Other Files |
Plain save and binhex. |
| Decoding Variables |
Variables for a happy decoding. |
| Viewing Files |
You want to look at the result of the decoding?
|
| Decoding Variables
|
| Rule Variables |
Variables that say how a file is to be viewed. |
| Other Decode Variables |
Other decode variables. |
| Uuencoding and Posting |
Variables for customizing uuencoding.
|
| Article Treatment
|
| Article Highlighting |
You want to make the article look like fruit salad. |
| Article Fontisizing |
Making emphasized text look nice. |
| Article Hiding |
You also want to make certain info go away. |
| Article Washing |
Lots of way-neat functions to make life better. |
| Article Header |
Doing various header transformations. |
| Article Buttons |
Click on URLs, Message-IDs, addresses and the like. |
| Article Button Levels |
Controlling appearance of buttons. |
| Article Date |
Grumble, UT! |
| Article Display |
Display various stuff---X-Face, Picons, Smileys, Gravatars |
| Article Signature |
What is a signature? |
| Article Miscellanea |
Various other stuff.
|
| Alternative Approaches
|
| Pick and Read |
First mark articles and then read them. |
| Binary Groups |
Auto-decode all articles.
|
| Various Summary Stuff
|
| Summary Group Information |
Information oriented commands. |
| Searching for Articles |
Multiple article commands. |
| Summary Generation Commands |
|
| Really Various Summary Commands |
Those pesky non-conformant commands.
|
| Article Buffer
|
| Hiding Headers |
Deciding what headers should be displayed. |
| Using MIME |
Pushing articles through MIME before reading them. |
| Customizing Articles |
Tailoring the look of the articles. |
| Article Keymap |
Keystrokes available in the article buffer. |
| Misc Article |
Other stuff.
|
| Composing Messages
|
| Mail |
Mailing and replying. |
| Posting Server |
What server should you post and mail via? |
| POP before SMTP |
You cannot send a mail unless you read a mail. |
| Mail and Post |
Mailing and posting at the same time. |
| Archived Messages |
Where Gnus stores the messages you've sent. |
| Posting Styles |
An easier way to specify who you are. |
| Drafts |
Postponing messages and rejected messages. |
| Rejected Articles |
What happens if the server doesn't like your article? |
| Signing and encrypting |
How to compose secure messages.
|
| Select Methods
|
| Server Buffer |
Making and editing virtual servers. |
| Getting News |
Reading USENET news with Gnus. |
| Using IMAP |
Reading mail from IMAP. |
| Getting Mail |
Reading your personal mail with Gnus. |
| Browsing the Web |
Getting messages from a plethora of Web sources. |
| Other Sources |
Reading directories, files. |
| Combined Groups |
Combining groups into one group. |
| Email Based Diary |
Using mails to manage diary events in Gnus. |
| Gnus Unplugged |
Reading news and mail offline.
|
| Server Buffer
|
| Server Buffer Format |
You can customize the look of this buffer. |
| Server Commands |
Commands to manipulate servers. |
| Example Methods |
Examples server specifications. |
| Creating a Virtual Server |
An example session. |
| Server Variables |
Which variables to set. |
| Servers and Methods |
You can use server names as select methods. |
| Unavailable Servers |
Some servers you try to contact may be down.
|
| Getting News
|
| NNTP |
Reading news from an NNTP server. |
| News Spool |
Reading news from the local spool.
|
| NNTP
|
| Direct Functions |
Connecting directly to the server. |
| Indirect Functions |
Connecting indirectly to the server. |
| Common Variables |
Understood by several connection functions.
