Need help customizing GNUs

Need help customizing GNUs

[Dan Anderson]

        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:

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? 

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? 

3.  Emails: Is it possible to change the e-mail account used depending
on different options?  I want  to keep my business e-mail and personal
e-mail  seperate, and  keep an  account for  newsgroup /  mailing list
replies.  How  would I go about  doing this?  Also, is  it possible to
hit a few keys and change  the from and reply-to lines from the header
on reply?

4.  I see people doing some nifty  box thing.  Can anybody point me to
the function to do this? 

5.  Is it possible to tell GNUs  /NOT/ to expire my old mail messages,
or -- better yet -- to archive them somewhere? 

Many Thanks in Advance,

-Dan

"I have  finally found the One  True Newsreader, and it  is a glorious
thing."

Re: Need help customizing GNUs

[Johan Bockgård]

Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:

> 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?

message-user-organization. It's "Gnus", btw.

> 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?

The manual, (info "(gnus)Posting Styles").

> 3. [...] Also, is it possible to hit a few keys and change the from
> and reply-to lines from the header on reply?

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/GnusAlias
http://www.comsecmilnavpac.net/elisp/gnus-pers.el

> 4. I see people doing some nifty box thing. Can anybody point me to
> the function to do this?

Look for boxquote.el

> 5. Is it possible to tell GNUs /NOT/ to expire my old mail messages,
> or -- better yet -- to archive them somewhere?

(info "(gnus)Expiring Mail")

    This bears repeating one more time, with some spurious
    capitalizations: IF you do NOT mark articles as EXPIRABLE, Gnus
    will NEVER delete those ARTICLES.

Why did you think it would? (You're not the first.)

-- 
Johan Bockgård

Re: Need help customizing GNUs

[Harry Putnam]

Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:

> 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? 

Road Runner is doing it.

If you are on a unix like OS you can set the environment variable:
   ORGANIZATION=whaterver;export ORGANIZATION
   (in any of the bourne-like shells)
And gnus will respect that and insert `whaterver' in that header.

Re: Need help customizing GNUs

[Dan Anderson]

bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:

> Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:
> 
<snip>
> > 5. Is it possible to tell GNUs /NOT/ to expire my old mail messages,
> > or -- better yet -- to archive them somewhere?
> 
> (info "(gnus)Expiring Mail")
> 
>     This bears repeating one more time, with some spurious
>     capitalizations: IF you do NOT mark articles as EXPIRABLE, Gnus
>     will NEVER delete those ARTICLES.
> 
> Why did you think it would? (You're not the first.)

        Because the Gnus  tutorial I visited and the  part of the Gnus
manual  I  got  through (it's  so  big  that  I'm still  trying)  kept
providing caveats that Gnus is not  a typical mail reader, that is the
strentgh of Gnus, and changing that  will be an uphill battle at best.
One of the features they harped  on is expiration.  It seemed to imply
it.  Because of this I wanted to make *sure* I wasn't about to lose my
email after a week or something. 

Thanks for all of your help,

Dan

Re: Need help customizing GNUs

[Matthias Mees]

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