Gnus


 
 

Gnus is a message reader running under GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports reading and composing both news and e-mail. In addition, it is able to use a number of web-based sources as inputs for its groups.

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Gnus users find it pleasing to have a system which offers consistent interface between Usenet news and e-mail messages, not to mention the use of their favorite editor (X)Emacs for writing messages. The number of features Gnus offers probably outweighs that of any other Mail/News reader.

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Some Gnus features:

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  • simple or advanced mail splitting (automatical sorting of incoming mail to user-defined groups)
  • incoming mail can be set to expire instead of just plain deletion
  • custom posting styles (eg. From address, .signature etc) for each group
  • virtual groups (e.g., directory on the computer can be read as a group)
  • an advanced message scoring system
  • user-defined hooks for almost any method (in emacs lisp)
  • many of the parameters (e.g., expiration, posting style) can be spesified individually for all of the groups
  • Some people say there is no feature (or something similar) in any MUA Gnus doesn't have - or if there isn't one ready, it can be done "easily" with few lines of emacs lisp.

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    To quote the Gnus Manual:

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    :You know that Gnus gives you all the opportunity you'd ever want for shooting yourself in the foot. Some people call it flexibility. Gnus is also customizable to a great extent, which means that the user has a say on how Gnus behaves. Other newsreaders might unconditionally shoot you in your foot, but with Gnus, you have a choice!

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    GNU: :For the African animal gnu, see wildebeest....

    Emacs: :This article is about the text editor. For the Apple Macintosh computer model, see eMac....

    XEmacs: XEmacs is a text editor derived from GNU Emacs. It capitalises on good GUI support. XEmacs runs on almost any Unix-like operating system (inside X or on a text terminal), as well as on Microsoft Windows. It also runs on Mac OS X with an X server, and a native Carbon version is in alpha test....

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