|
| Getting Mail
|
| Mail in a Newsreader |
Important introductory notes. |
| Getting Started Reading Mail |
A simple cookbook example. |
| Splitting Mail |
How to create mail groups. |
| Mail Sources |
How to tell Gnus where to get mail from. |
| Mail Back End Variables |
Variables for customizing mail handling. |
| Fancy Mail Splitting |
Gnus can do hairy splitting of incoming mail. |
| Group Mail Splitting |
Use group customize to drive mail splitting. |
| Incorporating Old Mail |
What about the old mail you have? |
| Expiring Mail |
Getting rid of unwanted mail. |
| Washing Mail |
Removing cruft from the mail you get. |
| Duplicates |
Dealing with duplicated mail. |
| Not Reading Mail |
Using mail back ends for reading other files. |
| Choosing a Mail Back End |
Gnus can read a variety of mail formats.
|
| Mail Sources
|
| Mail Source Specifiers |
How to specify what a mail source is. |
| Mail Source Customization |
Some variables that influence things. |
| Fetching Mail |
Using the mail source specifiers.
|
| Choosing a Mail Back End
|
| Unix Mail Box |
Using the (quite) standard Un*x mbox. |
| Babyl |
Babyl was used by older versions of Rmail. |
| Mail Spool |
Store your mail in a private spool? |
| MH Spool |
An mhspool-like back end. |
| Maildir |
Another one-file-per-message format. |
| Mail Folders |
Having one file for each group. |
| Comparing Mail Back Ends |
An in-depth looks at pros and cons.
|
| Browsing the Web
|
| Archiving Mail |
|
| Web Searches |
Creating groups from articles that match a string. |
| RSS |
Reading RDF site summary. |
| Customizing W3 |
Doing stuff to Emacs/W3 from Gnus.
|
| Other Sources
|
| Directory Groups |
You can read a directory as if it was a newsgroup. |
| Anything Groups |
Dired? Who needs dired? |
| Document Groups |
Single files can be the basis of a group. |
| Mail-To-News Gateways |
Posting articles via mail-to-news gateways. |
| The Empty Backend |
The backend that never has any news.
|
| Document Groups
|
| Document Server Internals |
How to add your own document types.
|
| Combined Groups
|
| Virtual Groups |
Combining articles from many groups.
|
| Email Based Diary
|
| The NNDiary Back End |
Basic setup and usage. |
| The Gnus Diary Library |
Utility toolkit on top of nndiary. |
| Sending or Not Sending |
A final note on sending diary messages.
|
| The NNDiary Back End
|
| Diary Messages |
What makes a message valid for nndiary. |
| Running NNDiary |
NNDiary has two modes of operation. |
| Customizing NNDiary |
Bells and whistles.
|
| The Gnus Diary Library
|
| Diary Summary Line Format |
A nicer summary buffer line format. |
| Diary Articles Sorting |
A nicer way to sort messages. |
| Diary Headers Generation |
Not doing it manually. |
| Diary Group Parameters |
Not handling them manually.
|
| Gnus Unplugged
|
| Agent Basics |
How it all is supposed to work. |
| Agent Categories |
How to tell the Gnus Agent what to download. |
| Agent Commands |
New commands for all the buffers. |
| Agent Visuals |
Ways that the agent may effect your summary buffer. |
| Agent as Cache |
The Agent is a big cache too. |
| Agent Expiry |
How to make old articles go away. |
| Agent Regeneration |
How to recover from lost connections and other accidents. |
| Agent and flags |
How the Agent maintains flags. |
| Agent and IMAP |
How to use the Agent with IMAP. |
| Outgoing Messages |
What happens when you post/mail something? |
| Agent Variables |
Customizing is fun. |
| Example Setup |
An example ~/.gnus.el file for offline people. |
| Batching Agents |
How to fetch news from a cron job. |
| Agent Caveats |
What you think it'll do and what it does.
|
| Agent Categories
|
| Category Syntax |
What a category looks like. |
| Category Buffer |
A buffer for maintaining categories. |
| Category Variables |
Customize'r'Us.
