1 ;;; -*- mode: emacs-lisp; coding: utf-8 -*-
5 ;;; (c) 2009 Mark Wooding
8 ;;;----- Licensing notice ---------------------------------------------------
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24 ;;;--------------------------------------------------------------------------
25 ;;; General Gnus preferences.
27 ;; Divide the main groups list by topics.
28 (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)
29 (setq gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method 'gnus-subscribe-topics)
31 ;; Use hacky movemail program to move mail.
32 (setq mail-source-movemail-program "~/bin/movemail-hack")
34 ;; Don't force use of a full window.
35 (setq gnus-use-full-window nil)
37 ;; Honour character widths correctly. Otherwise the screen gets properly
39 (setq gnus-use-correct-string-widths t)
41 ;; Display a slrn-like tree view in the summary window.
42 (setq gnus-use-trees nil)
43 (setq gnus-summary-make-false-root 'dummy)
44 (setq gnus-summary-line-format
45 "%U%R%z%4L %(%[%-16,16f%]%): %&user-date; %B %s\n"
46 gnus-summary-dummy-line-format
47 " %(%[----------------%]%): * %S\n"
48 gnus-user-date-format-alist
49 '(((gnus-seconds-today) . "*** %H:%M")
51 ((gnus-seconds-month) . " %a %_d")
52 ((gnus-seconds-year) . " %_d %b")
54 (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-root ">"
55 gnus-sum-thread-tree-false-root ">"
56 gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-indent "="
57 gnus-sum-thread-tree-indent " ")
58 (if (memq (coding-system-get (terminal-coding-system) 'mime-charset)
60 (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-leaf-with-other "├─>"
61 gnus-sum-thread-tree-vertical "│ "
62 gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "╰─>")
63 (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-leaf-with-other "|->"
64 gnus-sum-thread-tree-vertical "| "
65 gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "`->"))
67 ;; Sort threads in a useful way.
68 (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
69 '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number
70 gnus-thread-sort-by-subject
71 gnus-thread-sort-by-total-score))
73 ;; Configure the crypto.
74 (setq mm-verify-option 'known
75 mm-sign-option 'guided
76 mm-decrypt-option 'never)
78 ;; Tracking available groups. These should work for sane servers, but maybe
79 ;; they'll need hacking in the local file.
80 (setq gnus-save-killed-list nil
81 gnus-check-bogus-newsgroups nil
82 gnus-read-active-file 'ask-server)
84 ;; Don't skip unread groups.
85 (setq gnus-group-goto-unread nil
86 gnus-summary-next-group-on-exit nil)
88 ;; Use one article buffer per group.
89 (setq gnus-single-article-buffer nil)
91 ;; Don't expand threads on initial opening.
92 (setq gnus-thread-hide-subtree t)
94 ;; Don't use strange icons instead of traditional smileys.
95 (setq gnus-treat-display-smileys nil)
97 ;; Fairly large numbers of articles are OK; don't bother warning me.
98 (setq gnus-large-newsgroup 500)
100 ;; When splitting articles, crossposting is a reasonable thing to do.
101 (setq nnimap-split-crosspost t)
103 ;; We may have the misfortune to talk to an Exchange server.
104 (setq imap-enable-exchange-bug-workaround t)
106 ;; Save articles in mbox format by default, of course, and save an entire
107 ;; batch with the same name.
108 (setq gnus-prompt-before-saving t
109 gnus-default-article-saver 'gnus-summary-save-in-mail)
111 ;; Clean up properly when closing the summary.
112 (defadvice gnus-summary-exit (before mdw-kill-debris compile activate)
113 (gnus-summary-expand-window))
115 ;; Configure article display a bit.
116 (defun mdw-gnus-article-setup ()
117 (setq truncate-lines nil
118 truncate-partial-width-windows nil
120 wrap-prefix (concat (propertize "..." 'face 'mdw-ellipsis-face)
122 (add-hook 'gnus-article-mode-hook #'mdw-gnus-article-setup)
124 ;; Don't expire articles on selection if they're alread read. This provides
125 ;; a handy way to prevent expiry, and actually forcing expiry isn't
126 ;; significantly harder.
127 (remove-hook 'gnus-mark-article-hook
128 'gnus-summary-mark-read-and-unread-as-read)
129 (add-hook 'gnus-mark-article-hook 'gnus-summary-mark-unread-as-read)
131 ;; Leave an oubliette level 7 for broken things which look like mailboxes.
