2.17 Misc Group Stuff

2.17.1 Scanning New Messages		Asking Gnus to see whether new messages have arrived.
2.17.2 Group Information		Information and help on groups and Gnus.
2.17.3 Group Timestamp		Making Gnus keep track of when you last read a group.
2.17.4 File Commands		Reading and writing the Gnus files.
2.17.5 Sieve Commands		Managing Sieve scripts.

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Enter the server buffer (gnus-group-enter-server-mode). See section 6.1 Server Buffer.

a

Start composing a message (a news by default) (gnus-group-post-news). If given a prefix, post to the group under the point. If the prefix is 1, prompt for a group to post to. Contrary to what the name of this function suggests, the prepared article might be a mail instead of a news, if a mail group is specified with the prefix argument. See section 5. Composing Messages.

m

Mail a message somewhere (gnus-group-mail). If given a prefix, use the posting style of the group under the point. If the prefix is 1, prompt for a group name to find the posting style. See section 5. Composing Messages.

i

Start composing a news (gnus-group-news). If given a prefix, post to the group under the point. If the prefix is 1, prompt for group to post to. See section 5. Composing Messages.

This function actually prepares a news even when using mail groups. This is useful for "posting" messages to mail groups without actually sending them over the network: they're just saved directly to the group in question. The corresponding back end must have a request-post method for this to work though.

Variables for the group buffer:

gnus-group-mode-hook

is called after the group buffer has been created.

gnus-group-prepare-hook

is called after the group buffer is generated. It may be used to modify the buffer in some strange, unnatural way.

gnus-group-prepared-hook

is called as the very last thing after the group buffer has been generated. It may be used to move point around, for instance.

gnus-permanently-visible-groups

Groups matching this regexp will always be listed in the group buffer, whether they are empty or not.

gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist

An alist of method and the charset for group names. It is used to show non-ASCII group names.

For example:

(setq gnus-group-name-charset-method-alist '(((nntp "news.com.cn") . cn-gb-2312)))

gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist

An alist of regexp of group name and the charset for group names. It is used to show non-ASCII group names. ((".*" utf-8)) is the default value if UTF-8 is supported, otherwise the default is nil.

For example:

(setq gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist '(("\\.com\\.cn:" . cn-gb-2312)))