|
| Agent Commands
|
| Group Agent Commands |
Configure groups and fetch their contents. |
| Summary Agent Commands |
Manually select then fetch specific articles. |
| Server Agent Commands |
Select the servers that are supported by the agent.
|
| Scoring
|
| Summary Score Commands |
Adding score entries for the current group. |
| Group Score Commands |
General score commands. |
| Score Variables |
Customize your scoring. (My, what terminology). |
| Score File Format |
What a score file may contain. |
| Score File Editing |
You can edit score files by hand as well. |
| Adaptive Scoring |
Big Sister Gnus knows what you read. |
| Home Score File |
How to say where new score entries are to go. |
| Followups To Yourself |
Having Gnus notice when people answer you. |
| Scoring On Other Headers |
Scoring on non-standard headers. |
| Scoring Tips |
How to score effectively. |
| Reverse Scoring |
That problem child of old is not problem. |
| Global Score Files |
Earth-spanning, ear-splitting score files. |
| Kill Files |
They are still here, but they can be ignored. |
| Converting Kill Files |
Translating kill files to score files. |
| Advanced Scoring |
Using logical expressions to build score rules. |
| Score Decays |
It can be useful to let scores wither away.
|
| Advanced Scoring
|
| Advanced Scoring Syntax |
A definition. |
| Advanced Scoring Examples |
What they look like. |
| Advanced Scoring Tips |
Getting the most out of it.
|
| Searching
|
| nnir |
Searching with various engines. |
| nnmairix |
Searching with Mairix.
|
| nnir
|
| What is nnir? |
What does nnir do. |
| Basic Usage |
How to perform simple searches. |
| Setting up nnir |
How to set up nnir.
|
| Setting up nnir
|
| Associating Engines |
How to associate engines.
|
| Various
|
| Process/Prefix |
A convention used by many treatment commands. |
| Interactive |
Making Gnus ask you many questions. |
| Symbolic Prefixes |
How to supply some Gnus functions with options. |
| Formatting Variables |
You can specify what buffers should look like. |
| Window Layout |
Configuring the Gnus buffer windows. |
| Faces and Fonts |
How to change how faces look. |
| Mode Lines |
Displaying information in the mode lines. |
| Highlighting and Menus |
Making buffers look all nice and cozy. |
| Daemons |
Gnus can do things behind your back. |
| Undo |
Some actions can be undone. |
| Predicate Specifiers |
Specifying predicates. |
| Moderation |
What to do if you're a moderator. |
| Image Enhancements |
Modern versions of Emacs/XEmacs can display images. |
| Fuzzy Matching |
What's the big fuzz? |
| Thwarting Email Spam |
Simple ways to avoid unsolicited commercial email. |
| Spam Package |
A package for filtering and processing spam. |
| The Gnus Registry |
A package for tracking messages by Message-ID. |
| Other modes |
Interaction with other modes. |
| Various Various |
Things that are really various.
|
| Formatting Variables
|
| Formatting Basics |
A formatting variable is basically a format string. |
| Mode Line Formatting |
Some rules about mode line formatting variables. |
| Advanced Formatting |
Modifying output in various ways. |
| User-Defined Specs |
Having Gnus call your own functions. |
| Formatting Fonts |
Making the formatting look colorful and nice. |
| Positioning Point |
Moving point to a position after an operation. |
| Tabulation |
Tabulating your output. |
| Wide Characters |
Dealing with wide characters.
|
| Image Enhancements
|
| X-Face |
Display a funky, teensy black-and-white image. |
| Face |
Display a funkier, teensier colored image. |
| Smileys |
Show all those happy faces the way they were
meant to be shown. |
| Picons |
How to display pictures of what you're reading. |
| Gravatars |
Display the avatar of people you read. |
| XVarious |
Other XEmacsy Gnusey variables.
|
| Thwarting Email Spam
|
| The problem of spam |
Some background, and some solutions |
| Anti-Spam Basics |
Simple steps to reduce the amount of spam. |
| SpamAssassin |
How to use external anti-spam tools. |
| Hashcash |
Reduce spam by burning CPU time.
