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Question 5.1: What are the basic commands I need to know for sending mail and postings? Question 5.2: How to enable automatic word-wrap when composing messages? Question 5.3: How to set stuff like From, Organization, Reply-To, signature...? Question 5.4: Can I set things like From, Signature etc group based on the group I post too? Question 5.5: Is there a spell-checker? Perhaps even on-the-fly spell-checking? Question 5.6: Can I set the dictionary based on the group I'm posting to? Question 5.7: Is there some kind of address-book, so I needn't remember all those email addresses? Question 5.8: Sometimes I see little images at the top of article buffer. What's that and how can I send one with my postings, too? Question 5.9: Sometimes I accidentally hit r instead of f in newsgroups. Can Gnus warn me, when I'm replying by mail in newsgroups? Question 5.10: How to tell Gnus not to generate a sender header? Question 5.11: I want Gnus to locally store copies of my send mail and news, how to do it? Question 5.12: People tell me my Message-IDs are not correct, why aren't they and how to fix it?
What are the basic commands I need to know for sending mail and postings?
Answer:
To start composing a new mail hit `m' either in Group or Summary buffer, for a posting, it's either `a' in Group buffer and filling the Newsgroups header manually or `a' in the Summary buffer of the group where the posting shall be send to. Replying by mail is `r' if you don't want to cite the author, or import the cited text manually and `R' to cite the text of the original message. For a follow up to a newsgroup, it's `f' and `F' (analog to `r' and `R'.
Enter new headers above the line saying "--text follows this line--", enter the text below the line. When ready hit `C-c C-c', to send the message, if you want to finish it later hit `C-c C-d' to save it in the drafts group, where you can start editing it again by saying `D e'.
How to enable automatic word-wrap when composing messages?
Answer:
Say
(add-hook 'message-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(setq fill-column 72)
(turn-on-auto-fill)))
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in ~/.gnus. You can reformat a paragraph by hitting `M-q' (as usual)
How to set stuff like From, Organization, Reply-To, signature...?
Answer:
There are other ways, but you should use posting styles for this. (See below why). This example should make the syntax clear:
(setq gnus-posting-styles
'((".*"
(name "Frank Schmitt")
(address "me@there.bla")
(organization "Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi")
(signature-file "~/.signature")
("X-SampleHeader" "foobar")
(eval (setq some-variable "Foo bar")))))
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The ".*" means that this settings are the default ones (see below), valid values for the first element of the following lists are signature, signature-file, organization, address, name or body. The attribute name can also be a string. In that case, this will be used as a header name, and the value will be inserted in the headers of the article; if the value is `nil', the header name will be removed. You can also say (eval (foo bar)), then the function foo will be evaluated with argument bar and the result will be thrown away.
Can I set things like From, Signature etc group based on the group I post too?
Answer:
That's the strength of posting styles. Before, we used ".*" to set the default for all groups. You can use a regexp like "^gmane" and the following settings are only applied to postings you send to the gmane hierarchy, use ".*binaries" instead and they will be applied to postings send to groups containing the string binaries in their name etc.
You can instead of specifying a regexp specify a function which is evaluated, only if it returns true, the corresponding settings take effect. Two interesting candidates for this are message-news-p which returns t if the current Group is a newsgroup and the corresponding message-mail-p.
Note that all forms that match are applied, that means in the example below, when I post to gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general, the settings under ".*" are applied and the settings under message-news-p and those under "^gmane" and those under "^gmane\\.mail\\.spam\\.spamassassin\\.general$". Because of this put general settings at the top and specific ones at the bottom.
(setq gnus-posting-styles
'((".*" ;;default
(name "Frank Schmitt")
(organization "Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi")
(signature-file "~/.signature"))
((message-news-p) ;;Usenet news?
(address "mySpamTrap@Frank-Schmitt.bla")
("Reply-To" "hereRealRepliesOnlyPlease@Frank-Schmitt.bla"))
((message-mail-p) ;;mail?
(address "usedForMails@Frank-Schmitt.bla"))
("^gmane" ;;this is mail, too in fact
(address "usedForMails@Frank-Schmitt.net")
("Reply-To" nil))
("^gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general$"
(eval (setq mail-envelope-from "Azzrael@rz-online.de"))
(address "Azzrael@rz-online.de"))))
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Is there a spell-checker? Perhaps even on-the-fly spell-checking?
Answer:
You can use ispell.el to spell-check stuff in Emacs. So the first thing to do is to make sure that you've got either
installed and in your Path.Then you need ispell.el and for on-the-fly spell-checking flyspell.el. Ispell.el is shipped with Gnus Emacs and available through the Emacs package system, flyspell.el is shipped with Emacs and part of XEmacs text-modes package which is available through the package system, so there should be no need to install them manually.
Ispell.el assumes you use ispell, if you choose aspell say
(setq ispell-program-name "aspell") |
in your Emacs configuration file.
If you want your outgoing messages to be spell-checked, say
(add-hook 'message-send-hook 'ispell-message) |
In your ~/.gnus, if you prefer on-the-fly spell-checking say
(add-hook 'message-mode-hook (lambda () (flyspell-mode 1))) |
Can I set the dictionary based on the group I'm posting to?
Answer:
Yes, say something like
(add-hook 'gnus-select-group-hook
(lambda ()
(cond
((string-match
"^de\\." (gnus-group-real-name gnus-newsgroup-name))
(ispell-change-dictionary "deutsch8"))
(t
(ispell-change-dictionary "english")))))
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in ~/.gnus. Change "^de\\." and "deutsch8" to something that suits your needs.
Is there some kind of address-book, so I needn't remember all those email addresses?
Answer:
There's an very basic solution for this, mail aliases. You can store your mail addresses in a ~/.mailrc file using a simple alias syntax: