Gnus
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Gnus, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Gnus's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Gnus | Free | No pricing or usage limits stated on the pages reviewed |
The facts
Each one read from Gnus's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- App coverage
- desktopchecked 20 Sep 2026
What it does
- Calendar tools
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Development versions
- The maker page points users to the Emacs Bazaar repository for leading-edge versions and the Gnus Git repository for bleeding-edge versions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Distribution
- Stable versions of Gnus are included in the Emacs and XEmacs editors.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The Gnus manual is offered in HTML, monolithic HTML, PostScript, and PDF formats, with illustrated versions also available.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Mail sources
- The manual documents IMAP and POP3 mail retrieval, including POP3 over SSL/TLS and StartTLS.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Message management
- Its stated goal is to provide an efficient, extensible interface for handling large numbers of messages from different sources and in different forms.checked 11 Oct 2026
- MIME and charsets
- Gnus is fully MIME-compliant and supports message charsets supported by GNU Emacs.checked 11 Oct 2026
- News and mail
- It supports reading and composing both news and mail.checked 11 Oct 2026
- News sources
- The manual describes reading news from NNTP servers or a local spool.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Offline access
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Other sources
- It can use web-based sources as inputs for its groups.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Gnus is a flexible message reader that runs under GNU Emacs.checked 11 Oct 2026
- RSS
- The manual describes subscribing to RSS feeds and importing or exporting subscriptions through OPML files.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Scheduled sending
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Security features
- The manual includes sections on signing and encrypting messages and on thwarting email spam.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support and community
- The maker site points users to mailing lists and newsgroups dedicated to Gnus.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
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