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12.1.5.5 Pterodactyl Gnus

New features in Gnus 5.8:

• The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.

  If you used procmail like in

  (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
  (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
  (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
  (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")
  

  this now has changed to

  (setq mail-sources
        '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
                     :suffix ".in")))
  

  See Mail Source Specifiers.

• Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
• Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
• gnus-auto-select-first can now be a function to be called to position point.
• The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in summary buffers and NOV files.
• gnus-article-display-hook has been removed. Instead, a number of variables starting with gnus-treat- have been added.
• The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a subtly different manner.
• New web-based back ends have been added: nnslashdot, nnwarchive and nnultimate. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with ever-changing layouts.
• Gnus can now read IMAP mail via nnimap.