From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Gnus (was: Re: Help setting up POP3 email (rmail)) Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:20:21 +0100 Message-ID: <877fhonz96.fsf_-_@debian.uxu> References: <87h9gth9cv.fsf@debian.uxu> <87si0cvi2g.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456705268 20558 80.91.229.3 (29 Feb 2016 00:21:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:21:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 29 01:20:54 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aaBa0-0007wk-7D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:20:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33072 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaBZz-0005x1-JB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 19:20:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38418) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaBZn-0005wZ-6G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 19:20:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaBZj-0000rf-H5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 19:20:39 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53022) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aaBZj-0000rX-30 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 19:20:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aaBZg-0007ok-Jy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:20:32 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-54.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.54]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:20:32 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-54.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:20:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 80 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-54.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CUe6QJp+XnHD1sWLWPqD9L79dj8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109360 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe writes: > Regarding Gnus vs Rmail, what's the difference? > Rmail uses multiple mbox files and Gnus use multiple > mbox files by default. They're both the same if > you're tinkering with mail using command line tools. Gnus is a universe in itself - much like Emacs, actually. It is a nexus for virtually all computer communication that you can do! - an absolute wonder to behold - one of the top 10 programs/systems ever written (with Unix/C and Lisp/Emacs as tied #1). I quick look at the Gnus manual isn't enough by far to grasp the scope: "The length of these documents varies from about 500 pages to about 550 pages, depending on which version of the manual you choose." [1] I'm right now using Gnus for RSS, Usenet (e.g., rec.bicycles.tech), mailing lists (thru Gmane), blogs (ditto Gwene), mail (backend nnml), as well as a Gnus-to-blog project I currently work on: Blogomatic! So far, I've not added any contents, only two test articles, but they work great - with zero metadata, and with HTML that validates perfectly, the files even sensibly indented and everything SEO'd with the category and title showing up lowercased in the URL. To add an article, I simply mail it to myself, then nnml does splitting to the group blogomatic iff the first subject word is - you guessed it - "blogomatic". Then I can use Gnus' sorting, searching, editing, and so on to access the material. Here is the zsh that does mail -> HTML: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/.zsh/blogomatic And here is the PHP - i.e., if executed, the blog: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic/index.php There is just an endless list what you can do with Gnus. For example, did you hear of: W r Do a Caesar rotate (rot13) on the article buffer (gnus-summary-caesar-message). Unreadable articles that tell you to read them with Caesar rotate or rot13. (Typically offensive jokes and such.) It’s commonly called “rot13” because each letter is rotated 13 positions in the alphabet, e.g., ‘B’ (letter #2) -> ‘O’ (letter #15). It is sometimes referred to as “Caesar rotate” because Caesar is rumored to have employed this form of, uh, somewhat weak encryption. W m Morse decode the article buffer (gnus-summary-morse-message). ? Here is what I did with Gnus so far, save for communicating: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/gnus/ [1] http://www.gnus.org/manual.html -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573