gmane.emacs.gnus.general

making more .newsrc.eld backups

2012-05-24T06:52:36

Gentlemen, these are not enough backups.
  /home/jidanni/.backups:
  -rw-r--r--   1 jidanni  119526 05-24 14:40 !home!jidanni!.newsrc.eld.~11811~
  -rw-r--r--   1 jidanni  119526 05-24 14:38 !home!jidanni!.newsrc.eld.~11810~
  -rw-r--r--   1 jidanni  119526 05-24 14:35 !home!jidanni!.newsrc.eld.~11809~
  -rw-r--r--   1 jidanni  119520 05-24 14:32 !home!jidanni!.newsrc.eld.~11808~
  -rw-r--r--   1 jidanni  119488 05-24 14:31 !home!jidanni!.newsrc.eld.~11807~
Because they are generated every time I hit "s".

Please tell me how to make 50 backups instead of 5?

Or tell me how to make a backup of .newsrc.eld to some other filename
every time I start and stop gnus.

Think of all the ways you could wipe out half your groups

2012-05-24T06:32:28

Think of all the ways you could wipe out half your groups.

The lesson is to backup your .newsrc.eld very well.

Problems trying to decrypt email

Luis Henriques — 2012-05-22T08:57:20

Hi,

Recently I have been trying to setup gnus to decrypt email, but
without too much success.  I'm not sure whether this is a gnus or an
epa configuration issue, or a bug somewhere.

Here's my configuration:

(require 'epa)

(setq mml2015-use 'epg)
(setq mml2015-cache-passphrase nil)
(setq gnus-message-replysign t)
(setq gnus-message-replyencrypt t)
(setq gnus-message-replysignencrypted t)
(setq gnus-treat-x-pgp-sig t)
(setq mm-verify-option 'always)
(setq mm-decrypt-option 'always)

To test it, I've used mutt to send an encrypted email to myself.
I can successfully decrypt this email in mutt, but not on gnus.  When
I access this email in summary buffer, I'm asked for a passphrase.
But then I get only this in the message buffer:

  [[PGP Encrypted Part:Corrupted]]
  [1. application/pgp-encrypted; signedkey.msg]...

  [[End of PGP Encrypted Part]]


Any ideas/suggestions?  What am I missing here?

Cheers,
--
Luis

Japanese translation of Gnus info manuals

Katsumi Yamaoka — 2012-05-15T23:51:38

Hi,

I've transferred gnus-doc-ja to git.gnus.org, special thanks to
Ted and Lars.  Gnus-doc-ja is a fully Japanese translation of
the Gnus info manuals, being synch'd with the Gnus head.  It
used to be in cvs.m17n.org having closed at April.  To download
it, do the same thing as Gnus[1] for "gnus-doc-ja.git".
Currently people who have write access to Gnus can modify it.
Fix, suggestion, and any improvement are welcome.

[1] http://git.gnus.org/

unlimit?

Uwe Brauer — 2012-05-15T08:08:34

Hello 

/a     limit the summary to certain authors. 
X      limit the summary to the unread messages 

etc
how can I undo these limits without leaving and reentering
the group.

Thanks 

Uwe Brauer

problems with gnus-posting-styles: groups.

Uwe Brauer — 2012-05-14T08:03:53

Hello

I tried to change my gnus-posting-style setting, the
following works as expected.

      gnus-posting-styles
      '(((header "To" "oub< at >mat.ucm.es")
 (name "Uwe Brauer")
         (address "oub< at >mat.ucm.es")
 ("Reply-To" "Uwe Brauer <oub< at >mat.ucm.es>"))
((header "To" "oub.oub.oub< at >gmail.com")
 (name "Uwe Brauer")
         (address "oub.oub.oub< at >gmail.com")
 ("Reply-To" "Uwe Brauer <oub.oub.oub< at >gmail.com>"))

however I now consider it better to change name, address and
reply to according to the group I am in, not according to the "To" headers.

So I tried 

(setq gnus-posting-styles
 '(("nnimap+gmail:INBOX" (address "oub.oub.oub< at >gmail.com"))))

And "nnimap+gmail:INBOX" is the name of the group in
question as (describe-variable 'gnus-newsgroup-name) found
out. But the setting did not work out as expected the header
looked like

,----
| To: 
| Subject: 
| Reply-to: Uwe Brauer <oub< at >mat.ucm.es>
| From: Uwe Brauer <oub< at >mat.ucm.es>
| Gcc: nnml+archive:sent-mail
| --text follows this line--
`----


I also tri

gnus-buffer-configuration and wide screens

Eric S Fraga — 2012-05-07T05:06:13

Hello,

I have recently moved to using a wide screen on my main
computer.  Unfortunately, it's not one that can swivel (I prefer a
portrait orientation to my monitors) so I am having to adapt to it.

