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#### 11.2.8.5 Pterodactyl Gnus

New features in Gnus 5.8:

- The mail-fetching functions have changed. See the manual for the many details. In particular, all procmail fetching variables are gone.

  If you used procmail like in

      (setq nnmail-use-procmail t)
      (setq nnmail-spool-file 'procmail)
      (setq nnmail-procmail-directory "~/mail/incoming/")
      (setq nnmail-procmail-suffix "\\.in")

  this now has changed to

      (setq mail-sources
            '((directory :path "~/mail/incoming/"
                         :suffix ".in")))

  See Mail Source Specifiers.

- Gnus is now a MIME-capable reader. This affects many parts of Gnus, and adds a slew of new commands. See the manual for details.
- Gnus has also been multilingualized. This also affects too many parts of Gnus to summarize here, and adds many new variables.
- `gnus-auto-select-first` can now be a function to be called to position point.
- The user can now decide which extra headers should be included in summary buffers and NOV files.
- `gnus-article-display-hook` has been removed. Instead, a number of variables starting with `gnus-treat-` have been added.
- The Gnus posting styles have been redone again and now works in a subtly different manner.
- New web-based back ends have been added: `nnslashdot`, `nnwarchive` and `nnultimate`. nnweb has been revamped, again, to keep up with ever-changing layouts.
- Gnus can now read IMAP mail via `nnimap`.