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+NOTE Q: I noticed that it took a considerable amount of time to send email. Is it possible to configure gnus to use an external smtp client to send emails?
+
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 Okay, so first question.
 
@@ -60,6 +62,8 @@ Sometimes it's instantaneous, sometimes not.
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 So I hope that helps.
 
+NOTE Q: Is the dovecot workaround actually a solution?
+
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 Let's see, is the Dovecot workaround
 
@@ -91,7 +95,7 @@ I'll share this on IRC as well.
 Yeah, so Dovecot is very, very efficient.
 
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-It's written in C. And yeah, when you point Gnu's
+It's written in C. And yeah, when you point Gnus
 
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 to an IMAP server like Dovecot,
@@ -133,11 +137,13 @@ as my starting point a couple years ago.
 I will be writing an article on my personal site
 
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-to go over how to configure recent versions of Dofconn
+to go over how to configure recent versions of Dovecot
 
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 for such a setup, for a local setup.
 
+NOTE Q: Do you have experience with mu4e or Notmuch, and why would you say Gnus is worth using compared to these?
+
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 Let's see. Do you have experience with Mu4e or not much?
 
@@ -309,10 +315,12 @@ I'm glad that you found the presentation helpful
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 or somewhat useful. Let's see, new question.
 
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 Oh, and I will check IRC as well.
 
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+NOTE Q: At my organization, we're forced to use OAuth with outlook and they've also blacklisted all email clients except thunderbird (but they don't support it, only the webmail or the outlook app). Do you know if this is something that can be circumvented in Gnus?
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 Let's see, at my organization,
 
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@@ -381,166 +389,166 @@ this kind of authentication thingy.
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 If, you know, they check
 
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 the user agent header or something,
 
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 that's pretty easy to customize and set.
 
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 With Gnus, you can set, define a posting style
 
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 to set a custom user agent.
 
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 So, yeah, that's as far as I know.
 
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 Thunderbird is pretty nice too.
 
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 Like I reach out for it sometimes
 
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 when I'm in a rush or can't,
 
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 don't have the time to like set up Gnus with
 
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 like some new like IMAP server or something.
 
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 I reach for it sometimes, but yeah,
 
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 I primarily use Gnus. I see.
 
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 So the question says they tried it
 
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 with not much and it never worked.
 
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 Even KML on Android didn't work.
 
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 Right. Yeah, I'm not sure.
 
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 If you can like provide maybe more details
 
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 as to like what doesn't work
 
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 or if you get any particular error messages
 
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 or like how they're trying to like prevent you from using it,
 
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 then maybe folks could have some ideas
 
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 of maybe how to get around that.
 
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 Yeah. Let's see, I'm going to go
 
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 over and take a look at IRC. Yes, scoring is great.
 
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 In it for bankruptcy,
 
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 they have mail to use outlook from Gnus, right?
 
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 Yeah, there are various like solutions and workarounds.
 
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 Yeah, let's see. How's the schedule looking?
 
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 I think the next talk
 
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 is gonna start pretty soon, if I'm not mistaken.
 
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 Yeah, so I believe that's about all the time
 
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 that we have on the stream for the Q&A,
 
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 but of course I'll hang around here on big blue button
 
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 and IRC for a while if folks would like to ask more questions.
 
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 And also feel free to email me,
 
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 bandali@gnu.org
 
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 or at kelar.org with any questions.
 
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+00:10:31.540 --> 00:10:35.719
 Thanks again for the kind words folks, appreciate it.
 
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+00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:38.399
 Yeah, I myself also wish
 
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+00:10:38.400 --> 00:10:41.319
 that there were like some tutorials or something
 
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-when I was getting started with Guinness,
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+when I was getting started with Gnus,
 
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+00:10:43.680 --> 00:10:46.119
 but we didn't have that. So, and I've been meaning
 
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+00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:49.999
 to like record a talk like this for years for EmacsConf,
 
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+00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:53.039
 but yeah, funnily enough, after like 10 years of,
 
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+00:10:53.040 --> 00:10:54.919
 at my 10th anniversary
 
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+00:10:54.920 --> 00:10:55.879
 of being involved with the conference,
 
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+00:10:55.880 --> 00:10:57.999
 I finally put together a talk of my own
 
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 to talk about configuring Gnus.
 
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 Let's see. Oh, I see, I see.
 
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 So the organization is doing some kind of check
 
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+00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:41.239
 during setting up of OAuth.
 
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+00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:45.639
 So I think how that works is
 
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+00:11:45.640 --> 00:11:47.399
 sometimes these email clients,
 
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 I think at least this is the case for Gmail or something,
 
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@@ -579,6 +587,8 @@ You're very welcome again.
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 I hope you find it useful in some way.
 
+NOTE Comment: Liked how I started with a clean setup
+
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 So they say that they like the fact
 
@@ -705,10 +715,12 @@ or couldn't squeeze it into
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 the 15, 20 minute format for the conference.
 
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 Yeah. I'm going to hang out here for a few more minutes.
 
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+NOTE Comment: They would have liked to see a quick demo of Gnus while it is fully configured and tweaked
+
+00:17:34.660 --> 00:17:36.557
 Another comment, they would have liked
 
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@@ -744,6 +756,8 @@ I don't really do any of that.
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 For the most part, my setup is pretty simple.
 
+NOTE My init file
+
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 I can actually maybe show my init file here. Let's see.
 
@@ -780,10 +794,12 @@ and it's been marked as expired and it'll be moved into,
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 like for example, this yearly archive directory,
 
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+00:19:29.598 --> 00:19:34.079
 like archive. For example, 2025.
 
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+NOTE Mail splitting
+
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 Yeah, you can do like mail splitting,
 
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@@ -804,6 +820,8 @@ what field or what header
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 matches what regular expression.
 
+NOTE Gnus parameters
+
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 What else? Gnus has things,
 
@@ -867,10 +885,12 @@ of the headers that are displayed and the order of them.
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 Like I showed in the sample init file that I provided.
 
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-Games can integrate with Dired.
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+Gnus can integrate with Dired.
 
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+NOTE Custom signatures
+
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 You can set like custom signatures like here.
 
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@@ -882,23 +902,25 @@ and then I use it later in the posting,
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 in the posting, the news posting styles variable.
 
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 I set a signature to that. Yeah.
 
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+NOTE Other customizations
+
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 You can write custom like functions to move email around.
 
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 So I have this like Gnus chunk article function
 
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-that I bind to VS,
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+that I bind to v s,
 
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-so V is the prefix came up that I defined,
+so v is the prefix came up that I defined,
 
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-and then S, so you can do things like that.
+and then s, so you can do things like that.
 
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 You can customize the format of the topic lines,
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 GNU says machinery around like encrypting emails.
 
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 It has a bunch of customizations.
 
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-that you can configure and have Dynos behave a certain way.
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+that you can configure and have Gnus behave a certain way.
 
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 For example, when replying to signed or encrypted emails.