Gnus provides the really useful gnus-buffer-configuration for arranging
the various buffers.  I have set mine up as follows:

(setq gnus-buffer-configuration
   '((group (horizontal 1.0 (group 1.0 point)))
     (summary (horizontal 1.0 (summary 0.6 point) (group 1.0)))
     (article (horizontal 1.0 (article 0.6) (summary 1.0 point)))
     (forward (horizontal 1.0 (message 0.6 point) (article 1.0)))
     (message (horizontal 1.0 (message 0.6 point) (article 1.0)))
     (reply (horizontal 1.0 (message 0.6 point) (article 1.0)))
     (reply-yank (horizontal 1.0 (message 0.6 point) (article 1.0)))))

This works quite nicely.  The buffer of interest is always the one to
the left of the screen where my eyes tend to focus first.

I have two questions:

1. The settings are quite symmetric except for one: the article is

flyspell in gnus

Richard Riley — 2012-05-06T21:12:35

I have flyspell mode on in new message buffers but flyspell is not
showing "on the fly" mistake hilights like it does in all my other
relevant modes. What do I need to enable? (latest magnus). Pressing f2
which I have bound to flyspell-auto-correct-word correctly shows the
relevant corrections for the word under the cursor despite it not being
hilited.

nnmaildir not updating new mail count

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen — 2012-05-04T12:23:09

Hello

I'm trying to get gnus setup to read my mail via the nnmaildir backend
(I'm syncing my maildir to my laptop using offlineimap, and want to read
the results of that).

It seems to be working reasonably well, except for one thing: When I hit
'g' in the group buffer, the number of new mails in the various folders
is not updated. When I list all groups, and hit 'M-g' when having
selected (e.g.) the inbox, it *does* update, however. Also, it appears
that something is happening when hitting 'g'; I can see the mails being
moved from the new/ dir to the cur/ dir.

So in short, how do I get the new mail count to update for all folders
upon hitting g?

I'm running gnus from git, with emacs 24.0.96 (i.e. the latest
development snapshot).

Hope someone can help; thanks in advance. :)

Cheers,
-Toke

P.S. I'm not subscribed to the list, so please include my mail address
in replies. Thanks.

Ma Gnus v0.4 is released

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen — 2012-05-01T21:59:39

The traditional (and almost late) May 1st release!

Get it by saying

  git clone http://git.gnus.org/gnus.git && cd gnus && git checkout m0-4

or download the release from

  http://git.gnus.org/cgit/gnus.git/snapshot/gnus-m0-4.zip

ChangeLog since last release:

2012-05-01  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen  <lars< at >ingebrigtsen.no>

* gnus.el: Ma Gnus v0.5 is released.

2012-04-28  Stefan Monnier  <monnier< at >iro.umontreal.ca>

* auth-source.el (auth-source--aput-1, auth-source--aput)
(auth-source--aget): New functions and macros.
Use them instead of aput/aget.

2012-04-27  Andreas Schwab  <schwab< at >linux-m68k.org>

* gnus.el (debbugs-gnu): Don't override existing autoload definition.

2012-04-26  Daiki Ueno  <ueno< at >unixuser.org>

* plstore.el (plstore-called-interactively-p): New compat macro copied
from message.el.
(plstore-mode): Use it.

2012-04-26  Daiki Ueno  <ueno< at >unixuser.org>

* plstore.el: Revive the editing feature.
(plstore-mode): New mode to edit plstore file.
(plstore-mode-toggle-display, plstore-m

Limits: Use default value from current article?

XeCycle — 2012-05-01T10:43:11

These limit commands are nice.  But they can be nicer.

What about using the default value from current article?  E.g. I
maybe reading my mails and found I need to look for other mails
From this sender.  Thus I type /a, and I need to enter his name
--- why don't we use a default value taken from the current
article, thus I simply need to /a RET.

Other commands could use this too, e.g. /t defaults to show
articles older than this one, /s defaults to show articles with
the same title as the current one.

Is this already available?  Or, did I miss something in the
manual?

etc/refcards/gnus-refcard.tex in emacs-24 branch

Glenn Morris — 2012-04-30T07:51:01

Hi Gnus,

I noticed that in the emacs-24 branch, etc/refcards/gnus-refcard.tex
still says it is for Gnus 5.11, when the Gnus version in Emacs 24 is 5.13.
Is there a newer version of the refcard to install?
(Or could the refcard version just be bumped, which is all that tends
to happen with the Emacs one...)
TIA.

General questions regarding the Agent and IMAP

Julien Cubizolles — 2012-04-28T11:26:53

I'm confused by some aspects of using the Agent and IMAP.

The articles I choose to fetch from the IMAP server with the agent exist
both on the server and as a local copy on my machine, right ?

If such an article is marked for expiry, is it deleted both on the local
copy and on the remote IMAP server ?

Also, I noticed that every time I hit g in the Group buffer, a new copy
of *every* unread and unfetched message on the IMAP server is added in
the Summary, what could be the cause ?

Finally, the total message count is completely wrong for the IMAP server
if I'm using the agent but that's not too inconvenient.