|
| Spam Package
|
| Spam Package Introduction |
|
| Filtering Incoming Mail |
|
| Detecting Spam in Groups |
|
| Spam and Ham Processors |
|
| Spam Package Configuration Examples |
|
| Spam Back Ends |
|
| Extending the Spam package |
|
| Spam Statistics Package |
|
| Spam Statistics Package
|
| Creating a spam-stat dictionary |
|
| Splitting mail using spam-stat |
|
| Low-level interface to the spam-stat dictionary |
|
| Appendices
|
| XEmacs |
Requirements for installing under XEmacs. |
| History |
How Gnus got where it is today. |
| On Writing Manuals |
Why this is not a beginner's guide. |
| Terminology |
We use really difficult, like, words here. |
| Customization |
Tailoring Gnus to your needs. |
| Troubleshooting |
What you might try if things do not work. |
| Gnus Reference Guide |
Rilly, rilly technical stuff. |
| Emacs for Heathens |
A short introduction to Emacsian terms. |
| Frequently Asked Questions |
The Gnus FAQ
|
| History
|
| Gnus Versions |
What Gnus versions have been released. |
| Why? |
What's the point of Gnus? |
| Compatibility |
Just how compatible is Gnus with gnus? |
| Conformity |
Gnus tries to conform to all standards. |
| Emacsen |
Gnus can be run on a few modern Emacsen. |
| Gnus Development |
How Gnus is developed. |
| Contributors |
Oodles of people. |
| New Features |
Pointers to some of the new stuff in Gnus.
|
| New Features
|
| ding Gnus |
New things in Gnus 5.0/5.1, the first new Gnus. |
| September Gnus |
The Thing Formally Known As Gnus 5.2/5.3. |
| Red Gnus |
Third time best---Gnus 5.4/5.5. |
| Quassia Gnus |
Two times two is four, or Gnus 5.6/5.7. |
| Pterodactyl Gnus |
Pentad also starts with P, AKA Gnus 5.8/5.9. |
| Oort Gnus |
It's big. It's far out. Gnus 5.10/5.11. |
| No Gnus |
Very punny. Gnus 5.12/5.13 |
| Ma Gnus |
Celebrating 25 years of Gnus.
|
| Customization
|
| Slow/Expensive Connection |
You run a local Emacs and get the news elsewhere. |
| Slow Terminal Connection |
You run a remote Emacs. |
| Little Disk Space |
You feel that having large setup files is icky. |
| Slow Machine |
You feel like buying a faster machine.
|
| Gnus Reference Guide
|
| Gnus Utility Functions |
Common functions and variable to use. |
| Back End Interface |
How Gnus communicates with the servers. |
| Score File Syntax |
A BNF definition of the score file standard. |
| Headers |
How Gnus stores headers internally. |
| Ranges |
A handy format for storing mucho numbers. |
| Group Info |
The group info format. |
| Extended Interactive |
Symbolic prefixes and stuff. |
| Emacs/XEmacs Code |
Gnus can be run under all modern Emacsen. |
| Various File Formats |
Formats of files that Gnus use.
|
| Back End Interface
|
| Required Back End Functions |
Functions that must be implemented. |
| Optional Back End Functions |
Functions that need not be implemented. |
| Error Messaging |
How to get messages and report errors. |
| Writing New Back Ends |
Extending old back ends. |
| Hooking New Back Ends Into Gnus |
What has to be done on the Gnus end. |
| Mail-like Back Ends |
Some tips on mail back ends.
|
| Various File Formats
|
| Active File Format |
Information on articles and groups available. |
| Newsgroups File Format |
Group descriptions.
|
| Emacs for Heathens
|
| Keystrokes |
Entering text and executing commands. |
| Emacs Lisp |
The built-in Emacs programming language.
|