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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Emacs automating function based on timer: user disturbance

I am looking for a general way for Emacs to do some checks, and (bing) when something is true or false. I have 2 examples at the moment. There is an auction website, and I figured it would be nice for Emacs to check whether there has been an update.…
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Emacs Gnus receiving mail (dis)order

In years of using Emacs I never used it for e-mails. Always saw it as a very convoluted system to do it (let alone e-mails are a too convoluted system to do messaging, but that's a different gripe). Now, first time using Gnus and connecting it to…
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auto create entries for all email addresses in BBDB3

Does bbdb3 have something similar to bbdb/mail-auto-create-p from bbdb2? Basically I just want bbdb to be big brother and auto-create entries for every email address I ever see. Ever. Bonus points: do this on a per account basis (e.g. I want to add…
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Gnus reply with signature on top

In summary mode, when I press R for gnus-summary-reply-with-original or F for gnus-summary-followup-with-original, my signature gets inserted below the original message text. How can I tell gnus to insert my signature at the very top of the…
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Gnus: How to force signature to be placed at the bottom/under quoted messages in replies?

I use Gnus 5.13 for emails (on Mac OS X 10.7.2 with emacs 24). I use the gnus-posting-styles entry (eval (set (make-local-variable 'message-cite-reply-position) 'above)) in order to place the point (cursor) on top of the message in replies. This…
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Configuring Gmail in gnus in Aquamacs

I'm a new emacs user, and I'm trying to get gnus working with mi gmail account with Aquamacs. So far, I've been able to set it up to receive my mail. The problem is when I try to send an e-mail. I get this error: No Gnus is good news No more unread…
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Mass Thunderbird folder to Gnus nnfolder conversions

I'm pondering the idea of importing a few thousand Thunderbird folders, each folder containing many emails of course, as a set of Emacs' Gnus mailgroups. Each mailgroup name would be derived from the folder hierarchy. Because of the quantity, the…
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how to make auto complete of an email ID from bbdb? emacs/gnus

I am looking for bbdb/gnus integration. could anyone share their setup?
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gnus: nnmaildir (maildir) with with subfolders tree

I have configured gnus to use nnmaildir with ~/Maildir directory. Gnus sees/lists maildirs in direct sub-folders (e.g. ~/Maildir/archvives/) but it does not see/lists maildirs in deeper subfolders e.g. (~/Maildir/archives/2015/). How to fix it?
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duplicate imap uid validities with mbsync

I am using mbsync to get imap mail from my university server and then dovecot locally to serve it to gnus/emacs. This works fine on one desktop machine, and one laptop, but a second laptop creates duplicate UIDs everytime I use it to access my mail.…
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gnus error finding parent article from summary mode

Im having trouble with finding the parent article of a sent message in "Summary-mode". I press ^ in the sent folder, summary mode, which is bound to the function "gnus-summary-refere-parent-article". It tells me "No reference in article x" or "cant…
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GNUS Reuse Group Buffer When Opening Summary

I'm really enjoying using gnus as my mail reader, but I have one gripe. If I have a split (say I'm working on some code in the left buffer when gnus groups opened in the right) and open a summary buffer for my INBOX, it takes over the entire frame.…
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Trouble opening gmail nnimap server in Emacs gnus on Windows

I'm trying to use Emacs gnus to connect to my gmail account. This is the relevant configuration code, taken mostly from here: (setq tls-program '("openssl s_client -CAfile C:/Users/GGustafson/gmail.crt -connect %h:%p -no_ssl2 -ign_eof")) (setq…
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How to Configure Gnus in Emacs to Add Email Address to BBDB?

I am trying to change from Wanderlust to Gnus for email in emacs. Out of the box, it automatically adds email addresses of emails to BBDB. I find that this fills BBDB with too much garbage, emails that I will never want to write an email message…
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How to use Emacs Gnus on HTML mails containing UTF-8 characters with Lynx as HTML renderer corectly?

I use GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (but on never Emacs it does not working too) with Gnus v5.13 and have configured it as follows to use Lynx to format the HTML mails: (setq 'mm-text-html-renderer 'lynx) (setcdr (assoc 'lynx mm-text-html-renderer-alist) …
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