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Re: Need help customizing GNUs
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Matthias Mees |
Subject: |
Re: Need help customizing GNUs |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Nov 2003 22:44:50 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> wrote:
> I've just switched to GNUS from my old mail and news reader,
> but I'm having some problems getting everything how I want it, and was
> hoping people on this group would have answers to the following
> questions:
I suppose, basically you need some patience and a lot of spare time for
reading the manual ;-)
> 1. Changing the Organization: You'll notice that on this article that
> my organization is listed as Road Runner. I think GNUS saw that my
> cable modem is via Road Runner or something, but I'd like to change
> it. Does anybody know the variable I need to setq in my .gnus to
> change my organization?
I guess Gnus gets this from some config file. The variable to setq
should be `message-user-organization'. BTW: You can usually find out
things like that quite easily, just enter `M-x apropos <RET>' and enter
your regexp of choice for searching.
> 2. Signatures: I know there is a way to change signatures based upon
> the news group. Can anybody point me to a good resource on this?
<URL:http://groups.google.com>? Seriously - there's more than one way of
doing that. Probably the best point to start ist the Gnus Manual, which
you should be able to enter via `C-h i g (gnus) <RET>'. Yes, there's a
lot of reading ahead for you, but it'll pay :-) In the end, you'll
probably want Posting Styles, not just for this purpose :-)
> 4. I see people doing some nifty box thing. Can anybody point me to
> the function to do this?
,----
| Something like this? :-)
`----
That's a feature supplied by an additional package called
boxquote.el. There's lots of stuff like that available for Gnus and/or
Emacs at <URL:http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/ell.html>.
> 5. Is it possible to tell GNUs /NOT/ to expire my old mail messages,
> or -- better yet -- to archive them somewhere?
Erm. Gnus *does* /not/ expire old mail unless you tell Gnus to do
so. See <URL:http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_171.html>. Archiving your
mail depends on the mail backend you're using, but AFAIK it is
definitely not a problem. You can even split those messages into groups
to keep your mail archive tidy.
After all, it's Gnus. Everything is possible. :-)
> "I have finally found the One True Newsreader, and it is a glorious
> thing."
Erm. I suggest that you also take a closer look at the manual in terms
of signature-seperation... ;-)
Matthias