Practical notes on using Gnus

Watch my video on how to set Gnus up, if you don't have it set up already!

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/ o – show all old (read) messages
/ a – show all messages regardless of status
/ p – match all articles with a pattern

https://superuser.com/questions/490581/easy-spam-block-in-gnus

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15703346/show-all-messages-in-gnus-with-display-all

Place cursor on mail: SD e

C-c C-f

C-c C-a (mml-attach-file)

K o Save an attachment
K e gnus-article-view-part-externally
K v gnus-article-view-part

K C gnus-article-view-part-as-charset
K E gnus-article-encrypt-body
K H gnus-article-browse-html-article
K O gnus-article-save-part-and-strip
K b gnus-summary-display-buttonized
K c gnus-article-copy-part
K d gnus-article-delete-part
K i gnus-article-inline-part
K j gnus-article-jump-to-part
K m gnus-summary-repair-multipart
K o gnus-article-save-part
K r gnus-article-replace-part
K t gnus-article-view-part-as-type
K | gnus-article-pipe-part

;; Attach files from dired to a Gnus Email
(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'turn-on-gnus-dired-mode)
C-c C-m C-a

S W – system wide reply with message Main One
S w – system wide reply with no message
R – reply with message below
r – reply without message
To change the position of the cursor in replies customize the
variable: message-cite-reply-position

C-x 1

N New message (unread)
O Old message (read)
R You've replied
A You've answered
! Ticked/starred (important)
d Marked for deletion
C Message has been cached
U Undecided (part of scoring/reading logic)

Alt-u – Clear marks from the current article
! Tick the current article (gnus-summary-tick-article-forward)
I.e. Mark message as important
? Mark the current article as dormant (gnus-summary-mark-as-dormant)
I.e. Ignore a message for now
A dormant article only appears in the summary buffer if there are followups to it
d Mark the current article as read without reading it (gnus-summary-mark-as-read-forward). To mark a message as unread use gnus-summary-put-mark-as-unread
k Mark all articles that have the same subject as the current one as read, and then select the next unread article (gnus-summary-kill-same-subject-and-select).
C Mark all unread articles as read (gnus-summary-catchup).
M C-c Mark all articles in the group as read, even the ticked and dormant articles (gnus-summary-catchup-all).
E Mark the current article as expirable (gnus-summary-mark-as-expirable)
M b Set a bookmark in the current article (gnus-summary-set-bookmark)
M B Remove the bookmark from the current article (gnus-summary-remove-bookmark).

Alt-u

CC – C-c C-f C-c
BCC – C-c C-f C-b

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/20675/send-mail-later-in-gnus
C-c C-j

delete the .newsrc.eld file – all customizations are lost

C-c C-d

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail

• Save the mail via C-x C-s and then exit it with C-c C-k
  
• When you look in your nndraft:drafts folder, you'll see it there.
  
• To edit, hit e on the mail
  

d / M-r
c – catchup – marks everything as read

G-c

gnus-large-newsgroup

R

m
C-x m (from anywhere in Emacs)

C-u SPC
C-u RET

C-c C-k

B DEL

B m

E – mark message as expirable
E - mark message as expirable
"If you do not mark an article as expirable, it will remain on your system until hell freezes over."
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Expiring-Mail.html

Shift-L

/ a – filters messages from a given author (gnus-summary-limit-to-author)
/ / – filters messages whose subjects matching a given regular expression (gnus-summary-limit-to-subject)
/ s – filters messages whose subjects matching a given regular expression (gnus-summary-limit-to-subject)
/ x – filters messages that match a given extra header, like To: or CC: (gnus-summary-limit-to-extra-headers)
/ t – filters messages at least N days old (gnus-summary-limit-to-age)
See also https://sachachua.com/blog/2008/05/emacs-gnus-searching-mail/

If you are satisfied that you really never want to see any new groups,
you can set 'gnus-check-new-newsgroups' to 'nil'.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/agyblv/gnus_question_on_gnuspermanentlyvisiblegroups/
G c, then check Permanently visible – always display this group, even when there are no unread articles in it.

To set it up with News do the following:
Create a config file called .gnus in your home folder.
Add your news server:
e.g.
(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gmane.io"))
You can also add secondary servers:
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
'((nntp "another.newsserver.com")))
Restart Gnus
You may also require an authentication file, typically .authinfo with a line like this:
machine news.newsserver.com login John password 15242@&6

Press L (uppercase L) in the group buffer

n - Move to next unread message
p - Move to previous unread message
next-unread-article – no keyboard shortcut. Use Emacs navigation keys.
j - Jump to a specific message by number
q - Return to the summary (list of messages)

SPC - Scroll down in current message or advance to next unread
DEL or Backspace - Scroll up or go to previous unread

Return to the group buffer by pressing q if you're in a message or summary buffer. Press g to refresh all groups and check for new messages.
If you're already in the group buffer and just want to update a specific group:
Move the cursor to the group/folder
Press M-g (or ESC g) to update just that group

If you want to go directly to a specific folder:
Press j in the group buffer
Type the folder name
Press RET

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