Gnus Part 1

I’ve picked up something this time which I’ve always wanted to study properly – . The Emacs news and email reader. This is going to be a multipart episode since Gnus is so big. I don’t know how many exactly but as of now, I’ve got a 3 part thing planned.

Also, the hiatus was unexpected. Things should be smoother now.

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Comments welcome.

Summary

1. The gnus-select-method variable decides where to pick news from.
2. M-x gnus starts gnus.
3. g refreshes subsribed groups.
4. F looks for new groups.
5. ^ takes you into the server buffer.
6. RET will do different things depending on where you are. On a group, it will show you articles in the group.
7. t toggles topics in the Groups buffer.
8. L shows all groups (including ones with no unread articles).
9. l shows only groups with no unread articles.
10. c catches up a group marking all articles as read.
11. U is used to subscribe to a group.
12. Information on groups and articles in cached in the .newsrc.eld file which you shouldn’t delete.
13. Gnus uses .gnus as a startup file.
14. gnus-secondary-select-methods is the variable that controls sources other than the primary one mentioned in gnus-select-method. Mail sources usually come here.
15. The mail-sources variable specify where the mail backends should pick data up from.
16. The nnmail-split-methods function can be used to split mail depending on criteria like sender etc.

Further reading

1. The .
2. The for lots of tips and tricks.

Extras

1. The used to generate the mailbox.