Pterodactyl Gnus ​

New features in Gnus 5.8:

  • The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.

    If you used procmail like in

    emacs-lisp
    (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
(setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
(setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
(setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")

    this now has changed to

    emacs-lisp
    (setq mail-sources
      '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
                   :suffix ".in")))

    See Mail Source Specifiers.

  • Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.

  • Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.

  • gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be called to position point.

  • The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in summary buffers and NOV files.

  • gnus-article-display-hook has been removed. Instead, a number of variables starting with gnus-treat- have been added.

  • The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a subtly different manner.

  • New web-based back ends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with ever-changing layouts.

  • Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.