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is the flexible built-in message reader in Emacs. It supports reading and composing both news and mail. It can also use web-based sources as inputs for its groups.

Gnus is a news and mail reader. It can display messages from a variety of sources, called "select methods", including:

  • newsgroups from an NNTP server
  • newsgroups from a local spool
  • mail from a local directory (mbox, maildir etc supported)
  • mail from an IMAP server

A stable version of Gnus is included in Emacs. Gnus is developed in a separate repository, which is regularly synced with Emacs.

The Gnus manual is accessible from Emacs' Info facility, but can also be read online.

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How to use pdf-tools (pdf-view-mode) in emacs?

pdf-tools includes pdf-view-mode which offers several features not present in doc-view-mode (see end of question). Can pdf-view-mode be used as a replacement for doc-view-mode generally, or does it have to be "tool" by tool? In either case, is it…
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How to attach multiple files in `message-mode`?

To attach one file when in message-mode (e.g. when posting from Gnus), one does C-c C-a. What's the recommended way for attaching multiple files ? Repeating C-c C-a can become tiresome after a while, because it asks three questions everytime.
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Issue with nnmaildir in gnus

I've been trying to get nnmaildir to work along with mbsync (which syncs IMAP and Maildir mailboxes) and I just cannot get it to work with gnus. With the following select method: (nnmaildir "calgary" (directory "~/mail/ucalgary")) I can…
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How to make Emacs check my email and report new mail

I'm using GNUS to read my emails. Is there some way to make it automatically check my mail box and report new mails somehow? Maybe some package exists to do this sort of thing?
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Read and edit Thunderbird's maildir with GNUS

As forums tell it should be possible to use GNUS for reading maildir created by Thunderbird. I did not find, however, any working implementations posted. And in my own experiments I could not make GNUS to list groups (folders in maildir) to…
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Automatically add recipients' mail address to the BBDB database

I am using BBDB3 with Gnus. I want to make BBDB to update the recipient address in its database for each mail I send (just like Gmail does). Is it possible?
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send mail later in Gnus

I'm trying to find out if there is way to schedule a mail for later delivery in Gnus. I am not trying to just queue a mail to be sent whenever a connection becomes available, but I am looking for a feature to define a date at which a mail is to be…
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View buffers managed by other emacs instance

Is it possible to run gnus or other things that tend to frequently block in a separate emacs instance and "forward the buffers" to the main emacs instance. I guess more generally I am wondering what kind of communication between emacs instances is…
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How to protect myself from my own mistakes?

I use Emacs for programming and also read mail in Gnus. My problem is that I'm typing fast, switching buffers and Windows etc, and too often accidentally hit some key that is bound to some command that screws everything up. And I have no idea what I…
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Cannot edit a file as root if ~/.authinfo.gpg file exists

I got ~/.authinfo.gpg to store my multiple email accounts for gnus, but if ~/.authinfo.gpg exists, the tramp won't work. It will always say: Decrypting /home/chz/.authinfo.gpg...done Emacs won't even load the file into Emacs. If I remove that file,…
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How to learn to use bbdb?

that’s some time yet I began to use emacs as much as possible for quite everything (org-mode, Gnus, etc.), but I’m still maintaining a single file with a list of names, numbers, adresses, etc. manually… And I know there’s BBDB inside emacs, which…
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Gnus: Don't show negatively scored articles

I use a Gnus score file to mark certain Usenet articles that I don't want to read. For example, a line from my $HOME/News/name.of.newsgroup.SCORE might look something like: ("troll@example.com" -1000 nil e) When I enter the newsgroup, articles from…
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Gnus doesn't see mail, even though files are there

My message-directory is ~/.emacs.d/mail, this is where Gnus stores all my mail. Suppose I have a directory misc that contains some email in nnml format. I create a Group mail.misc, move directory misc under ~/.emacs.d/mail/misc. But Gnus doesn't see…
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How to sync the read history of Gnus between computers through Dropbox?

I try to read email and mail list with Gnus on different computer. I am able to sync the configure files through Dropbox and it works fine. But I don't know how to sync the read history. I am always get the read articles show as unread on different…
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Multiple process categories for Gnus

When I process emails, 90% of my messages are either deleted or archived. When I get a big backlog, I work through the list marking a batch, then archiving or deleting them (B del or B m), and then moving on to the next batch. If I'm in the middle…
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