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gnus, gmail and mbsync..do i need dovecot?
Why is dovecot necessary?
Dovecot is not necessarily necessary; it depends on your setup, needs and preferences.
Can one just read a maildir directly into gnus?
Of course one can, using the ...
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Where's the gnus info manual on Ubuntu?
According to the package database, you can find gnus.info.gz in emacs24-common-non-dfsg and /usr/share/info/emacs-25/gnus.info.gz, along with a lot of other info manuals.
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How can I subscribe to SE RSS feed using Gnus?
I actually get a slightly different error on GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 4, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2018-02-03 with Gnus v5.13:
Contacting host: emacs.stackexchange.com:443
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GNUS - mark all articles in the thread as Unread
3.9.2 Thread Commands
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‘T k’
‘C-M-k’
Mark all articles in the current (sub-)thread as read
(‘gnus-summary-kill-thread’). If the prefix argument is positive,
remove ...
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GNUS doesn't show all Mails
See https://github.com/redguardtoo/mastering-emacs-in-one-year-guide/blob/master/gnus-guide-en.org#usage
Quoted:
"But I strongly suggest using C-u RET in order to see all the mails instead of ...
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How to view exported mail file with Gnus properly?
In order to visit a file containing emails, you need to create a
group from that file, which you can do with gnus-group-make-doc-group, bound to
G f by default.
See (gnus) Foreign Groups
for the ...
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How to prevent Gnus from querying the server during startup?
One way to achieve this is by configuring the user option gnus-activate-level, which defaults to 6:
Groups higher than this level won't be activated on startup.
Setting this variable to ...
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gnus to send html-formatted emails
It seems your problem is a simple syntax error: the xhtml content in question should be placed within the <#part ...> <#/part> tag pair inserted by mml-insert-part in order to be ...
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Gnus fails to connect to GMail AUTHENTICATIONFAILED
You need generate a password for your application only (Gnus, in this case).
See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833?hl=en
I finished setup for Gnus in 1 minute, even though I never use 2 ...
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Unable connect using gnus to gmail
This "quickstart guide" article you are following is probably outdated ; Here is a recent document about using Gnus using oauth2 with 2 steps authorization.
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how to make "old" articles behave as "new" in gnus?
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "disappear". If they are still around, but not visible, when in the actual mail group you can hit / o - which is gnus-summary-insert-old-articles, and all the old ...
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gnus viewer for attachments
So many questions at once.
emacs-27 will prefer ~/.mailcap entries to the system ones. See
Mailcap
precedence
for details. You can build the emacs master branch from source to pick up those changes.
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Send multiple emails using Gnus?
There is a easy and generic solution.
You are actually calling message-send which calls y-or-n-p to ask you confirm.
So you want to automatically answer "Yes" when being asked the question "Already ...
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Send multiple emails using Gnus?
As usual, Gnus has a configuration variable for this: message-shoot-gnksa-feet, which you can M-x customize to enable the multiple-copies feature.
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Separate auth-sources for Tramp and Gnus, or disable auth-sources for Tramp?
You can either use this (I base mine on the command-line arguments):
(setq tzz-gnus-running-p (member "gnus" command-line-args))
(setq auth-sources (if tzz-gnus-running-p
'("~/....
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How to protect myself from my own mistakes?
You can see what you've done with C-h l (aka M-x view-lossage).
As for putting a kind of "safety fence", it should be fairly easy to do, by placing an appropriate function of pre-command-...
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When can function not be redefined in init.el?
So can I put the code in my init.el somehow
You can, but at minimum you need to ensure that Emacs doesn't try to evaluate your modified code before either:
any prerequisites of that code have been ...
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Refresh/Update gnus Summary Buffer
What you want to do is M-g I think. It will get ride of the deleted articles. This shortcut is bound to gnus-summary-rescan-group.
Basically it will exit the group, ask for new articles then select ...
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Splitting mail with gnus
I tried something similar and the problem is this. When doing imap splitting, the splits go on the server side, not on the client side. So when you split gmail, the splits go to gmail groups. This ...
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GMail 2-factor auth without application-specific password
For those who find this question because of:
Warning: Opening nnimap server on gmail...failed: NO (ALERT) Application-specific password required: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833 (...
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gnus starting with an error message, even from emacs -Q - very strange
So the answer was trivial! If you don't set gnus-select-method, gnus looks for the default news server with the hostname "news". The machine where gnus was working properly was on a university network ...
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How to prevent Gnus from querying the server during startup?
Minor addition: even if you set all the groups' levels on the given server to something lower than gnus-activate-level, or do not have any subscribed groups on this server at all, Gnus will still ...
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Make gnus display inline html images by default
Maybe you're looking for gnus-blocked-images.
Note that displaying images which need to be fetched via a URL means that the sender can know when you're reading the message, so it introduces a serious ...
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Gnus: Applying splits to old messages
3 steps:
Select your mails:
M P b
Respool them:
B r RET RET
Be happy
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Gnus Inbox display read and unread emails
The visibility of articles in a group is controlled by its group parameters. You can use G p or G c when on the group in the *Group* buffer to change them. In this case you'd want something like
((...
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Gnus Inbox display read and unread emails
There is a clumsy distinction between "read" and "ancient" articles denoted "R" and "O" respectively. OP's report that
R. [ 5: -> abst.proc.do ] Re: Group Buffer
appears suggests he is ...
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How to ensure that gnus only check for new messages in my subscribed groups
Gnus scans only subscribed groups on startup. To find new groups you will have to explicitly invoke gnus-group-find-new-groups which has a keybinding F in the Group-buffer.
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Opening Gnus messages to the full height of the screen
Gnus's Window Layout management is quite powerful. And as always it gives full opportunity to hit ourselves in the foot. ;-)
I am not sure about completely removing the top window but definitely you ...
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