Thanks for your explanations.

Julien.

filtering mail from a group

Erik Colson — 2012-04-28T08:43:14

Hi,

How can I create some kind of search-group which would show only
articles from a specific group which were posted after a specific date ?

thanks
--
erik

Hangup on second article

Antoine Levitt — 2012-04-25T16:28:23

Hi,

I get a hangup whenever I try to select the *second* article in a
summary buffer (ie, I enter the summary buffer and press "n"). Using bzr
trunk emacs, with gnus from emacs. This is a relatively recent bug,
which I've had around in the past, but this time it's repeatable. It
only seems to happen on nntp. It's not related to network issues,
because once I C-g it once, I can browse around as usual without
problem.

Backtrace from toggle-debug-on-quit and C-g during the hangup:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit)
  signal(quit nil)
  byte-code("\302V\203\303\304\305\303\"\207" [tries gnus-async-current-prefetch-article 3 nil signal quit] 3)
  gnus-async-wait-for-article(323368)
  gnus-async-request-fetched-article("nntp+localhost:gmane.emacs.devel" 323368 #<buffer *Article nntp+localhost:gmane.emacs.devel*>)
  gnus-request-article-this-buffer(323368 "nntp+localhost:gmane.emacs.devel")
  gnus-article-prepare(323368 nil)
  gnus-summary-display-article(323368)
  gnus-summary-next-article(t nil)
  gnus-sum

some size calc error in pop3.el?

Sivaram Neelakantan — 2012-04-24T17:35:37

So, I was idly looking at the Messages buffer(yep, slow day) and see
this

Opening TLS connection to `pop.gmail.com'...done
pop3 retrieved 0KB (0%) [2 times]
pop3 retrieved 1KB (3%)
pop3 retrieved 5KB (13%)
pop3 retrieved 9KB (22%)
...
pop3 retrieved 42KB (103%)
Wrote c:/Documents and Settings/s/Application Data/Mail/sas-l/2440
Wrote c:/Documents and Settings/s/Application Data/Mail/sas-l/2441


What's with 103%?  Shouldn't it be 100%?  Just asking....

 sivaram
 --

Subscribe and unsubscribe through Gmane

Thorsten Jolitz — 2012-04-24T11:25:56

Hi List, 
this might a bit OT (and a rather newbie question):

I subscribed to a dozen mostly Emacs related mailing-lists through
gmane, i.e. by simply sending a first mail from gnus to the mailing list
and responding to the gmane authorization message within a week. 

Now I decided that I would like to use a more 'serious' email for all of
these groups and want to unsubscibe with my old email and subscribe with
my new one. 

And gnus should be aware of the change, i.e. use my new email
automatically for all posts I send to the mailing lists. 

Is there a simple way to do this from gnus like sending mails with 'Subject:
unsubscribe' from my old mail to all mailing-list and then do my next
postings with my new email, authorize, and gnus will know about the change?

Wide reply - sender adress in Cc:

Thorsten — 2012-04-24T08:43:43

Hi List, 
when I try a wide reply including the original to an email (S W), my own
(sender) email is listed in Cc: header field. 
Is this the normal behaviour, or do I have to configure something somewhere?

No way to make a given single article un-unseen !

2012-04-24T03:27:36

Gentlemen, in (info "(gnus) Other Marks")

   * Articles that haven't been seen before in Gnus by the user are
     marked with a `.' in the second column (`gnus-unseen-mark').

But ah ha, there is no way to reverse this going away for a given single
article! You have now seen it, and next time you enter the group its
unseen mark is gone, with no way to get it back for one given single article!
But why would you want it back? Don't ask such questions, just make
there be a way!

group buffer

Erik Colson — 2012-04-23T18:43:22

Hi,

Can I customize the group buffer to only show groups with unread
articles ? (and therefor hide those with ticked messages without unread
messages)

thanks
--
erik

Problem with html emails in maGnus.

Richard Riley — 2012-04-21T14:28:16

Before I try to figure out whats wrong, possibly someone can comment on
this when I read an html email? I get a backtrace and the html body
doesnt render.

,----
| Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments #[(url callback &optional cbargs silent) "\305\306\307
| \310\211&C\"\311 \207" [url-queue url callback cbargs silent append vector cl-struct-url-queue nil url-queue-run-queue] 10 ("/home/shamrock/bin/emacs-build/share/emacs/24.0.93/lisp/url/url-queue.elc" . 10490)] 5)
|   url-queue-retrieve("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/03/general/helpnav_de_01._V210853741_.gif" gnus-html-image-fetched (#<buffer *Article nnimap+riley:INBOX*> ("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/03/general/helpnav_de_01._V210853741_.gif" "*")) t t)
|   gnus-html-schedule-image-fetching(#<buffer *Article nnimap+riley:INBOX*> ("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/03/general/helpnav_de_01._V210853741_.gif" "*"))
|   gnus-html-display-image("https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon