Gnus for Noobs: Mail and News in Emacs

• Lionyx blog post about the emacs-solo stream:

  https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/emacs-solo-demo

• Check out Paul (Giacomo / fishinthecalculator) talk about hosting Forgejo in Guix using OCI containers!

  Video is not up yet but will be at https://www.youtube.com/@guix.social-rv9rg

• New Guix Course in Development

  System Crafters Guild members at 15/mo and above will have early access to in-development course material while I’m working on it (on the Forum).

  Join the Guild here: https://systemcrafters.store

Here are some notes from the stream:

(setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '((nnimap "imap.myserver.com")
        (nntp "gwene" (nntp-address "news.gwene.org"))
        (nnatom "xkcd.com/atom.xml")
        (nntp "news.yhetil.org")))

(setq nnmail-split-methods
      '(("mail.guix-days" "^Subject:.*Guix Days")))

;; Turn on adaptive scoring
(setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring t)

;; Start the daemon to automatically check email
(gnus-demon-add-rescan)
(gnus-demon-init)

Once you have this set up, you can run M-x gnus and then press ^ (caret) to see the entire list of news groups for the subscribed RSS feeds. Press u to subscribe to any feed to see it on your main groups screen.

Use M-g to refresh groups.

To reply to a newsgroup (or mailing list via nntp) message, use f.