132 ;; Otherwise Gnus keeps on resurrecting them and later realising that they're
134 (setq gnus-level-unsubscribed 6)
136 ;; Reconfigure the `nnmail-split-fancy' syntax table to be less mad.
137 (setq nnmail-split-fancy-syntax-table
138 (let ((table (make-syntax-table)))
140 ;; This is from upstream. I don't know what it's for.
141 (modify-syntax-entry ?% "." table)
143 ;; Email addresses are often wrapped in `<...>', so don't consider
144 ;; those to be part of the address.
145 (modify-syntax-entry ?< "(>" table)
146 (modify-syntax-entry ?> ")<" table)
148 ;; Email addresses definitely contain `.'.
149 (modify-syntax-entry ?. "_" table)
154 ;;;--------------------------------------------------------------------------
155 ;;; Magic for sending mail the correct way.
157 (defvar mdw-send-mail-alist nil
158 "An alist containing ways of sending email.
159 The keys are symbols naming mail-sending methods. The values are
160 alists mapping Lisp variable names to values which will be bound
161 around a call to the underlying `send-mail-function'. See
162 `mdw-message-send-it'.")
164 (defvar mdw-guess-send-mail-alist nil
165 "An alist for guessing the right way to send mail from a `From' address.
166 The keys are (Emacs-style) regular expressions. The values are
167 strings naming mail-sending methods, to be used if there is no
168 `mdw-send-mail-header-name' mail header.")
170 (defvar mdw-send-mail-header-name "X-mdw-Send-Mail"
171 "Mail header used to override the mail-sending method.
172 If a header with this name exists, then `mdw-message-send-it'
173 will look its value up in `mdw-send-mail-alist' to find out how
174 to send the message. The idea is that you can set this header
175 from `gnus-posting-styles'. The header will be stripped on
178 (defvar mdw-default-send-mail-method nil
179 "The name of the default mail-sending method.")
181 (defun mdw-message-send-it ()
182 "Send mail using the appropriate mail sending method.
183 Firstly, a mail-sending method name is determined. If
184 `mdw-send-mail-header-name' has a non-nil value, and a header
185 with this name exists in the message being sent, then its value
186 is used as the name. Otherwise, the email address from the
187 `From' header is matched against the named of the association in
188 `mdw-guess-send-mail-alist', and if any of them match then the
189 corresponding value is used as the name. Otherwise, the value of
190 `mdw-default-send-mail-method' is used.
192 The name is then looked up in `mdw-send-mail-alist' to find an
193 alist of temporary variable bindings; an error is reported if no
194 matching entry is found. The variables are temporarily bound to
195 their corresponding values, and the (possibly freshly rebound)
196 `send-mail-function' is invoked with no parameters.
198 If the method name is `nil', then `send-mail-function' is simply
199 invoked without doing anything else very special. This can
200 therefore be left as a useful default, if it's generally the
206 ;; Firstly, if there's an explicit header in the message, then
207 ;; we'd better use that.
208 (let ((method (message-fetch-field mdw-send-mail-header-name)))
209 (and method (intern method)))
211 ;; Look up the sender's address in the guess list.
212 (let* ((sender (some #'message-fetch-field
213 '("resent-sender" "resent-from"
215 (addr (cadr (mail-extract-address-components sender)))
216 (alist mdw-guess-send-mail-alist)
220 (setq assoc (pop alist))
221 (when (string-match (car assoc) addr)
222 (throw 'found (cdr assoc))))
225 ;; Otherwise use the default.
226 mdw-default-send-mail-method))
228 (method (and method-name
229 (let ((assoc (assq method-name mdw-send-mail-alist)))
230 (if assoc (cdr assoc)
231 (error "Unknown send-mail method `%s'."
234 ;; Bind the appropriate variables.
236 (mapcar #'car method)
237 (mapcar #'cdr method)
239 ;; Make a copy of the buffer and strip out our magic header. (If the
240 ;; message send fails, it would be annoying to have lost the magic
241 ;; token which tells us how to retry properly.)
242 (let ((buf (current-buffer)))
245 (message-remove-header mdw-send-mail-header-name)
246 (funcall send-mail-function))))))
248 (setq message-send-mail-function 'mdw-message-send-it)
250 ;;;--------------------------------------------------------------------------
251 ;;; Local configuration.
253 ;; Fetching news from the local news server seems sensible.
254 (setq gnus-select-method
255 (let ((server (mdw-config 'nntp-server)))
260 ;; Now load a local configuration file.
261 (load "~/.gnus-local.el")
263 ;;;----- That's all, folks --------------------------------------------------