Archive-name: gnus-faq      
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Last-modified: Jun 25 12:33   

                      Gnus 5.x Frequently Asked Questions
                                       

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Section Contents

• News Headers
• Introduction
• Table Of Contents
• Q1.1 What is the latest version of Gnus?
• Q1.2 Where do I get Gnus?
• Q1.3 Which version of Emacs do I need?
• Q1.6 How do I unsubscribe from the Mailing List?
• Q1.7 How do I run Gnus on both Emacs and XEmacs?
• Q1.8 What resources are available?
• Q1.9 Gnus hangs on connecting to NNTP server
• Q1.10 Mailcrypt 3.4 doesn't work
• Q1.11 What other packages work with Gnus?
• Q1.12 How do I make Gnus start faster?
• Q1.13 I've upgraded to 5.2 (or greater) and my hooks no longer work
• Q1.14 How do I specify the NNTP server?
• Q1.15 What is the difference between persistent and unexpirable messages?
• Q1.16 Does Gnus have MIME support?
• Q2.2 How do I quote messages?
• Q2.4 Any good suggestions on stuff for an all.SCORE file?
• Q2.6 I don't like the default WWW browser
• Q2.9 How can I make favorite authors be highlighted in the Summary buffer?
• Q2.10 How do I get multiple .signature files?
• Q2.11 Gnus and compression hooks
• Q2.12 Using Gnus and Other Packages
• Q2.13 Changing Mail and News directories
• Q2.14 Gnus colors have problems with my background.
• Q2.15 How do I customize the Sender: line?
• Q2.16 How do I customize the From: line? (or, how to fix a broken Message-ID:)
• Q2.17 Gnus says my .signature is too long and it isn't
• Q2.18 What replaces gnus-author-copy?
• Q2.19 How do I launch Netscape when clicking on an URL?
• Q2.20 Could I see someone else's ~/.gnus file?
• Q2.21 How do I use different headers for mail than for news?
• Q2.22 Base64 decoding and encoding appears to be horribly slow in Pterodactyl Gnus. What can I do about it?
• Q2.23 I don't want HTML to be automatically expanded in mail or news. What can I do?
• Q3.1 How do I convert my kill files to score files?
• Q3.3 How do I use an NNTP server with authentication?
• Q3.4 Not reading the first article.
• Q3.5 Why aren't BBDB known posters marked in the summary buffer?
• Q3.6 Cross posted articles aren't marked as read
• Q3.7 How do I read already read messages?
• Q3.8 Evil nntp
• Q3.9 Posting to foreign servers.
• Q3.10 Gnus hangs when I try to send a post to my news server. What is wrong and what can I do to fix it?
• Q4.1 What does the message Buffer has changed on disk mean in a mail group?
• Q4.2 How do you make articles un-expirable?
• Q4.3 How do I delete bogus nnml: groups?
• Q4.4 What happened to my new mail groups?
• Q4.5 Not scoring mail groups
• Q4.6 How to keep groups always visible
• Q4.7 Group renumbering
• Q4.8 Procmail and Gnus
• Q4.9 Getting new mail, but not new news
• Q4.10 Why can't I move articles?
• Q4.11 Using Gnus for mail and never news
• Q4.12 Compressed mail files
• Q4.13 Using an IMAP server
• Q4.14 How do I get mail from multiple sources?
• Q4.15 Can I read mail that was delivered by qmail?
• Q4.16 How and why would I use pop3.el instead of movemail?
• Q4.17 My splitting rules seem to miss a few messages. Why?
• Q4.18 What is the difference between total-expire and auto-expire?

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