Questions tagged [gnus]

GNUS is a powerful News and Mail reader for Emacs.

GNUS is both a Usenet news reader and email reader. It also has capabilities for reading RSS feeds and other data sources which can be massaged into a stream of messages.

Detailed information, including manuals and tips and tricks can be found at the Main Site and at the Emacs Wiki Category for Gnus

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Is there a urlview (a la mutt) for gnus? Or just elisp for extracting urls?

I switched from mutt to gnus and would like to extract urls from emails and be able to launch a new buffer that contains all urls in a given email. Urlview does this for mutt as a frame of reference for what I am looking for.
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Insert current entry into BBDB

I've read that "The easiest way to insert an entry for a person into BBDB is to press : (colon) in the Summary buffer when a message from him is the selected one. If the person is in the database already, nothing happens; otherwise, Emacs asks you…
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How to automatically track links in org-mode to gnus messages?

I use org-mode + gnus + Gmail for my daily GTD routine. The concept is that treating all incoming messages as tasks, and converting all messages in INBOX into org-mode's tasks using org-capture. Once all new messages are converted into tasks,…
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How to integrate dovecot version 2 with gnus emacs

I am trying to use emacs and gnus as a mail reader. There are several snippets of instructions online for how to do this with offlineimap and dovecot, however they seem to be for the earlier version of dovecot. I have successfully installed…
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How to use gpg, gpg-agent, especially for .authinfo.gpg?

(kubuntu, but trying to remain platform independent in my approaches.) Either of conceptual explanations or necessary steps are appreciated. I'm reading through the documentation, and tried to get gpg-agent to work once, but am getting discouraged…
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GNUs email multiple outgoing accounts from the same server without imap

I use GNUs and multiple email addresses, including changing the outgoing SMTP based on the FROM on the message. SO far so good. Now, though, I have multiple accounts on the same server, so the usual .authinfo doesn't work for me. It seems like the…
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How to use GNUS with Gmail?

I searched for several mail clients but all are messed up. The best I could find was gnus which I managed to configure to retrieve data from Gmail. However: When I read message in gnus, it is still marked as unread on gmail I couldn't find how…
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Emacs: manage email passwords in Gnus

My main problem right now is that in gnus.el i got several mail sources set in a manner like: (setq mail-sources '((pop :server "server.org" :port 995 :user "user@server.org" :password "pAssWorD") I don't want to store passwords in…
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Marking sent messages as read in Gnus over IMAP

When using Gnus, I want my sent messages to be marked as read in the remote IMAP folder. I'm using ;; mark Gcc (group Cc) messages as read (setq gnus-gcc-mark-as-read t) but it doesn't work. Does this only work for offlineimap? Is there a way to do…
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How can I keep footnotes together with message text when top-posting?

I want better control of the footnote positioning within an email message. I could write the code to modify footnote-mode to do what I want, but first I want to see if somebody else has already solved this problem. When I am top-posting with…
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I don't want to expire mail in gnus

I am using gnus and I would rather it not expire read mail in the usenet fashion. This doesn't seem to be working: (remove-hook 'gnus-mark-article-hook …
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Remove invalid imap mail messages from the Summary buffer in gnus

When accessing IMAP mail (with nnimap) in GNUS, the Summary buffer often lists messages or that are actually no longer present in the group. Selecting any of these messages/articles results in an 'Article canceled or expired' error message. Quiting…
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How to make Emacs Gnus to get new mails automatically?

I try to fetch new mails with Gnus, but it doesn't work. I tried following options in my .emacs file: ;(setq gnus-demon-timestep 10) (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-group-get-new-news 1 nil) ;(gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-mail 1…
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Configuring gnus with gmail imap

I am trying to configure gnus to work with my gmail account. My .gnus file looks like this: (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gwene.org")) (setq user-full-name "George P. Burdell") (setq user-mail-address "probablyReal@gmail.com") (setq…
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Show all messages in gnus with (display . all)

I want to configure gnus so that it displays all mails from gmeil, even the read ones by default. I tried setting the gnus parameter, but something seems to be wrong with the regexp. My .gnus.el looks as follow: (require 'nnir) (setq…
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